IT Modernization
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In part 2 of his column about category management, IBM’s Tim Wood details how agencies can get started.
July 25, 2017 -
Tim Wood, vice president and partner for the Supply Chain Management Practice, IBM Global Business Services, details how agencies can take advantage of the concept of cognitive category management to save money and drive efficiencies.
July 24, 2017 -
Near-weekly, worldwide cybersecurity threats underscore the importance of network, end-point, and application monitoring. Federal agencies have worked under a policy of continuous monitoring/continuous diagnostics and mitigation for a decade. But given the seemingly unending growth in attack vectors, the spread of internal infrastructure to commercial cloud providers, and the rise of insider threats – they’ve got to up the game into what might be called advanced cyber monitoring.
July 05, 2017 -
Two months after the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act implementation, the DATA Act is proving to not only be a source of financial accountability, but a beacon, platform, and self-help tool for managing government.
June 30, 2017 -
Eric Jeanmaire, the branch chief for the Verification IT Portfolio Modernization at USCIS in the Homeland Security Department, said moving to an agile approach to development delivered capabilities more quickly and more successfully.
June 30, 2017 -
In just over seven years, agencies have submitted more than 149,000 data sets to the data.gov portal. Of those, the Commerce and Interior departments account for more than 110,000 of them.
June 23, 2017 -
The federal government may be a step behind industry when it comes to IT, but it's always the same step. It stays in the race, never quite catching up.
June 22, 2017 -
The White House kicked off tech week by hosting 18 private sector technology leaders from companies such as Amazon, Apple and Google at the American Technology Council meeting.
June 20, 2017 -
Scott Buchholz, chief technology officer for Deloitte Consulting LLP's Federal Government practice, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the company's 2017 report on technology trends and their impact on federal government operations. June 13, 2017
June 12, 2017 -
One way Congress might improve is if it upgraded the way in which it communicates to the public. Congressional agencies like the Government Accountability Office and the Government Publishing Office have made tangible modernizing strides in recent years.
June 08, 2017 -
The Office of Management and Budget and new White House Office of American Innovation are working together on a 90-day sprint to develop a series of work streams on a variety of topics. Teams will recommend new ideas on ways to improve shared services mechanisms, the Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) policy and federal hiring process.
June 07, 2017 -
Rob Klopp spent two years as the Social Security Administration’s chief information officer and brought the agency into the modern technology era.
June 02, 2017 -
Cameron Chehreh, the chief operating officer, chief technology officer and vice president at Dell EMC Federal, said hybrid cloud, micro-services and as-a-service buying models are key to enabling agencies to move off of legacy IT systems.
June 01, 2017 -
The House recently passed the Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act. The Senate is now considering it and Congressman Will Hurd, the author of the bill, said recently he’s confident the upper chamber will move on the bill.
May 31, 2017 -
President Donald Trump’s budget request sent to Congress May 23 calls for an increase of $1.6 billion for federal technology programs and projects.
May 24, 2017