Big Data
-
April Chen, the senior product manager for Iron Mountain, explains how process, protection and people need to come together to better manage records and data.
August 17, 2016 Is your agency swamped with data? This week on Federal Tech Talk, Monica McEwen, public sector director at Qlick will explain how her company uses data analytics to help federal IT professionals take diverse streams of information and make sense of them. August 16, 2016
August 15, 2016-
Dave Nelson is leaving the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to be the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s CIO while Karen DeSalvo left her role as coordinator for health IT to focus full time on being acting assistant secretary for health.
August 15, 2016 -
Cloud has become a necessity for holding the large amounts of data generated by the so-called internet of things phenomenon. That's according to an analysis of spending patterns from Govini. Govini analyst Matt Hummer and the FCC's Chief Information Officer David Bray join Federal Drive with Tom Temin to add some context.
August 12, 2016 -
Congress handed the White House and Treasury a job back in 2014: Establish a new reporting system for agency spending that would make it easier for people to see and anaylze for themselves, how the goverment spends $1 trillion every year. But the Data Act has proved difficult to implement, as documented in two recent studies from the Government Accountability Office. Paula Rascona, director of financial management and assurance issues at the GAO. joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
August 12, 2016 -
The Coalition for Government Procurement wrote a letter to GSA senior procurement executive Jeff Koses asking for a delay in the Transactional Data Reporting pilot.
August 12, 2016 -
The Defense Department is changing its policy on collection and retention of privacy-related data about U.S. citizens. That means changes for the way the intelligence community does business.
August 10, 2016 -
Intelligence analysts say a new Defense Department data gathering policy helps civil liberties and intelligence work.
August 05, 2016 -
Two feds who have experience moving to the cloud offered up lessons learned from their experience, including the one thing that makes all the difference.
August 04, 2016 -
The Government Accountability Office says the implementation of the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act needs improvement, as the Treasury Department works to finalize a system to collect agency data and make sure it is in the same format.
August 03, 2016 -
When trying to find and recruit new talent, federal agencies can have too much of a good thing, namely data. But if you know how to use data, you can quickly zero in on the people with real potential. The Partnership for Public Service teamed up with LinkedIn to explore how this works. Tim McManus, vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership, fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
August 03, 2016 -
Kate Josephs spent the last two years as the executive director of the Performance Improvement Council where she focused on having program managers take advantage of data to make decisions. Josephs left government July 29 to return to a new role in the UK government.
August 01, 2016 -
The Defense Department is tightening up its standards for using data on U.S. citizens.
August 01, 2016 -
The Obama administration has launched what it calls the Data Driven Justice Initiative to alleviate the cost of mass incarceration. Dave Wilkinson, director of the White House office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to share details on the initiative.
August 01, 2016 -
Kevin Desanto, co-founder and managing director of KippsDesanto and Nick Wakeman, editor of Washington Technology, will discuss the state of mergers and acquisitions in the government market. August 1, 2016
July 31, 2016
