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Kevin Walsh, a director on the Government Accountability Office's IT and cybersecurity team, had the latest on GAO's High Risk List on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Lisa Costa, the chief information officer of the Special Operations Command in the Defense Department, said her office is offering a DevSecOps-as-a-service approach to make it easier to push capabilities out securely.
The working group over the last year-plus interviewed industry, academia, federal, state and local government agencies and other experts to receive demonstrations to identify capabilities and determine test bed suitability for use by the federal government of test labs.
GAO told the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations that CIO authorities improved across five agencies over the course of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard.
Joe Castle, a recent PhD graduate from Virginia Tech, who studied federal technology policy and open source software, and is a federal employee, said culture, public engagement, structural factors and organizational location are all drivers for why an agency would share open source code.
Jack Gumtow, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s chief information officer, said his office is leading three levels of effort to modernize the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System (JWICS).
Two agencies are trying to streamline and reduce the burden of cybersecurity processes in an effort to get capabilities to the mission areas faster.
Greg Garcia recently retired after 38 years in government where spent the last two-plus years as the deputy CIO of the Army.
Clare Martorana, the current chief information officer for the Office of Personnel Management, is the new Federal CIO.
Dave Bottom, the SEC’s chief information officer, said a new IT cost manager will review and analyze the agency’s spending on cloud services on a day-by-day basis.
Sonny Bhagowalia has been the deputy CIO at the Customs and Border Protection directorate since 2018.
Greg Garcia, the Army's deputy chief information officer, announced in an email to staff that his last day would be Feb. 27.
Brian Goodger, the program manager for CIO-SP4 and acting director of NITAAC, said the final solicitation for the health IT services governmentwide acquisition contract should be out mid-to-late March.
Matthew Shallbetter, the director of security design and innovation at the Department of Health and Human Services, is searching for cyber tools and software to help keep HHS ahead of potential and real threats.
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