Big Data

A USPS OIG data analytics shop of about 50 employees has been using the agency’s huge troves of data to detect fraud, waste and abuse that might otherwise go undetected. 

Much like every other agency in the federal government, the Navy is experimenting with how to implement the latest technological advancements to their mission.

HHS OIG wants stakeholders to know its cybersecurity team is preparing the department to handle incidents like the WannaCry ransomware attack.

The Health and Human Services Department said it’s not yet positioned to use data to predict what the next public health crisis might be, but it’s developing a new data sharing strategy to launch the agency in the right direction.

Just days after President Donald Trump named her the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, Margaret Weichert, also the Office of Management and Budget’s deputy director for management, outlined some of her top priorities in the new role.

Zulfikar Ramsan, chief technology officer at RSA Security joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss innovation concepts, handling large data sets, and artificial intelligence. October 9, 2018

Gary Washington, the chief information officer at the Agriculture Department said the commitment from agency leadership, the White House and the program offices to modernize systems and applications is why he is confident about the future.

The Department of the Navy is going all in on the National Defense Strategy and pushing everything else to the side.

Recent House votes included bills on the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Energy, while committees on natural resources have made progress on a bill to cut down on national parks maintenance.

Ian Buck, vice president of Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss Graphic Processor Units and how speed impacts continuous integration and deployment of big data. October 2, 2018

How GSA is leading the government in improving the customer experience by consolidating platforms and making better use of data.

Renee Wynn, the NASA CIO, said during the upcoming ACT-IAC ELC ImaginationNation conference she’s interested in learning about SDN and zero trust networks.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Robert Cardillo said satellite imagery has improved exponentially since he joined the government in the 1980s.

Drone pilots in the Air Force are flying Cessnas to learn the basics, but that won’t work forever.