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Public service bravery: Michael Lewis' The Premonition shows what it takes to fight a pandemic
In The Premonition, as he tends to do, Michael Lewis turns everyday people willing to tell us what we need to hear at a critical societal moment into a cast of characters we can't help but cheer on, but also leave wishing the world had more brave voices such as these.
Open security controls: NIST officially releases OSCAL 1.0.0
The National Institute of Standards and Technology officially released Open Security Controls Assessment Language 1.0.0, a federal government effort to standardize authorization packages and streamline security reviews using a common machine-readable language.
Register for the government 2021 User Experience Summit
The U.S. federal government's user experience community of practice is hosting a three-day virtual UX summit June 22-24.
Buy this book: 'A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide'
Cyd Harrell's "A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide" is the book we've always needed, but wouldn't have been possible until now thanks in no small part to the unparalleled experience she's accrued over the years working at Code for America, 18F, California Administrative Office of the Courts, and other service design-focused environments inside and outside of public service.
Space Force outlines its vision for a digital service
The U.S. Space Force has outlined its vision for a digital service.
In-Q-Tel wants to talk to people interested in open source software and national security
In-Q-Tel, the innovation and venture arm of the U.S. intelligence community, has published several open source themed posts recently, including "Toward Secure Code Reuse" and, most recently, one about GitGeo, a tool it developed that analyzes the geography of developers associated with a GitHub repository.