In today's Federal Newscast, the House passes the VA MISSION Act, which would give the Veterans Affairs Department a long-awaited alternative to the Choice program and consolidates all seven community care programs.
In today's Federal Newscast, wary of another last-minute budget deal, seven Republican senators asked Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to expedite floor consideration of funding bills and nominees before the end of the fiscal year.
A May 7 memo from the Defense Department's chief information officers gives "fourth estate" agencies until 2020 to migrate applications from more than 100 data centers.
The adoption of a hybrid cloud model leads agencies down the path of creating an approach to security that is based on the zero trust model, where identity management helps define who has access and how that access is defined to specific data and applications.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Federal Risk Authorization and Management Program and the Cloud Security Alliance announce the creation of FedSTAR to offer mutual recognition between the two security programs.
Pentagon's new rationale for JEDI: A multiple-award contract would slow the process of migrating military computing to the cloud.
Dave Egts, chief technologist and director, Office of the Chief Technologist,, North America Public Sector at Red Hat discusses the advantages of open source and how it can help federal agencies manage large amounts of data. May 15, 2018
The organization that supports SOCOM's warfighters is more conservative than they are, and only just beginning to experiment with the newest business and technological capabilities.
Jonathan Sullivan, a digital services expert at the U.S. Digital Service, said modernizing the Quality Payment Program for CMS required a change in approach.
With managed services, agencies such as the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security area sharing overhead, surge capacity and costs for their help desk services.
Cloud is transforming the workplace by letting us view the concept of work in a much different manner. The tools have become smaller from smartphones to tablets, and software is running our lives. Some estimate that by 2020, 25 percent of all software will be in the cloud as-a-service.
The Pentagon's chief information officer's office spearheaded the development of the ITSA tool as part of its data center consolidation effort.
Mike Olson, chief strategy officer at Cloudera, joins host John Gilory on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss agile software development, open source, and technical innovation in the federal government. May 8, 2018
In today's Federal Newscast, a policy update from the U.S. Postal Service emphasized its preference for so-called clustered box units in new housing developments, instead of door-to-door.
Industry says the Defense Digital Service is wedded to an approach to move to commercial cloud and the lack of open and transparent discussions is causing concerns.