Cloud Computing

The General Services Administration says it’s creating more visibility into the transition to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program through meetings with deputy secretaries, letters to agency CIOs and agency transition managers and briefings with smaller agencies.

Agencies can take the lessons learned from the pandemic and continue to apply them to their broader mission areas.

Ryan Cote, the chief information officer of the Transportation Department, credited the work the agency has done over the last two years to consolidate and modernize its network as the reason the move to near 100% telework has gone smoothly over the last few months.

Thanks to technology preparedness and staffing, Montana’s CIO has been overseeing the state’s COVID-19 response from a cabin just outside Glacier National Park.

Irv Dennis, the CFO for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, said his office already has kicked off initiatives to implement robotics process automation and data analytics ahead incoming help from the IT Modernization Centers of Excellence program.

To make sure NARA can still open digital records years from now, the agency has released a Digital Preservation Framework with digital recordkeeping best practices for hundreds of file formats.

Michael Speca, president and Josh O’Sullivan, chief technology officer at Ardalyst, joined host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to talk about CMMC, small business, and the strengths and weaknesses of CMMC on the Microsoft platform. 

Sonny Bhagowalia, the deputy assistant commissioner and deputy CIO, will be take over for Landfried in the interim.

Federal News Network asked 10 members of the federal IT community to offer comments and insights about the impact Federal CIO Suzette Kent has had on the government over the last two-plus years.

This program will provide a progress report on secure cloud computing in government.

This week on Off the Shelf, Tom Sisti, executive vice president and general counsel for the Coalition for Government Procurement, joins host Roger Waldron for a wide ranging discussion of the top issues affecting contractors.

Vijay D’Souza, GAO’s director of Information Technology and Cybersecurity, said agencies have to consider their various business processes and what could impact them, then what can be done to offset those impacts and keep operations moving smoothly.

GAO dismissed Perspecta’s second protest of the enterprise email and cloud collaboration contract called DEOS awarded to GDIT in August after GSA said it would take corrective action.

Cloud migration may have started out as a cheaper, more effective way for federal agencies to store and manage data, but it’s evolved into much more in the past decade.