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• State CIOs have a small, but important to-do list for their federal counterparts

  Alex Whitaker, the director of government affairs for the National Association of State Chief Information Officers, said pushing for broader adoption of the .gov domain and harmonization of federal cyber regulations.

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  September 11, 2023
• House tech leadership biggest surprise of summer changes

  Alan Thompson, the CIO, and Justin Black, the CTO, of the House of Representatives were among the federal IT executives leaving their positions over the summer.

  Reporter's Notebook

  September 05, 2023
• Labor, OPM, Census dialing up AI tools to crunch data, improve mission outcomes

  More than two dozen agencies have posted their artificial intelligence use case inventories as required by an executive order and by law.

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  September 01, 2023
• New top-secret cloud strategy underpins State Dept bureau’s modernization efforts

  Jimmy Hall Jr., the State Bureau of Intelligence and Research’s chief information officer and director of the Technology and Innovation Office, said he will release a top secret cloud strategy to improve the agility, security and capabilities for the department.

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  August 28, 2023
• How enterprise risk management is making the TSP more resilient

  Thomas Brandt, the chief risk officer at the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, said the upcoming Association of Federal Enterprise Risk Management summit and survey will provide the latest snapshot on how agencies are doing in managing and mitigating risks.

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  August 22, 2023
• DoD’s JWCC memo is a scene setter for the future of cloud

  Lily Zeleke, the deputy chief information officer for the information enterprise at DoD, said the move to the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability is as much about taking advantage of enterprise services as it is about not breaking mission outcomes.

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  August 15, 2023
• Air Force names new CIO

  Venice Goodwine replaces Lauren Knausenberger, who departed in June, as the Air Force chief information officer.

  Air Force

  August 15, 2023
• Pentagon’s vulnerability disclosure program developing expansion plans to cover more contractors

  Melissa Vice, the director of the Department of Defense’s Vulnerability Disclosure Program, said the 12-month voluntary pilot with defense contractors found vendors faces similar challenges as the department in securing their networks.

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  August 14, 2023
• Benefits.gov still riding the E-Government Act wave 20 years later

  Mangala Kuppa, the director of business application services in Labor’s CIO’s office, said the agency hopes to continue to develop the portal using chatbots and other technologies to better serve citizens.

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  July 31, 2023
• USDA leaning harder into software-as-a-service to satisfy mission needs

  Gary Washington, the chief information officer at the Agriculture Department, said within its multi-cloud environment, they are constantly looking to maximize its value, improve customer experience and continue to be flexible with business needs.

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  July 20, 2023
• Data science is driving major changes to the Bureau of Fiscal Service’s operating model

  Justin Marsico, the Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service’s chief data officer, said a pilot program turned into a full-fledged training effort is helping to further instill the culture of data across the bureau.

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  July 17, 2023
• Navy tech bridges connecting small businesses with its needs

  Robert Smith, the director of Department of the Navy’s Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, said the goal is to accelerate new or better capabilities to the sailor and marine.

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  July 07, 2023
• Congress, Biden administration continue push to reduce security clearance timeline

  OPM and DCSA are making policy and technology changes are part of the implementation of the Trusted Workforce 2.0.

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  June 30, 2023
• Garciga tapped to become new Army CIO

  Leonel Garciga, who has worked as the director of information management for the Army G2 since 2019, will replace Raj Iyer as the service’s lead technology executive.

  Army

  June 26, 2023