Last month, the Army, along with the rest of the military services, announced all of the active duty cyber teams they’re building for U.S. Cyber Command have reached their initial operating capability and are ready for offensive and defensive missions. Next in line: teams made up entirely of National Guard and Army Reserve personnel.
Soraya Correa, chief procurement officer at the Homeland Security Department, said the Procurement Innovation Lab (PIL) collaborated with others in the agency to develop a streamlined approach to complete hundreds of thousands of outstanding contracts.
The Lohfeld Consulting group ranked upcoming civilian and DoD contracts that meet three criteria: a likely 2017 request for proposal, likelihood of funding and awards next fiscal year, a significant pool of contenders.
The Internal Revenue Service is standing up an Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) to help build on the 2016 progress of reducing identity refund fraud.
The new holy grail for federal agencies is great customer experience. Taking their clues from the private sector, agencies are figuring out how digital and actual offerings can work together to produce satisfied citizens. Mallory Barg Bulman, director of research at the Partnership for Public Service, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how the Veterans Affairs Department efforts in improving customer experience.
Good records management is not only required by law for federal agencies it's also a great way to cut costs and improve performance. Even in the electronic era, agencies still generate a lot of paper. Someone who spans both eras is Jim Williams, long-time federal IT and acquisition executive and now a consultant with Shambach and Williams. Federal Drive with Tom Temin asked him why records management sometimes seems mired in the 1980s.
The Defense Department is taking growing pains in stride as it continues to work on its multi-year implementation plan of the cybersecurity system, the Joint Regional Security Stacks (JRSS).
This week on Federal Tech Talk, host John Gilroy speaks with Rick Gordon, managing partner of the incubation hub Mach37, and the CEOs of two companies that have worked within the Mach37 program: Tensor Wrench's Jason Wagner and Threat Switch's Jon Dillard. November 1, 2016