Adam Levithan, Shawn Mitchell and Jai Dargan from Metalogix will discuss how their company can help your agency move to the cloud. June 28, 2016
Dan Katz, technical director for the public sector at Acquia, makes the case for cloud platforms and open source software for digital experience management as a way for agencies to more easily and quickly migrate to a digital environment.
Keith Bluestein, the acting chief information officer of the SBA, said the agency has been upgrading its network backbone as a precursor to being able to take advantage of new technologies such as the cloud.
Deborah Pierre-Louis, director of IT Security Policy, Liaison, and Training, Bureau of Information Resource Management, Department of State, discusses cybersecurity training, perimeter-based security, and security by design. June 14, 2016
Keith Trippie, the CEO of The Trippie Group LLC and a public sector board member of Acquia, says agencies should follow the lead of dating, travel and insurance companies and have an “easy” button for system modernization.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced he is adding three members to the Defense Innovation Advisory Board. Two of them are technologists and Silicon Valley regulars.
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) said agencies are too selective about what they choose to include or omit in their progress reports on customer service. Instead, agencies should challenge themselves and begin holding themselves to higher performance standards, he added.
Administrator Denise Turner Roth said all facets of GSA will need to support the standup of the Technology Transformation Service.
The Army is adding more migration teams as it moves more of its networks to the Joint Regional Security Stacks (JRSS). Other services will follow soon suit, said David Cotton, DoD's deputy chief information officer for information enterprise.
The Navy is considering multisourcing its next NGEN contract.
A third report in a year suggests OPM continues to struggle to develop a credible business case and now will have trouble paying for the network and security upgrades.
Interior Department and Forest Service officials say a new $182 million contract awarded to Booz Allen Hamilton will make it easier for travelers to plan their visits to national parks, lands and waters.
How can innovation solve federal information technology problems? Find out this week when three experts join host John Gilroy to discuss how their companies are using innovation to assist federal IT professionals. May 24, 2016
In a step that may go some way toward reducing some of the red tape between the Defense Department and cloud computing vendors, the Department of the Navy (DoN) said last week that the Navy and Marine Corps can sign off on their own business cases for migrating to commercial cloud vendors without seeking higher-level approval.
FedRAMP Accelerated aims to improve efficiency and transparency for parties on both sides of the authorization process.