About 63 organizations will benefit from this new service provider, Greg Garcia, the executive director of the Army IT Agency, tells Federal News Radio.
Aaron Cornfeld, group vice president, Pre-sales Engineering, Public Sector, Healthcare and Higher Education at Oracle, joins host John Gilroy to discuss products the company is developing that could be of interest to IT professionals in the federal government. June 23, 2015
Commentary: Giles Kesteloot, director of the Blackstone Technology Group, argues that in a complex multi-contract, multi-customer and multi-vendor cloud ecosystem someone has to oversee execution and manage expectations.
Setting the record straight on what exactly Stan Kaczmarczyk said on June 2 about the cloud cybersecurity effort known as Federal Risk Authorization and Management Program (FedRAMP). There have been several blogs and some articles that either didn\'t understand or misconstrued his comments, which has set some in the federal community off in the wrong direction.
The General Services Administration tells agencies they shouldn\'t rule out contractors who don\'t have Federal Risk and Authorization Management program authorizations yet. The program is only a few years old. And GSA says agencies who require FedRAMP compliance as a condition for contractors to bid on work, are limiting competition. Katie Lewin is the former program manager for cloud computing at the General Services Administration, and now an independent consultant. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose what government\'s role is in vendors being able to adopt FedRAMP.
Randy Miskanic, the Postal Service\'s acting chief information officer, said over the next six months 225,000 letter carriers and other employees will be using hand-held devices to collect and review data in real-time to help them make better decisions.
Frank Baitman, the Department of Health and Human Services chief information officer, said moving to an open office floor plan drives the agency to be more mobile and take more advantage of cloud services.
Sam Ganga, president of Global Mobility Services at DMI, will discuss mobile device management, cloud integration, and app design. May 26, 2015
Stephen Rice, the TSA chief information officer, said the agency is figuring out how to modernize its IT infrastructure despite seeing a $65 million budget cut over the last three years.
Niall Brennan, chief data officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services joins host John Gilroy to discuss big data, healthcare analytics, data storage and data curation. May 19, 2015
Robert Coen, program director of the NIH IT GWAC program, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss how agencies are using the NIH\'s contract vehicles to meet customer needs. May 19, 2015
The Department of Navy later this summer will move the Data Center and Application Optimization program office under its PEO-EIS group and out of its SPAWAR organization. Acting CIO John Zangardi said the DCAO will create a cloud brokerage hosting program with commercial and federally-approved clouds.
Emile Monette, senior advisor for Resilience and Cybersecurity at the General Services Administration, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how to make the acquisition process safer and more effective. May 12, 2015
The Veterans Affairs Department will finalize a strategy to determine how to use public or commercial cloud computing services. VA backed away from public or commercial clouds about three or four years ago because of concerns over records retention capabilities.
On Monday, the Pentagon made good on its promise to make more use of the government\'s FedRAMP process, certifying 23 cloud products as secure enough to host DoD low-level data.