Big Data
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Cybersecurity experts say the government needs to address gaps in its IT systems and workforce to strengthen its defenses against data breaches, threats that are now a part of everyday federal operations.
April 26, 2016 -
Agencies need data of all types and sources available for applications they might not have yet thought of. This year's email mandate is only the beginning.
April 26, 2016 -
The DATA Act will usher in a new way of reporting federal spending information, but information systems officials say it's also time to revisit job descriptions for data experts.
April 21, 2016 -
Too few people really understand data enough to make use of it. The Commerce Department hopes to demystify data for program managers and other regular people with the Commerce Data Usability Project. Jeff Chen, Commerce's chief data scientist, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to share more on the project.
April 20, 2016 Macro Solutions' Damanjit Padam and Joe Savukas join host John Gilroy to discuss how how agile software can be applied to federal IT projects. April 19, 2016
April 18, 2016-
The Social Security Administration is updating its IT strategy so it can start taking advantage of the massive amounts of data it collects, and move toward data-driven decision-making.
April 15, 2016 -
Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) is introducing the “OPEN Government Data Act,” which he said will make the new default standard for government data an "open" one.
April 14, 2016 -
Mixing up cause and effect or finding effect when there's no cause, this way of thinking is particularly reckless for federal agencies.
April 12, 2016 -
The Social Security Administration is pairing up with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to ensure that social security benefit recipients over the age of 90 are, in fact, still alive.
April 08, 2016 -
A memo obtained by Federal News Radio looks at what Pentagon leaders wanted and explicitly didn't want in reforming the Defense Department.
April 07, 2016 -
Janet Stevens, the chief information officer of the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in USDA, said her bureau will join APHIS in testing out new cyber tools and sensors under the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program.
April 01, 2016 Wayne Lewandowski, vice president, US Federal Sales, Vormetric, joins host John Gilroy to discuss his company's 2016 Data Threat Report, data encryption, and managing security in the federal government. March 29, 2016
March 28, 2016-
Emergency management agencies say existing social media channels are often their best way to crowdsource and collect important information during a major weather event or natural disaster. Agencies such as FEMA and the Health and Human Services Department are adapting their strategy to embrace the "social listening" concept.
March 24, 2016 -
Jim Rolfes, the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s chief information officer, said he’s looking at cloud and open source tools to address the variety and velocity of data his agency faces.
March 24, 2016 -
Today, law enforcement agencies look to technologies, such as body-worn cameras, to reduce crime. However, while body-worn cameras provide public safety benefits, they also create a new type of public safety challenge: data security.
March 23, 2016
