Michael Wade Shrader

About have low digital literacy or lack it altogether, despite over 90% of jobs requiring it, and government agencies are no exception. Earlier this year, Congress introduced a bill, called the Digital Skills for Today’s Workforce Act, that would amend the decade-old Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to include a federal grant program focused on digital training.

Public trust in the U.S. federal government has been a challenge for generations. Just 21% of Americans trust the federal government to do what’s right most of the time, according to recent Pew Research Center data. This gap between citizens and their government is an opportunity for transformation. Many public sector agencies see open data initiatives as a cornerstone of rebuilding public trust. Once mandated to release information, agencies now aim to make data valuable and accessible.

It’s no secret that the intelligence community relies on digital communications networks to collect and share highly valuable information. However, agencies must prepare now for how quantum computing will disrupt encryption as we know it. Quantum computing is hard for most people to comprehend, and understandably so. It is a heady combination of math, computer systems, and physics at a subatomic level.