New House Digital Services Office seeks to fill gaps to modernize Congress

The House of Representatives Chief Administrative Office is close to adding another shared service to the 100 or so it already provides.</p> <p>These range from <a href=”https://cao.house.gov/about/business-units”>acquisition support to human resources</a> to finance and logistics. But the one area where those services were missing and sorely needed was around digital transformation.</p> <figure id=”attachment_4108481″ aria-describedby=”caption-attachment-4108481″ style=”width: 300px” class=”wp-caption alignright”><img loading=”lazy” class=”size-medium wp-image-4108481″ src=”https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/alan-thompson-300×300.jpg” alt=”” width=”300″ height=”300″ srcset=”https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/alan-thompson.jpg 300w, https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/alan-thompson-150×150.jpg 150w, https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/alan-thompson-112×112.jpg 112w, https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/alan-thompson-120×120.jpg 120w, https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/alan-thompson-240×240.jpg 240w, https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/alan-thompson-60×60.jpg 60w, https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/alan-thompson-70×70.jpg 70w, https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/alan-thompson-200×200.jpg 200w” sizes=”(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px” /><figcaption id=”caption-attachment-4108481″ class=”wp-caption-text”>Alan Thompson is…

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EXCLUSIVE: EPA Focused on Gender, Ethnic Diversity to Fill ‘Purged’ Advisory Posts

After the Environmental Protection Agency dumped advisers from regulated industries, the federal agency appears to have prioritized gender and ethnic diversity to replace them, EPA documents show.  The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia heard arguments Wednesday in the case of Young vs. EPA. The lead plaintiff in the case, Stanley Young, was ousted in March from the EPA’s Science Advisory Board weeks after President Joe Biden took office.  Young’s lawsuit identifies the EPA panels in question as the Science Advisory Board and the Clean Air Scientific Advisory…

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