IT Modernization

Jay Mahanand, the chief information officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development, said the plan is to launch an enterprise portfolio management program that USAID will deploy worldwide in the coming months.

Arizona CIO Morgan Reed is transforming the state’s IT with cloud computing, after a devastating sand storm-generated computer outage.

Responses to the Army’s Enterprise IT-as-a-Service prototype are due within a month, work is set to begin by the end of this year.

Jake Olcott, vice president of Communications and Government Affairs at BitSight, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss vendor risk management and what federal agencies can do to protect themselves from cyber breaches caused by third party vendors.

The Office of Personnel Management said an IT outage impacted significant programs and mission for multiple hours last week. But a government source said the incident has been dramatized to make the case for the proposed OPM-GSA merger.

On this week’s episode of Leaders and Legends in Government, Aileen Black spoke with Doug Wolfe, former director of science and technology at the CIA.

GSA has issued a request for information to begin modernization of legacy mainframe hardware at the Office of Personnel Management. The RFI is part of GSA’s Centers of Excellence initiative, which both agencies have agreed to use to advance the merger.

Bloomberg Government analyst Cameron Leuthy looked further into the issue. Leuthy joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin with a closer look into FBI IT spending.

Agencies clamor to reskill their employees for the jobs of the future under various IT modernization strategies.

Jeremy Rissi, vice president Commercial and Public Sector at MobileIron, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to explain how a phone based system can be used to help federal agencies protect their data, and detect cyber threats.

How do federal agencies make sense of the mountains of information they possess? Find out when Clark Richey, co-founder and CTO of FactGem, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk.

Managing director for Accenture’s CIO advisory, Dave McClure, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss modernizing IT with practical strategies.

In Federal News Network’s ongoing special report, GSA @ 70: Mission evolved, we explore through interviews, data and photos how the agency’s impact and importance has grown over the last seven decades. This photo gallery highlights how GSA has changed over the last 70 years from basic things like the logo to serving small businesses to technology and telecommunications. 

Agencies should pay attention to Apple’s services software re-do.