For two years, the Academy has taken great pleasure in delivering Management Matters to your inbox every morning. Thanks to input and contributions from our Fellowship, Management Matters has grown immensely in this short time. In response to the many requests from non-Fellows to be added to our Management Matters distribution list, we decided to open up subscription to the general public, in hopes of expanding the NAPA community and spreading the word about the valuable work that we do. Over the last two months, over 700 outside subscribers, primarily government employees, have joined the Academy community via Management Matters… Read More

March 2016 - Under direction of the FY2015 Commerce, Justice, and Science appropriations report, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reengaged the National Academy of Public Administration (the Academy) to conduct a follow-up assessment to the Academy’s 2014 report on NASA’s Foreign National Access Management (FNAM). Read More

February 2016 - The Federal Leaders Digital Insight Study, conducted by the National Academy of Public Administration (the Academy) in collaboration with ICF, is an annual report designed to survey Federal Leaders' perspectives about the pace with which the government is adopting, applying, and leveraging technological advancements in service to its constituencies. Read More

Visit our new website, www.napat16.org, for updates on the Academy's Transition 2016 initiative. This site features information on the initiative, blog posts, Panel products, and much more.  Read More

December 2015 - The National Science Foundation (NSF) Director and the National Science Board requested that the National Academy of Public Administration (the Academy) review NSF’s use of cooperative agreements (CAs) to support the development, construction, commissioning, and future operations of state-of-the-art, large-scale research facilities. Specifically, the Academy was asked to: Address how CAs are currently used at NSF, examining the effectiveness of NSF’s current CA policy; Compare the CA mechanism with other federal funding mechanisms; Ascertain how comparator scientific agencies manage similarly large, complex research facilities projects; and Identify potential improvements to the NSF’s processes that support large-scale research facilities. Read More