The Army uses Other Transaction Authority to buy cyber prototypes and hopes to use IT Box to deploy them broadly.
As OMB presses agencies to spend more money on new or modernized systems, some federal CIOs and other IT executives say modernizing the definition of legacy systems is an important starting point.
DoD approved IBM to be its second Level 5 security cloud provider just as FedRAMP is finalizing its high baseline standard.
President Barack Obama is requesting $89.8 billion for federal IT in 2017, including $51.3 billion for civilian agencies and $38.5 billion for the Defense Department.
President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress for $19 billion for federal cybersecurity efforts in fiscal 2017. The White House wants to use some of the money to create a $3.1 billion IT modernization fund and provide more education to federal employees as part of a new cyber national action plan.
Rob Stein, the vice president for NetApp U.S. Public Sector, highlights possible trends in how agencies buy and deploy technology over the next year.
Agencies have more choices than ever to buy secure cloud computing services. The Federal Risk Authorization and Management Program (FedRAMP) is finding its footing in providing access to authorized vendors to provide cloud services. The General Services Administration's Matt Goodrich is the director of the FedRAMP cybersecurity program for cloud services. He tells executive editor Jason Miller on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the progress FedRAMP has made since the summer.
To help U.S. agencies operating in the Arctic region, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency has been releasing non-classified data to anyone who wants to use it, public or private.
For many agencies, the move to cloud computing services is predicated by policy, legal and contracting decisions made by more than just the chief information officer.
That gap between how the public and private sectors embrace digital technology is at the heart of the most recent Federal Leaders Digital Insight Study.
Better cost data will help agency CIOs make more informed decisions about moving to newer, more cost effective IT solutions, said Richard McKinney, the Transportation Department's chief information officer.
Mark Ryland, director of Solutions Architecture and chief architect with Amazon Web Services, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how his company can help your agency with its move to the cloud. January 26, 2015
GSA awarded six vendors a spot on a blanket purchase agreement to provide integration and implementation services for Salesforce tools.
Ray Coleman, the chief information officer of the Natural Resources Conservation Service in the Agriculture Department, and James Porter, an IT portfolio manager for Immigration and Customs Enforcement at DHS, say their agencies have a better understanding of where new IT efforts exist.
Ralph Havens, president of Infoblox Federal, joins host John Gilroy to discuss what federal IT professionals can do to make their networks safe and secure. January 19, 2016