IT Modernization
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Some 1,150 housing contracts expired during the 35-day government shutdown, but the Department of Housing and Urban Development said the situation could have been avoided if its contract management system wasn't more than 30 years old.
February 13, 2019 -
Agencies are under ever-increasing pressure to deliver outcomes and improve citizen services. Therefore, agencies need to develop new capabilities rapidly and be flexible to meet changing user needs as they tackle the government’s most complex modernization challenges.
February 12, 2019 -
Improving cybersecurity across federal agencies requires staying on top of new and evolving threats. Now, the MITRE Corporation has a new public tool to further that mission.
February 12, 2019 -
The Technology Modernization Fund Board chose GSA’s NewPay shared services proposal to receive the third loan from the IT modernization account.
February 12, 2019 -
Mike Moritzkat and Bill Downer with Seagate Government Solutions join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how their company is using innovation to assist the federal government in storing massive amounts of data.
February 11, 2019 -
Max Everett, the Energy Department’s chief information officer, said about one-third to one-half of the department still needs to move their email to the cloud.
February 08, 2019 -
Acting OPM Director Margaret Weichert named Clare Martorana and David Nesting as the agency’s new chief information officer and deputy CIO, respectively.
February 07, 2019 -
Congress itself is stuck in a technological time warp. Zach Graves, head of policy at the Lincoln Network, provides ideas on how to move the institution along.
February 06, 2019 -
Former federal IT executives say the 1996 law is not the problem, but it’s the processes that grew up around the Clinger-Cohen Act are making IT acquisition too difficult.
February 05, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general found that when it comes to detention facilities contractors, Immigration and Customs Enforcement doesn't adequately hold them accountable for written performance standards.
February 05, 2019 -
Senior Defense IT officials said 2019 will be a year of action as they order a halt to legacy, one-off IT solutions.
February 05, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, an internal email to staff at the National Park Service explained the effect the partial government shutdown had on the agency.
February 04, 2019 -
Agencies impacted and not impacted by the partial government shutdown released up to eight times more RFPs, RFIs and awards on FedBizOpps.gov last week as compared to the same weeks in previous years.
February 04, 2019 -
Raghav Vajjhala, the chief information officer of the FTC, said a new blanket purchase agreement with four vendors will help the agency take a low risk approach to IT modernization.
February 01, 2019 -
Public Technology Institute's Executive Director Alan Shark provides interesting perspective on government shutdown, local government IT priorities for 2019, a comparison with NASCIO's state priorities, and discloses merger with CompTIA.
January 31, 2019
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