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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.
Imagine Nation, the annual leadership conference put on by the American Council for Technology Industry Advisory Council, returned to in-person earlier this week.
The White House said Kurt DelBene will be the nominee to be the assistant secretary for information and technology and CIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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.
The Labor Department’s CIO doesn’t report directly to the secretary or deputy secretary, and the IG raises the issue in a new audit that received a sharp response from agency leadership.
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.
Dr. Neil Evans recently became the second acting chief information officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2021 and sixth in the last 11 years.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is implementing a portfolio management approach to managing technology and business outcomes.
The Transportation Department and the FDA have new chief information officers, while the Air Force and the Homeland Security Department have new chief technology officers.
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