Weekly Roundup: October 12-16, 2020

Submitted by on Fri, 10/16/2020 - 13:24

Michael J. Keegan

Announcing the Center’s Challenge Grant Competition Recipients

Submitted by on Thu, 10/15/2020 - 10:25

Earlier this year, our Center welcomed proposals describing how existing and emerging technologies will transform how government works and delivers services to the public in light of the impact of COVID-19.  We received many proposals on the thee topics outlined in the request:  1) changing nature of work, 2) reimagining how government delivers services and products to the public, and 3) managing risk and building resilience.

Resilience is Local

Submitted by on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 17:00

In the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, there were hot spots in Seattle, Washington and Cook County Jail in Chicago. But, by the middle of April, the country’s biggest hot spot was a giant Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, S.D., an operation employing 3,700 people. Reports of cases began trickling in and then became a torrent.

Harry Bader

Submitted by on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 11:26

Harry Bader is the Acting Executive Director of the U.S. Global Development Lab. Prior to joining the Lab, Bader was a professor of environmental and polar security studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Weekly Roundup: October 5-9, 2020

Submitted by on Fri, 10/09/2020 - 00:39

Michael J. Keegan

Lawsuit upends $4B DHS software buy. A push to buy a modernized DHS financial management system is being held up by another court battle, one that threatens to again upend a project that already suffers from a long history of failure.

Should Government Reorganize Itself?: Virtual Agencies (Part IV)

Submitted by on Thu, 10/08/2020 - 14:59

When Vice President Gore’s reinventing government team was being formed in the early 1990s, he encouraged it to not focus on reorganizing agencies and programs, but rather to fix what’s inside the agencies.  He also advocated the creation of “virtual agencies.”  At the time, no one really understood what he was talking about, but today – with the technologies now available – it is really possible.

Should Government Reorganize Itself?: Presidential Reorganization Authority (Part II)

Submitted by on Thu, 10/08/2020 - 14:54

What Is Presidential Reorganization Authority?

Beginning in 1932, presidents were periodically granted authority by Congress to submit plans to reorganize agencies.  Over time, it became increasingly limited in scope and when this authority expired in 1984, presidents since then have not asked for it to be renewed, until now.

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