IT Modernization
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The $200 million in American Rescue Plan funds made the U.S. Digital Service less accountable and more dysfunctional; Congress should take back the money, overhaul the office and set it up for long term success.
June 02, 2023 -
Poor CX can have a negative impact on the government as well. Especially if citizens need to make repeated inquiries or complaints to resolve issues, leading to additional staff time and resources being required.
June 01, 2023 -
The Pentagon has cancelled its replacement for the Defense Travel System (DTS) after five years of development and tens of millions of dollars in spending. The system, MyTravel, will end in September, and employees will revert back to using DTS for the foreseeable future.
June 01, 2023 -
VA Chief of Staff Tanya Bradsher, President Joe Biden’s nominee to serve as deputy VA secretary, told the Senate VA Committee on Wednesday that the VA will only resume go-lives of the Oracle-Cerner EHR "when it is fully ready," and shows improvement at the five VA sites already using it.
May 31, 2023 -
DHS is reshaping its approach to technology by focusing on more agile, iterative projects, and reducing its reliance on big system integrators.
May 31, 2023 -
It’s time to demand more of the technology government uses every day.
May 31, 2023 -
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.
May 31, 2023 -
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.
May 30, 2023 -
NTIA is seeking a big budget boost this year, and some lawmakers want to bolster the agency's authorities over issues ranging from federal spectrum management to artificial intelligence accountability.
May 29, 2023 -
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.
May 29, 2023 -
Now one year after the tumultuous TSP update last June, recent changes to My Account show FRTIB’s goal of slow but steady improvements for participants.
May 29, 2023 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs is ramping up IT spending across several major projects, but those contracting dollars are increasingly concentrated amongst a handful of large companies.
May 26, 2023 -
This week on Accelerating Government, host Dave Wennergren talks with more winners of ACT-IAC’s 2023 Innovation Awards and a leading industry voice on innovation.
May 26, 2023 -
Arlene Joyner, the deputy assistant secretary and director of the Office of Industrial Base Management and Supply Chain for the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services, said data initiatives are helping understand where supply chain shortages are happening.
May 25, 2023 -
The NIST project is evolving as agencies look to more quickly adopt software while complying with security and privacy frameworks.
May 24, 2023