Big Data

The Army seeks industry feedback on ways to leverage emerging technology to transform the way it operates and maintains its bases, despite a nearly flat budget.

Jake Olcott, vice president of Communications and Government Affairs at BitSight, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss vendor risk management and what federal agencies can do to protect themselves from cyber breaches caused by third party vendors.

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Merit Systems Protection Board finds between 1999 and 2016, only about 7 for ever 1000 new supervisors faced consequences for failing their probationary period.

A long-awaited draft of the Trump administration’s Federal Data Strategy aims to transform the way agencies use all that data to make decisions.

Michael Horowitz, DOJ inspector general, outlines issues with the Bureau of Prisons’ data methods, as well as staffing issues at the agency and department-wide.

Amid a governmentwide effort to reskill the federal workforce, the Department of Veterans Affairs has taken steps to ensure it has the workforce it needs for a data-centric future.

In order for agencies to get a better understanding of what’s expected from them under the Evidence Act, OMB soon expects to release guidance.

In today’s Federal Newscast, a bipartisan group in the House Veterans Affairs Committee wants more information about VA’s plans to curb sexual harassment.

As part of Small Business Week, SBA partnered with Visa for its second annual hackathon, which gave developers an opportunity to leverage government data and build tools to speed up disaster recovery.

Vishal Patel, the vice president of product marketing at Ivalua, details five opportunities for federal, state and local governments to improve acquisition processes.

Even as the National Institutes of Health wrap up this round of digital transformation, the strategic plan for the next five years is already being developed.

Having data behind which programs work and which don’t can make some tough budget decisions at TSA go a little more smoothly.

New retention bonuses for Border Patrol agents who enter into a 12-month service agreement become available in May.

For what this new data project is all about, IARPA program manager Lars Ericson joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.