GSA is starting to look for other agencies to begin creating and working with their own CoEs for 2019 and beyond.
Wayne Jones, the chief information officer at the NNSA, said he is taking a hybrid approach to modernizing systems and applications.
John Sherman, the Intelligence Community’s chief information officer, wanted to tamp down any rumors about why the IC signed a deal to bring Microsoft’s cloud into the mix.
Pam Wolfe, the chief of the Enterprise Services Division in the NASA Shared services office, said because of robotics process automation, her office can review grant applications more quickly.
OMB has created a Technology Business Management (TBM) executive committee and community of interest to promote faster adoption of the framework.
Jonathan Sullivan, a digital services expert at the U.S. Digital Service, said modernizing the Quality Payment Program for CMS required a change in approach.
The U.S. Digital Service helped SBA modernize the applications to apply for government contracting programs.
Marvo Dolor, the deputy executive director of digital services at the Veterans Affairs Department, said new single sign-on capability eases the path for veterans to use services.
The U.S. Transportation Command brought in the U.S Digital Service after its Defense Personnel Property System suffered a two-week outage.
Dominic Cussatt, VA’s chief information security officer, said VA has addressed several long-standing cyber problems, including the use of two-factor authentication.
Russell Roberts, the TSA chief information officer, said IT network and hardware upgrades are laying the groundwork for cloud migration.
Steve Grewal, who recently joined Cohesity as its CTO after leaving as the deputy CIO at GSA, said agencies should categorize the apps that can move to the cloud immediately.
The National Cancer Institute is sharing data and moving applications to the cloud in an effort to make life easier for its employees.
Alfred Rivera, who retired after serving more than 20 years at the Defense Information Systems Agency, said DoD can’t underestimate the costs and time it takes to migrate to a single cloud foundation.
Howard Whyte, the FDIC chief information officer, said a third-party assessment set the cyber roadmap for the future.