Management
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Last December, the Obama administration requested a $75 million, three-year grant program to help local police departments buy body cameras for officers. In May, the Justice Department announced $20 million in grants for the program. However, several reports show most departments aren’t equipped to handle the data load created by continuous video monitoring in the field. Some are already switching off the cameras to save on storage costs and minimize the IT impact. Wayne Arvidson is the vice president of video surveillance solutions at Quantum. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the demands of video monitoring, and how quickly the field is growing.
August 10, 2015 -
Fraud has been a longstanding concern for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as SNAP. About a year ago, the Government Accountability Office took a look at the program and made recommendations that the Food and Nutrition Service reassess the detection tools that were being used. Today, FNS is cracking down on SNAP trafficking with predictive analysis. Jon Lemon is a systems engineer with SAS Federal. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to further discuss the program and fraud detection efforts.
August 10, 2015 -
Dave Bowen, the Defense Health Agency CIO, said getting the military services to sign off on a concept of operations for health IT shared services is a huge step toward meeting an Oct. 1 deadline to reach full operational capability.
August 10, 2015 -
Adm. Paul Zukunft says he’s highly optimistic that more money is coming to help recapitalize his fleet. The House and Senate have yet to agree to a 2016 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security, but he said his discussions with leaders of both parties from the two congressional appropriations committees suggest his service will get a robust plus-up.
August 10, 2015 -
In this week's Inside the DoD Reporter's Notebook, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work tells the deputy chief management officer to come up with an implementation strategy for a “rationalized” Pentagon organizational chart.
August 10, 2015 -
Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald says he's baffled by the way the federal government tends to separately brand each one of its IT offerings, especially its public-facing ones.
August 10, 2015 Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work tells the deputy chief management officer to come up with an implementation strategy for a “rationalized” Pentagon organizational chart.
August 10, 2015-
A court case in Europe could have a big impact on how your agency manages, preserves and pays for its data. Karen Evans is the national director of the US Cyber Challenge and former e-Government administrator at the Office of Management and Budget. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose why your agency's CIO should pay attention to the European Commission's suit against Google's Android operating system.
August 07, 2015 -
The Pentagon is telling its senior leadership to get ready for another round of cutbacks to administrative spending. Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work says he wants a plan on his desk to de-layer DoD’s organizational chart and also get better value from its service contracts. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu writes about it in this week’s edition of Inside the Reporter’s Notebook.
August 07, 2015 -
The Government Accountability Office finds more problems with the Marine Corps' 2012 financial audit. The Defense Department's Office of Inspector General didn't go through the right procedures or find the right evidence to support a clean financial audit opinion in fiscal 2012. The DoD IG rescinded the clean opinion back in March. Asif Khan is director of financial management and assurance issues at the GAO. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose why he conducted the study and what tipped him off that the fiscal 2012 audit opinion may not be accurate.
August 07, 2015 The Justice Department's Office of Information Policy is spearheading a proactive disclosure effort to measure the cost and effectiveness of making information from Freedom of Information Act requests available as soon as possible.
August 07, 2015-
About 30 goats from Browsing Green Goats of Calvert County, Maryland, started chowing down on invasive plant species this week at Historic Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
August 07, 2015 -
The Office of Management and Budget's director urges Congress to reconsider the budget belt-tightening it has in store for the IRS, the Office of Personnel Management and federal IT.
August 07, 2015 -
At the Health and Human Services Department, chief information officers are so concerned with operating IT networks that they skimp on cybersecurity, according to report by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. It says chief information security officers should report to agencies' top lawyers.
August 07, 2015 -
Stan Lowe, VA’s deputy assistant secretary in the Office of Information Security, becomes the second senior executive to leave this week.
August 07, 2015