Tag: U.S. Government (USG)
Mr. Larry A. Hisle, the executive director of the Greater Kansas City Federal Executive Board (FEB), spoke about the many, many programs of the Greater Kansas City FEB during the InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture conducted Nov. 26, 2019, in the Lewis and Clark Center’s Arnold Conference Room. Hisle briefly touched on the FEB’s history before diving into it’s […]
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The National Academy of Public Administration recently published a book concerning the role of the Senior Executive Service (SES) nearly forty years after the SES was created. Building a 21st Century Senior Executive Service is the result of a November 2014 Brookings Institution summit that focused on modernizing the SES. The book is a collection of perspectives on […]
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On May 23 and 24, 9,000 government, private sector, and civil society representatives gathered in Istanbul, Turkey, for the World Humanitarian Summit. Participants included representatives from 173 United Nations (UN) member states and 55 heads of state and government, as well as thousands from the private sector, civil society, and non-governmental organizations. With an estimated […]
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Last week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson met with the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) where he spoke about various homeland security issues and announced the appointment of two new members to the HSAC. In his remarks, Johnson spoke about the future of the department as his time as Secretary draws to a […]
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On May 7, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced the appointment of four new members to the Homeland Security Advisory Council…
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In early March, the Center for Strategic & International Studies published a report outlining their recommendations to Congress in regard to cyber threat information sharing between the government and the private sector…
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The Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton recently released Building the Enterprise: Nine Strategies for a More Integrated, Effective Government, a new report designed to assist the Obama administration’s efforts to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the federal government…
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In a recent Excellence in Government podcast, Admiral Thad Allen, former Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, and Ron Sanders, formerly of the U.S. Intelligence Community, spoke about the need for “enterprise leaders” in government…
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In February 2013, the White House released the Presidential Policy Directive on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience, which promotes unity of effort to strengthen and maintain secure and resilient critical infrastructure, and tasks government entities with securing critical infrastructure…
... Read MoreOn February 12, the Obama Administration released their Executive Order for improving critical infrastructure cybersecurity…
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