Automation

NASCIO celebrated 50th anniversary in Nashville with record attendance, revealed annual CIO survey results and elected a new president from North Carolina.

The Agriculture Department is expanding its contact center and customer experience efforts to more bureaus over the next year as part of its IT modernization initiatives.

The intelligence community is working to lay the foundation for adopting AI, including raw technology, training data and workforce education.

Margaret Weichert, the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, says she is deeply concerned about structural impediments to bring agility to government.

For all of DoD’s aspirational projects, AI tools tend not to fare well in situations where data is spare or not structured in a way that the algorithm can’t process.

Chris Barlow, the director of marketing for Synergetics, Inc., details what agencies should keep in mind as they consider using artificial intelligence.

Jim Walker from UiPath joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss ways Robotic Process Automation can reduce costs for federal information technology projects.

Federal Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent, who has overseen some of the administration’s reskilling pilots, said some anxieties about automation aren’t new. 

Phil Quade, the Chief Information Security Officer for Fortinet, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss his new book: “The Digital Big Bang: The Hard Stuff, the Soft Stuff, and the Future of Cybersecurity.”

OPM is working with the Federal CIO Council to create a job rotation program for federal employees who went through the Federal Cybersecurity Reskilling Academy.

Rick “Ozzie” Nelson, vice president and general manager for the Public Sector at MicroStrategy, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to talk about business intelligence and how it is being used to analzye complex problems in the federal government.

Michael Wooten, the administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said his priorities are centered around building on existing efforts like category management, upskilling the workforce, unlocking technology to create innovation and harnessing acquisition data to turn it into business intelligence.

Highlight Technologies COO Adam McNair joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to explain what ISO 9000 certification means to the world of federal software development projects.

The Energy Department has a new chief information officer and a plan to bring its infrastructure into the modern age.