Ask the CIO
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Federal News Network asked 10 members of the federal IT community to offer comments and insights about the impact Federal CIO Suzette Kent has had on the government over the last two-plus years.
June 29, 2020 -
Federal chief information officer Suzette Kent joined the administration in January 2018 and since then has accomplished several policy updates and created a path for agencies to continuously improve.
June 25, 2020 -
Chief data officers are one of the several new "chiefs" to arise in the government bureaucracy over the last decade. Relationship building with program agencies is their greatest challenge, and opportunity.
June 25, 2020 -
Right before the fifth anniversary of FITARA, VA gave its chief information officer the control over all IT spending across departments, leaving just four other CIOs without the same clout.
June 23, 2020 -
The department created the data management position within the office of the Chief Management Officer in 2018. But as part of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress moved the CDO job to the CIO’s office.
June 22, 2020 -
The Army will bifurcate its headquarters IT leadership office in August, creating a separate CIO office to make IT policies and putting a three-star military officer in charge of implementing them.
June 15, 2020 -
The Chief Information Officers Council has 10 recommendations to better recruit, retain and reskill the federal IT workforce of the future.
June 11, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Chief Information Officers Council says government needs a new pay and personnel system to better recruit and compensate the future federal IT workforce.
June 11, 2020 -
One state's unemployment insurance modernization effort a few years ago spared it from much of the COVID-19-related turmoil affecting many others.
June 04, 2020 -
Keith Bluestein, the NASA associate CIO, is coming back to SBA to take over for Maria Roat who left in May to become the federal deputy CIO.
June 03, 2020 -
In addition to the dirt and water the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers moves around the world for its projects, it also has to shift a considerable amount of data.
June 01, 2020 -
Karen Evans will replace John Zangardi as the CIO of the Department of Homeland Security.
May 28, 2020 -
A four-fold increase in telework capacity, as well as a new chat bot and data visualization tool, are all helping the Department of Veterans Affairs respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
May 22, 2020 -
Local governments are shuttering at coronavirus’ potential job losses. But with mobility and cloud investment rising, desktops time is over.
May 21, 2020 -
The Federal Chief Information Officers Council selected 21 GS-14s and 15s from 11 different agencies to participate in an Agriculture Department-run Senior Executive Service candidate development program. The goal, USDA said, is to groom a new class of executives ahead of the presidential transition, often a popular time for SES retirements.
May 14, 2020
