It's no secret: IT modernization investments are paying off in a big way, say tech leaders at federal agencies.

Phase two of the NSF competition wrapped up last week.

The National Science Foundation announced five winners Friday for the first phase of its Career Compass challenge — a competition to crowdsource ideas for technology solutions that will help federal workers plan for the changing nature of work. The winners, which described of tech-enabled solutions to help reskill and upskill the federal workforce, came from a pool