CIO News
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President Barack Obama signed the MEGABYTE Act into law, and GSA released two new shared services offerings to keep the “slow” summer months hopping.
August 08, 2016 -
Rob Klopp, the SSA chief information officer, and Rob Thomas, the deputy assistant secretary and principal deputy CIO in VA’s Office of Information and Technology, both are focusing on workforce training to move off legacy systems.
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 Office of Management and Budget issued a final memo banning most new contracts for mobile devices and services.
August 04, 2016 -
A third memo from the administration since 2009 is pushing agencies to consolidate, optimize and move data centers to the cloud.
August 03, 2016 -
The Environmental Protection Agency's forthcoming agile blanket purchasing agreement could be worth up to $200 million. Last week, the EPA technology shop hosted a standing-room-only vendor day for agile software companies. EPA Chief Information Officer Ann Dunkin joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the day and the strategy.
August 03, 2016 -
Defense Department Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen says a trip to Silicon Valley further cemented the department's goal transitioning to the cloud and updating security credentials
July 28, 2016 -
Through HHS’ Entrepreneur-in Residence program and Transportation’s chief innovation officer, these agencies are among the few that are committing resources and people to thinking differently about problems and challenges.
July 28, 2016 -
The IT COST Commission Report lays out 21 recommendations for agency CIOs to help them classify, compare and prioritize spending when it comes to the acquisition of IT for the federal government.
July 22, 2016 -
Jonathan Alboum, USDA’s chief information officer, said he is working through the agency’s CIO Council to develop a concept of operations to modernize the agency’s networks and move to the cloud.
July 22, 2016 -
Roopangi Kadakia joins the Veterans Affairs Department as its new chief information security officer after spending the last five years at NASA.
July 19, 2016 -
Lawmakers are offering the Modernizing Obsolete and Vulnerable Enterprise IT (MOVE-IT) Act as an alternative to the White House’s $3.1 billion IT Modernization Fund proposal to help agencies update technology networks and applications.
July 18, 2016 -
Ivor D’Souza, the chief information officer of the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine, said an interagency effort to cut the time it takes to connect the dots during an outbreak is paying off.
July 15, 2016 -
HHS has promoted Beth Anne Killoran from acting CIO to permanent CIO.
July 08, 2016 -
Ed Leonard, the Washington D.C. Fire and EMS Agency chief information officer, said when a recent CSX train went off track, the lack of interoperability hampered some of the information sharing between his office and his federal counterparts.
July 08, 2016
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