Big Data
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The Federal Election Commission wants to make campaign finance data more interactive and accessible. And thanks to a partnership with the General Services Administration's 18F team, it's launched beta FEC to do just that. Lindsay Young is a developer at 18F and worked on the beta FEC site. She joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
November 04, 2015 -
The Census Bureau is in the midst of what it calls a digital transformation. It operates one of the biggest, but also most complex, websites in the federal government. It hopes to improve the user experience and try to make its data easier to find. Bureau officials awarded that job to Accenture. Ed Meehan is senior managing director of U.S Safety and Citizens Portfolio at Accenture. He joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the task at hand.
October 27, 2015 John Landwehr, vice president, public sector CTO at Adobe, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how document management technology and monitoring analytics can help agencies secure their data. October 27, 2015
October 26, 2015-
Webster Mudge, a senior director for technology solutions for Cloudera, contends that agencies can make their networks and data safer using analytics to get ahead of the bad guys.
October 26, 2015 -
A new data pilot from the Small Business Administration is helping the agency keep better track of what grants it makes and where the money goes. It's one small step forward as the SBA and other agencies implement their DATA Act plans.
October 23, 2015 -
Greg Smithberger, the NSA chief information officer, said the Intelligence Community IT Enterprise (ICITE) program is taking some of the concepts of the commercial cloud and applying special cybersecurity technologies on top.
October 23, 2015 -
The Office of Science and Technology Policy wants all agencies to be able to harness the power of crowdsourcing and citizen science. So it's designed and released the Federal Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Toolkit to help them do just that. Jenn Gustetic is the assistant director for open innovation at OSTP. She joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more on the toolkit.
October 23, 2015 -
The Homeland Security Department is working through phase two of its Management Cube initiative. The project gives the department a better view of its own financial, acquisition, human capital, contracting, asset and security data.
October 23, 2015 -
The Office of Management and Budget requires agencies now to use data to make decisions about how they spend money and prioritize budget requests. The tools for making those decisions are getting easier and faster for agencies to use. Justin Brown, an IT engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss some of the data analytic solutions he's using and what kind results they yield.
October 22, 2015 -
Data problems continue to haunt the Obama administration's efforts to tame the government's property portfolio. But they are not the same problems of yesteryear.
October 22, 2015 Sonny Hashmi, managing director, Global Government at Box, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how his new company, Box, is helping agencies with their move to the cloud. October 20, 2015
October 15, 2015-
Most federal employees believe big-data initiatives are having a positive impact on helping their agencies predict trends and evaluate risk. That's according to a recent survey sponsored by Unisys. However, many respondents worry that their agencies aren't equipped to handle the large amount of data these projects come with, either mechanically or personnel-wise. Rod Fontecilla, the vice president of advanced data analytics at Unisys Federal, joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the survey.
October 15, 2015 -
A diverse team within the Health and Human Services Department's Office of Inspector General is using data — and predictive analytics — to identify more than $712 million in false billing.
October 15, 2015 -
While industry is excited about the Internet of Things, agencies have shown they've been interconnecting systems and applications for years. But the Privacy Act is standing in the government's way to go further, some say.
October 12, 2015 -
David Shive, the GSA chief information officer, said encouraging more employees to take advantage of the virtual desktop interface (VDI) technology, and modernizing and rationalizing applications are the next steps to improve the agency’s technology environment.
October 09, 2015
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