IT Modernization
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Today we live in an ever-increasing digital world and our digital footprints, or the amount of data we leave behind mimicking our human behaviors, choices and thoughts, are becoming so close to our actual physical experience that there may as well be two of us walking the earth.
December 21, 2022 -
The 2023 Financial Service and General Government section of the Omnibus bill allocates $50 million for the Technology Modernization Fund, well below the $300 million the White House requested.
December 20, 2022 -
The departments of Justice and Homeland Security now have until May 31, 2026 to complete the transition from Networx for voice, video and data network services.
December 16, 2022 -
Paul Puckett, the former director of the Enterprise Cloud Management Agency (ECMA) in the Army’s CIO office, said the cloud is not only demonstrating value, but are also fundamentally changing the way that the Army looks at requirements, organizational alignment and incentive structures.
December 16, 2022 -
The high-tech goes hand-in-hand with the high speed ways the world changes, as a constant challenge is staying a step ahead of hackers. Thus, maintaining identity, integrity and good customer service is the name of the game.
December 16, 2022 -
The latest Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act scorecard showed seven agencies improved their grades since last period and 17 stayed the same with USAID receiving the only “A” grade.
December 15, 2022 -
NASA runs on software, as do many federal agencies. Rockets are what they are known for, sure, but controlling them and interpreting data, even handling human resources and finances all require software. Currently, NASA is in development of over 1,000 software features leveraging agile.
December 14, 2022 -
The award is expected to help kickstart a long-anticipated modernization effort for the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System.
December 14, 2022 -
VA says it wants an evolving technology-as-a-service approach to manage its multibillion dollar logistics enterprise, and plans to select its own vendor to handle those responsibilities for the next decade.
December 14, 2022 -
The State Department is looking at data analytics to more effectively buy the IT systems and services it needs to modernize.
December 13, 2022 -
A group of former agency chief information officers and other technology executives is offering some specific suggestions for how to evolve the FITARA scorecard in a white paper from ACT-IAC.
December 12, 2022 -
After years of slow computers, the Air Force takes steps to solve the problem.
December 09, 2022 -
The Social Security Administration wants to hire 4,000 new employees and drastically reduce processing times during 2023, but agency officials say they can't get there without full-year funding from Congress.
December 09, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: IBM's shopping spree lands a Reston firm, as it gobbles up its 25th company since 2020. DoD's chief financial officer wants an actual budget to pass, not a CR. And the Veterans Affairs Department continues to struggle to comply with a litany of laws.
December 08, 2022 -
Host Dave Wennergren speaks with four more outstanding federal technology leaders who recently received ACT-IAC 2022 Executive Leadership Awards.
December 08, 2022
