IT Modernization
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The Defense Information Systems Agency annual forecast to industry day highlighted several upcoming contract opportunities, but more importantly laid out the path the agency is heading for the next year.
November 02, 2021 -
Former VA deputy CIO Ed Meagher lays out things Secretary Denis McDonough needs to consider to avoid this looming catastrophe for the Veterans Affairs electronic health record modernization effort.
November 01, 2021 -
Tim Jones, regional vice president of Systems Engineering, Public Sector, at ForeScout Technologies, joined host John Gilroy on Federal Tech Talk to discuss the world of Operational Technology.
November 01, 2021 -
The State Department is building up its cybersecurity and IT expertise, and addressing workforce morale issues as part of a sweeping modernization of the agency.
October 27, 2021 -
At GAO's Innovation Lab, which is designed to be a practioner of new computational capacity, identity verification is a major issue.
October 26, 2021 -
The Food and Drug Administration is giving employees a chance to learn data skills through hands-on projects, with less emphasis on traditional classrooms and coursework.
October 26, 2021 -
HHS' artificial intelligence strategy aims to promote AI adoption, and to ensure that algorithms are fair, legal and ethical.
October 21, 2021 -
Zero trust is the cybersecurity goal federal agencies have for their networks and data. It’s a policy requirement, and it’s an industry best practice. But zero trust is not something you buy, download and install. “Zero trust is really a security philosophy and approach that's built on a few core principles,” said Jason Garbis, the chief product officer for Appgate.
October 19, 2021 -
The nine appropriations bills that Senate Democrats unveiled Monday are silent on the topic of federal pay, meaning they'll defer to the president's recommendation for a 2.7% raise for employees in 2022.
October 19, 2021 -
Cheryl Davis, senior director for Strategic Initiatives at Oracle, joined host Roger Waldron on Off the Shelf to discuss the many cybersecurity challenges facing contractors and the federal government.
October 19, 2021 -
Peter Chapman, CEO of IonQ joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to give an overview of quantum computing for federal information technology.
October 18, 2021 -
Forthcoming strategy looks beyond IT modernization, takes multiyear approach to also reform IT policies and personnel practices.
October 14, 2021 -
In the fiscal 2022 Defense Authorization Act, lawmakers expanded the number of projects that would receive “colorless money” for software and IT projects. “We have found it extremely successful helping us to make the appropriate trades between doing some legacy stuff which would have been traditionally operation and maintenance dollars versus taking some risk and applying it to new capability in research, develop and technology (RD&T),” said Col. Jennifer Krolikowski, the senior materiel leader for space command and control at the Space Systems Command.
October 14, 2021 -
Aaron Weis, the Department of Navy’s chief information officer, detailed several programs to move away from old technology and bring the service into a modern infrastructure.
October 13, 2021 -
For what auditors found and how DoD can get on track, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the director of contracting and national security acquisitions at the Government Accountability Office, Shelby Oakley.
October 13, 2021
