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The National Cancer Institute's acting CIO said his first attempt at managed services will be a printing pilot.
With managed services, agencies such as the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security area sharing overhead, surge capacity and costs for their help desk services.
Perhaps the first generation of managed services was ahead of its time. No more. Given the rapid maturation of cloud-hosted applications, more ubiquitous bandwidth, and the greater need to manage costs, more federal agencies are engaging with contractors for managed services.
The Federal Aviation Administration wants to reduce its number of applications and make data more accessible across the agency using cloud technology.
Sean Brune, chief program officer for IT modernization, said the Social Security Administration's modernization efforts aim to update software's programming language and improve systems already used by the public.
Howard Whyte, FDIC CIO, says IT departments need the right HR capabilities for new operational environments post-modernization.
Justice CIO Joe Klimavicz said modernizing legacy systems is all about ensuring an agency can fulfill its mission in real-time.
Army Corps CIO believes investing in software as a service will speed up IT modernization and promote more agility in the changes that are made within an agency
When Leidos Health was presented with the challenge of modernizing the Military Health Clinical Health Support System, they knew they had the experience to leverage their commercial experience to accomplish the task.
The Navy's eight new cloud "brokers" will mostly be in charge of setting their applications up for success, with strict oversight from Navy IT leaders.
Too much data is often a deterrence for agencies making the mission of integrating info in a cloud environment even more important.
DoD's Cloud Executive Steering Group isn't the only organization concerned with making classified capabilities available in the commercial cloud. Three other options should be available by the end of this year.
ALTESS, an Army-operated cloud environment, saw its largest growth ever over the past year as data center closures forces legacy applications to new homes.
NIH is working with industry on a project in the cloud to host its large data sets and make them more accessible to researchers