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The Energy Department will soon launch machines capable of completing a quintillion calculations a second.

Critical Update: The Programmers of Public Service metamorworks/iStock.com email April 20, 2021 09:00 AM ET Meet two federal software developers: One at the start of their career and the other nearing the end. Federal agencies rely on IT systems to meet their missions, and those IT systems rely on federal employees to remain functional. Too often, the conversation around software development at federal agencies tends toward innovation shops like the U.S. Digital...

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Electromagnetic pulses are frequently boogeymen in pop culture but the federal government takes real steps to prepare for them.

Critical Update: Why Having Artificial Intelligence Talent is a National Security Issue Ryzhi/Shutterstock.com email December 29, 2020 Dr. José-Marie Griffiths discusses her work crafting workforce recommendations for Congress as part of her work with the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. Despite the plethora of exciting artificial intelligence projects powering digital transformation across federal agencies, attracting and incorporating ...

Critical Update: Did COVID-19 Push More Agencies Into the Cloud? Singkham/Shutterstock.com email December 15, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting mass telework means agencies must have moved more data, workloads and services into the cloud. Right? The COVID-19 pandemic moved a lot of federal employees from agency offices to home offices this year, requiring remote, cloud services so they could keep doing their jobs. But the federal cloud journey has been sl...