Open Data/Transparency

As part of a broader customer service transformation under the President’s Mangement Agenda, the Defense Imagery Managment Operations Center (DIMOC) aims to “connect the dots” between its stovepiped program offices.

Asad Jabbar, head of Capture Management and Josh Wilson vice president of Advanced Analytics at LMI, join host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss super hubs, data cataloging, the proper approach to analytics, and what data analytics means in this new world of big data. September 4, 2018

The Education Department’s Federal Student Aid Office is launching a mobile app for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to help the agency gain a better view into applicants’ pain points with the form.

Not even a platoon of Evelyn Woods could get through this mountain of classified material every year.

The government’s annual spending on grants dwarfs what it spends on contracts by $200 billion. Yet much of the effort devoted to spending transparency leaves out grants.

Mallory Barg Bulman, vice president for research and evaluation at the Partnership for Public Service, shared more on the new language and what it means on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s chief of staff tells congressional investigations that the agency assigns public-records requests from environmental groups or others that it sees as “politically charged” to special internal review

Jake Bittner, the CEO of Qlarion, explains how agencies can add more value to the open data movement.

The federal government issues more than $660 billion dollars in grants each year. But the way it collects and generates data about those payments is a mess.

On this week’s episode of Women of Washington, Gigi Schumm welcomed Mischel Kwon of MKACyber, who created her company as a consulting firm to help “improve security operations for enterprises and U.S. federal government agencies.”

If you’re posting on Facebook or Twitter about the IRS taking too long to send your federal tax refund check, or grumbling about long wait times on tax help hotlines, there’s a good chance the agency is listening.

Microsoft said this week it would acquire Github … the popular cloud repository of open source software. Many federal agencies regularly contribute to and use software from Github. But how will the acquisition affect them?

Speaking at a Data Coalition event Wednesday, Federal Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent said the data CAP goal will help the government get its arms around its huge trove of data.

Rich Beutel, founder Cyrrus Analytics and a former House staff member, explains the steps for agencies and Congress to make data more actionable.