IT Modernization

Though the Department of Veterans Affairs over-projected the impact the coronavirus pandemic would have on the veterans population, the agency said it’s preparing for potential “rebound” in the fall.

McAfee Public Sector Chief Technology Strategist Ned Miller joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss the role of cybersecurity amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw cloud usage spike.

Keith Johnson, the contracting lead for the CIO-SP3 and CIO-SP4 vehicles for NITAAC, said his office is reviewing industry comments on the $40 billion CIO-SP4 draft solicitation and will release the final one in late calendar year 2020.

One state’s unemployment insurance modernization effort a few years ago spared it from much of the COVID-19-related turmoil affecting many others.

Lt. General Jack Shanahan, former director of DoD’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, joins host Aileen Black on this week’s Leaders and Legends to discuss his philosophy of leadership during a crisis.

Pandemic response has acted like a pressure test for federal IT systems and related modernization funding.

Government agencies, some more aggressively than others, are looking for ways to modernize their digital practices and make them stick.

The State Department has just hired its fourth annual cohort of students for its Foreign Affairs Information Technology Fellowship program.

The Public Interest Declassification Board warns a backlog of records slated for declassification makes it harder for federal employees to telework if their jobs require them to work with sensitive information.

Outdated government IT systems and processes hinder many federal and state agencies’ ability to deliver services. This fact has been well known and disturbingly unresolved, even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

Stephen Horvath , vice president of Strategy & Vision at Telos, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss how his company can help federal agencies protect their sensitive information, when making the transition to the cloud.

In addition to the dirt and water the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers moves around the world for its projects, it also has to shift a considerable amount of data.

Like other agencies, the National Security Agency is doing more online collaboration these days.

Nora Dempsey, senior advisor for Innovation at the US Department of State, joins host Derrick Dortch on this week’s Fed Access to talk about the Virtual Student Federal Service (VSFS) program.