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Mark Borkowski, the assistant commissioner in the Office of Acquisition and the chief acquisition officer at CBP in the Homeland Security Department said he is developing a new policy to improve how the agency manages supply chain risks.
Michael Duffy, an associate director at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the Homeland Security Department, said meeting the recent Binding Operational Directive will be driven by the CDM program.
Like their federal brethren, state government chief information officers found themselves in an expanded role over the last few years.
Vid Desai, FDA’s chief information officer, said the new Office of Digital Transformation will improve their ability to govern more effectively, reduce the duplication and the fragmentation of technology initiatives.
John Simms, the deputy branch chief of the Cybersecurity Assurance Branch in CISA, said all the guidance is helping agencies shift their cyber thinking away from the network and closer to the data.
Pat Flanders, the chief information officer at DHA, said the military services and defense agencies will see a more consistent and more secure set of technology tools.
Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, the director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center for the Department of Defense, said the military is not in danger of falling behind to China when it comes to taking advantage of AI capabilities.
In a report to Congress, GSA says it would be too expensive to test out the e-procurement and e-commerce platform approaches under the commercial platform initiative.
Marianne Roth, the chief risk officer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said the bureau built its enterprise risk management program around mission risks and strategic risks.
Rick Simon, the program manager for the Secure Cloud Management project and a contractor in the Defense Innovation Unit, said the office issued success memos to the three vendors who took part in the pilot program.
Collins, who recently left after four years as the chief information security officer at the Social Security Administration, said one of his biggest accomplishments was hiring or retraining two dozen information system security officers (ISSOs) to work directly with the mission areas.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is implementing a portfolio management approach to managing technology and business outcomes.
Eric Olson, the former Treasury Department chief information officer, said the agency moved key systems to highly secured cloud services over the last four years.
Matt Miller, the acting commissioner for the Bureau of Fiscal Service in the Department of Treasury, said he hopes the four legacy shared services providers are early adopters of the new financial management standards.
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