IT Modernization
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The Second Generation Information Technology (2GIT) blanket purchase agreements (BPAs) includes five line items such as data center, end user and network products.
November 05, 2019 -
Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer, managing partners and principal analysts at Cognilytica, joined host John Gilory on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss artificial intelligence and whether it will create or eliminate jobs in the federal government.
November 05, 2019 -
For an update on this multi-year project, Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Bill Tinston, the program executive officer at the Defense Healthcare Management Systems office, and Air Force Maj. Gen. Lee Payne, a physician and assistant director for combat support at DHA.
November 01, 2019 -
The Veterans Health Administration's Innovation Ecosystem is bigger than ever, and employees are still eager to pitch their own ideas -- even when the funding needed to grow those ideas isn't always guaranteed.
October 31, 2019 -
Chris Tucker, chairman of the American Geographical Society and author of "A Planet of 3 Billion," discusses some of the current trends in getting data from satellites to the ground.
October 29, 2019 -
OMB, the CIO Council and GAO are revamping the FITARA scorecard to include metrics around citizen services, customer satisfaction and mission delivery.
October 28, 2019 -
The Army says it will put the lion's share of its enterprise network modernization money toward the 40 to 45 bases it sees as its most important "power projection platforms" over the next four years. Upgrades at its more than 200 other installations are likely to be much slower.
October 28, 2019 -
OMB acting director Russ Vought highlighted the lack of funding as one of several decisions by the Senate that will impact agencies in the fiscal 2020 consolidated spending bill.
October 25, 2019 -
Emily Murphy, the GSA administrator, said over the past year the agency has collected and used more information about acquisition and real estate to save money and improve services.
October 23, 2019 -
Federal CIO Suzette Kent said the first agency paid back money to the Technology Modernization Fund and several others returned money after reconfiguring its plans.
October 22, 2019 -
Agencies have to figure out how to take a pragmatic approach to modernizing these legacy systems, to closing these security gaps and dramatically reduce risk while improving services to citizens.
October 18, 2019 -
Jim Walker from UiPath joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss ways Robotic Process Automation can reduce costs for federal information technology projects.
October 17, 2019 -
Dr. John Zangardi, the DHS chief information officer, said he is streamlining the authority to operate (ATO) cyber process to help components move applications to the cloud faster without giving up any of the security rigor required.
October 16, 2019 -
Foreign actors are increasingly using those vulnerabilities to advance state policies, causing governments to treat cyber attacks as an extension of armed conflict.
October 15, 2019 -
Gordon Bitko, the FBI CIO, will join the trade association IT Industry Council in November as its senior vice president of policy where he serve as the chief policy strategist for the technology industry in the government and public sector market.
October 14, 2019