After a long stint as the deputy director of the center for information technology at the NIH, Stacie Alboum is about to head to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. At the ACT-IAC emerging technology conference in Cambridge, Maryland earlier this week, Federal Drive with Tom Temin caught up with Alboum to discuss what her new job will be all about.
Spy agencies are starting to organize around a set of common standards and data for using open source intelligence, but challenges remain.
The Biden administration has repeatedly called for equity considerations to be incorporated into new policies or programs, and more federal leaders are grasping what that means for their particular agencies.
As part of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification exercise, DoD will figure out which data under Level 2 will require self-assessments and which will require third-party assessments.
The intelligence community is drafting a new data strategy for the first time since 2017, with a big focus on training a data savvy workforce.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is looking to deliver software more like the tech industry under a new strategy that sets key metrics for both internal development teams and contractors.
The Office of Management and Budget is naming Karin Orvis as its chief statistician, a position that hasn't had a permanent leader in more than two years.
Intelligence agencies have struggled to define how open source intelligence, like commercial satellite imagery and social media, fits into its broader work.
There are now approaches to migration that can both ease and speed the path to public sector IT modernization considerably, and to powerful effect.
The DoD should act now to integrate two tools into its development and procurement frameworks and create open software architecture kits to support the wider implementation of the tools.
Gregg Judge of Army's ECMA said consistent language in cloud-based contracts, and around DevOps, allows the Army to pivot toward more standardized practices.
General Services Administration sees a shift in contract obligation and business volume data where sustainability is concerned.
Currently data centers account for approximately 2% of total U.S. energy use, equivalent to 10 to 50 times the energy per floor space of a typical commercial office building.
When it comes to customer experience (CX), the government continues to lag behind the best of the private sector. Thus, the latest executive order on customer experience, issued by an administration that wants to pull agencies uniformly into the 21st century where CX is concerned.
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