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Alastair Thomson, the chief information officer of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in the NIH, said cloud computing may be the answer to many of its storage and computing power needs.
Klopp said among his top priorities is accelerating the use of cloud across SSA starting with developing a data warehouse.
LaVerne Council, the assistant secretary of the Office of Information and Technology and chief information officer at VA, said the new enterprise cybersecurity team has a strategy to fix all 30 material weaknesses highlighted annually for much of the last 17 years by auditors.
Charlie Armstrong, who retired as the chief information officer of the Customs and Border Protection directorate in the Homeland Security Department on Feb. 4, said the success of the Automated Commercial Environment program is one of the highlights of his 32-year career in government.
A new survey from NAPA and ICF found agencies say budget and workforce challenges stand in their way to moving more toward digital services. The administration is trying to address both of those through the 2017 budget request and new training.
For many agencies, the move to cloud computing services is predicated by policy, legal and contracting decisions made by more than just the chief information officer.
Andrew Wasser, the associate dean in Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College School of Information Systems and Management and the executive director of the CIO Institute, said 12-month classes try to align people, processes and technology to make sure the students can deal with the speed at which all three of these areas are changing.
Ray Coleman, the chief information officer of the Natural Resources Conservation Service in the Agriculture Department, and James Porter, an IT portfolio manager for Immigration and Customs Enforcement at DHS, say their agencies have a better understanding of where new IT efforts exist.
Zach Goldstein, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s chief information officer, said the agency will expand the N-Wave network to offer mission areas access to the 100-gigabyte network in the coming year.
Adriane Burton, the Health Resources and Services Administration’s chief information officer, said she is using data analytics tools to better understand the agency’s business needs.
Ann Dunkin, the EPA chief information officer, said her office hasn’t been updated since 1999 and was in a severe need of a new approach to meet internal and external customer needs.
Howard Williams, the GAO’s chief information officer, said Comptroller General Gene Dodaro is asking the agency to develop a long-term road map to expand and improve its use of data analysis tools.
Shane Compton, the National Park Service’s associate CIO, said his office is looking at how best to increase bandwidth so citizens can take advantage of online tools and services at national parks.
Sonny Bhagowalia, Treasury’s chief information officer, said over the last year the department has closed 17 core data centers and reduced the time to deliver IT capabilities by more than 60 percent.
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