Personnel for both the Internal Revenue Service and the Government Accountability Office have acknowledged recently that the IRS is riddled with outdated hardware and software. Can the agency adapt?
The DoD unquestionably establishes robust and comprehensive PM frameworks. However, with increasing competition and accelerating disruptions from new technology, market shifts, and social change, it is essential for organizations worldwide to perpetually adapt — and the DoD is no different.
The Department of Defense’s scheduled takeover of its security clearance investigations from the National Background Investigations Bureau may only add to the clearance backlog rather than alleviate it.
A government backlog of 700,000 security clearance reviews has led agencies like the Defense Department to inadvertently issue interim passes to criminals — even rapists and killers — prompting calls for better and faster vetting of people with access to the nation’s secrets.
During the 2017 Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, bug bounty program managers with three major companies – Indeed, Salesforce and Silent Circle – offered some advice to organizations standing up a program for the first time.