The impact of mobility and collaboration on IT modernization

Today’s technology innovation sounds like the perfect storm: millions of new mobile devices, a need for collaboration on sensitive documents, and an increased security concern. The set of events is forcing federal information technology professionals to respond with a more flexible and resilient approach.

Doug Jones, technical core competency lead for IT modernization at Leidos joined Federal News Radio to address these issues. He has been at the leading edge of working with a wide range of agencies to accomplish these difficult goals. He discussed some of the challenges with real-time collaboration and coming to grips with rapidly changing hardware.

Rapidly changing environments can be managed. In fact, Jones is quite optimistic in detailing how large organizations, like Google, can actually increase efficiency during rapidly changing technical environments. He addressed methods of handling scale and extensibility in unpredictable environments

The Office of the Future

We have a mission-critical NASA customer that we helped ... We had to provide Tier 3 on-call engineering support at all hours of the day because it's mission-critical.”

Douglas R. Jones

Technical Core Competency Lead, IT Modernization, Leidos

Mobility Challenges

It really comes down to changing the paradigm of security, looking at it differently. Looking at it in a data-centric model and a role-based model.

Douglas R. Jones

Technical Core Competency Lead, IT Modernization, Leidos

The MGT Act

Their goal for their SREs is no more than 50% toil. And the reason why they have that is, the other 50% of the time, their SREs are doing projects to eliminate toil, and then do new capabilities and enhancements.

Douglas R. Jones

Technical Core Competency Lead, IT Modernization, Leidos

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Doug Jones is a recognized expert in IT and Application Modernization and currently leads Leidos’ Enterprise IT Modernization capabilities. His team is focused on delivering mission-centric solutions in cloud, DevOps, mobility, and other key modernization technologies. With 15 years of leadership in complex, full-lifecycle government system integrations, he offers particular expertise in complex system development, transition to operations, and operations and maintenance. He also sits on Leidos’ corporate technology council to help shape the next generation of innovations and solutions. Mr. Jones holds both a Bachelor’s of Science in Materials Science & Engineering and Bachelors of Arts in Public Policy & Technology from North Carolina State University and a Masters in Systems Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

John Gilroy has been a member of the Washington D.C. technology community for over twenty years. In 2007 he began weekly interviews on Federal News Radio called “Federal Tech Talk with John Gilroy.” His 428 interviews provides the basis for profitable referral business. In 2009 he created a successful breakfast club of previous radio guests called The Technology Leadership Roundtable. He has been instrumental in two of his guests forming their own radio shows: Derrick Dortch with “Fed Access” and Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm with “Women in Washington.”

In 2011 he began teaching a course in social media marketing at Georgetown University; in March of 2014, John won the Tropaia Award for Outstanding Faculty. John conducts monthly corporate training for large companies on how to leverage social media to generate revenue.

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The impact of mobility and collaboration on IT modernization

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