IT Modernization
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The General Services Administration told the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations that its 18F organization fixed many of its initial start-up problems and almost broke even in 2019.
March 09, 2020 -
Joe Klimavicz, who retired after six years as the Justice Department CIO, said during his tenure the agency has significant strides in modernizing technology and providing improved services.
March 06, 2020 -
House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations members want to hold agencies accountable for their slow pace in moving to the enterprise infrastructure solutions (EIS) contract.
March 05, 2020 -
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told members at a hearing Tuesday that continued investment in the IRS’ IT modernization remains critical to “bring the IRS into the modern world.”
March 04, 2020 -
This program provides a progress report on IT modernization in government.
March 02, 2020 -
Aptima Chairman and CEO Daniel Serfaty and chief scientist Jared Freeman joined host John Gilroy this week to discuss artificial intelligence and how it can be used to help people overcome the deluge of data that is everywhere.
March 02, 2020 -
In their quest to better infuse operations with data analytics, two agencies are at adjacent stages of this new discipline.
February 27, 2020 -
Robotic process automation as a way of improving operations and freeing people's time up for higher value work has taken hold at the General Services Administration’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer.
February 25, 2020 -
Jason Gray, the Education Department’s chief information officer, said fixing long-standing problems like laptops that took 20-to-40 minutes to boot up and log in and printer sprawl helped lay the groundwork for the next set of initiatives.
February 21, 2020 -
The intelligence community and the Defense Logistics Agency have their eyes set on emerging technology this year, but they're focused first on improving some of the basics.
February 20, 2020 -
Multi-state IT collaboration efforts are on the rise as Arkansas and Oklahoma forge a unique cross boundary data center collocation initiative. Arkansas' CTO managed through the governor's reorganization of 45 cabinet departments down to 15.
February 20, 2020 -
AppGate Federal Group President Greg Touhill joined host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss Zero Trust, cybersecurity and how to reduce the attack surface for federal information technology.
February 19, 2020 -
The departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Treasury, Labor and Education and the U.S. Agency for International Development asked Congress in their fiscal 2021 budget requests to use money saved from other programs for IT modernization initiatives.
February 17, 2020 -
The General Services Administration says the number of help desk calls about the beta.sam.gov website is at or below the levels that came in for the old site. Some contractors, however, say the new site continues to struggle and remains frustrating to many.
February 17, 2020 -
Mark McIntyre, chief security adviser, at Microsoft's Cybersecurity Solutions Group, joins John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss DoD's CMMC initiative and shares some of his insights on cybersecurity and large federal systems.
February 13, 2020