Workforce and People

The newly introduced bill would force employers to give workers more notice of mass layoffs and would extend these protections to contract workers, who currently are excluded under state and federal law.

Brian Tardiff has been tapped as the permanent replacement for Bijay Kumar, who left the CIO and chief digital officer post in September 2022. He comes with experience as state IT department chief of staff and CISO.

State CIO Angelo “Tony” Riddick has announced his forthcoming resignation from the role after serving more than two years with the state. He will step down at the end of the month.

IBM is working with a private Christian university in Kentucky to provide no-cost training for STEM careers that involve IT and business, such as enterprise data science and building cloud-based mobile tools.

The FBI and third-party specialists are working to determine the contents of the released city data. Officials said the Feb. 8 ransomware attack was perpetrated by the threat actor group Play.

A new Connecticut bill in the General Law Committee would establish an Office of Artificial Intelligence and create a task force to study the emerging technology and develop an AI bill of rights.

Secure government requires a cyber-aware workforce. Doing it well means helping employees stay safe even outside of work, motivating them around the importance of security and fostering a culture where they feel safe reporting incidents.

The usefulness of artificial intelligence platforms — like the much hyped ChatGPT — stretches far beyond answering online queries and the private sector is putting the technology to work in a number of profitable ways.

Adam Garry, senior director of education strategy at Dell, says in a Q&A that schools could better prepare students by developing an ideal portrait of a graduate and moving to portfolio assessments instead of tests.

Colleges and universities in Pennsylvania have partnered with technology and aviation companies, engineering firms and other industry leaders to fill vacant positions in direly understaffed fields like cybersecurity.

Watch for transportation agencies and departments to begin looking beyond the cadre of civil engineers as they tackle social equity and previously unrealized challenges like extreme weather.

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence in the hiring process is behind a new proposal that would set up a framework that would require HR departments to test their AI recruitment tools for bias.

The state of Indiana is working to improve its workforce through a collaborative effort that spans across the public, nonprofit, private and education sectors to meet evolving workforce needs.

The Center for Digital Government’s Beyond the Beltway event returned in person to the Washington, D.C., area, where industry members gathered for a forecast on 2023 state and local government technology spending.

Jon Rogers, Indiana's director of strategic workforce planning, describes the State Earn and Learn program, which recruits participants from diverse backgrounds to spend a year at the Office of Technology and learn on the job.

Lingering changes from the pandemic. Economic headwinds. Ever-increasing constituent demands. Here are the major trends David Knox with Oracle sees driving government technology work in 2023.

Maricopa County, Ariz., CIO Ed Winfield is set to retire in early March, leaving CISO Lester Godsey to take over in a temporary capacity. The selection of a permanent replacement hinges on the county finding its next manager.

Chris Inglis, the first national cyber director, has officially left the position. Principal Deputy National Cyber Director Kemba Walden will step in as acting director.