Cloud Security

The agency expects to have all its grants assistance programs available through the FEMA GO platform by April 2024.

One of the best ways to minimize a data breach is to reduce the amount of data sent back over potentially unsecured networks, like wireless. That requires a rebalancing of the three main components of edge computing: storage, network and compute.

Casey Cook, the cloud architecture branch chief for the Agriculture Department, said seven mission areas are taking advantage of more than 300 APIs to make data sharing among new and legacy systems easier.

The Pentagon says the priorities for DEOS are to develop, deliver and maintain the classified DOD O365 platform, and continue ongoing sustainment of the unclassified joint environment.

Deep in the weeds of agency management, you find something called the FITARA scorecard. FITARA stands for Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act. It became law in 2015. Twice each year, agencies receive a scorecard from Congress on how they did managing their IT activities. Now a team, under the IT trade group ACT-IAC, has come up with a list of recommendations for revising the FITARA scorecard.

Possessing the ability to move data from anywhere to anywhere with a single platform to feed analytic processes enables government organizations to achieve missions faster and more strategically than before.

A primary benefit for edge computing is reducing the dependency on networks, a costly element both in terms of bandwidth and time. By moving the compute closer to the data, analysis can be performed on location, allowing just the results to be transmitted back across the network.

Lauren Knausenberger, the outgoing chief information officer of the Air Force, said if requested funding for fiscal 2024 comes through as hoped for, several transformation initiatives will get a much needed boost.