Ask the CIO
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To better cybersecurity, government agencies are starting the change the way they authenticate identities.
August 25, 2016 -
The intelligence community is building its cloud system around the concept of integration in order to facilitate better data sharing and standardized security.
August 25, 2016 -
DoD will ask around 3,000 current employees to move from the traditional civil service system to one that offers them fewer job protections but might also boost their pay and promotion prospects.
August 19, 2016 -
Mark Schwartz, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services chief information officer, said he’s implementing something called impact mapping to better manage how his agency uses dev/ops to move off legacy systems.
August 19, 2016 -
Dave Milhecic, DISA’s chief technology officer, said a big data platform and an application that runs on top of it called Fight by Indicator (FBI) is giving analysts the information and tools to improve network defenses.
August 19, 2016 -
Dave Nelson is leaving the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to be the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s CIO while Karen DeSalvo left her role as coordinator for health IT to focus full time on being acting assistant secretary for health.
August 15, 2016 -
Dave DeVries, currently DoD’s principal deputy CIO, will help OPM transition to the new National Background Investigation Bureau.
August 09, 2016 -
DHS, EPA, 18F and others are developing separate contracts for dev/ops services, creating both a much needed culture change, but possibly also another area where contract proliferation and duplication reign.
August 08, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget updated Circular A-130 with the requirement for agencies to focus on risk management when deciding on how to protect networks and systems.
August 08, 2016 -
President Barack Obama signed the MEGABYTE Act into law, and GSA released two new shared services offerings to keep the “slow” summer months hopping.
August 08, 2016 -
Rob Klopp, the SSA chief information officer, and Rob Thomas, the deputy assistant secretary and principal deputy CIO in VA’s Office of Information and Technology, both are focusing on workforce training to move off legacy systems.
August 05, 2016 -
Two feds who have experience moving to the cloud offered up lessons learned from their experience, including the one thing that makes all the difference.
August 04, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget issued a final memo banning most new contracts for mobile devices and services.
August 04, 2016 -
A third memo from the administration since 2009 is pushing agencies to consolidate, optimize and move data centers to the cloud.
August 03, 2016 -
The Environmental Protection Agency's forthcoming agile blanket purchasing agreement could be worth up to $200 million. Last week, the EPA technology shop hosted a standing-room-only vendor day for agile software companies. EPA Chief Information Officer Ann Dunkin joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the day and the strategy.
August 03, 2016
