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Lawmakers are concerned the Department of Veterans Affairs didn't do its due diligence in making the decision to adopt a new scheduling system from Cerner, the same contractor both the VA and Pentagon are using to overhaul their electronic health records.
Joe Klimavicz, the Justice Department CIO and chief data officer, said by holding both roles he can take advantage of the different authorities to make significant progress much faster in aggregate across the department.
State CIOs complain about departmental roadblocks to reform, while the lower officers worry that state officers don't understand their business challenges. Washington state CIO Jim Weaver embeded his senior staff in the departments to confront these challenges head-on.
Kshemendra Paul joined the Veterans Affairs Department as its new chief data officer after spending the last almost three years at the Homeland Security Department. Meanwhile, SBA hires Bill Hunt from OMB and Labor promotes a new deputy CIO.
Jason Martin, the vice director of the Development and Business Center at DISA, said the agency is doing a better job in merging data to oversee and manage employee access to systems.
The Energy Department has a new chief information officer and a plan to bring its infrastructure into the modern age.
The ink is dry on the Army's new data strategy. Once it's officially released, it will come with specific orders telling Army components to adhere to common data standards.
Ryan Cote, the Transportation Department’s chief information officer, said by bringing together technology management and delivery under his office, the modes would be freed to focus on mission and receive better, cost-effective services.
The Office of Management and Budget released the final TIC policy that outlines four uses cases and a series of deadlines to implement a more flexible security architecture.
New Jersey CTO Chris Rein's security background highlights his priorities and helps him facilitate the state's two-agency security posture. Next year will see multiple new efforts surface in his office.
Allen Hill, the director of the Telecommunications Services Office at the General Services Administration, said most agencies will not meet the Sept. 30 deadline to award new contracts under EIS, but most are making good progress setting up 2020 to be a busy year.
Jimmy Jones, who spent the last 20 years in federal service at the departments of Education, Interior and Transportation and the Recovery Board, is one of several people on the move in the federal IT and acquisition community.
Jamie Holcombe, the chief information officer of the Patent and Trademark Office, said among his first projects has been to fix the technology that runs the agency’s search tools to help patent examiners and trademark lawyers find ‘prior art.’
Beau Houser will join Census Bureau to be its chief information security officer after spending the last two years as SBA in a similar role.
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