Technology
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It's been a long time coming, but now the First Responder Network Authority, or FirstNet, has released a request for proposals to deploy a nationwide, broadband public safety network. FirstNet President TJ Kennedy is calling it a landmark development. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about the details of the RFP and what it means.
January 13, 2016 -
DoD's forthcoming update to enterprise email is likely to include several other business collaboration tools, and will be rebranded as the "Defense Office Automation Service."
January 13, 2016 -
Katie Maddocks, deputy director of Government Affairs at the Federal Managers Association, joins host Mike Causey to discuss the Wounded Warrior project, the OPM data breach, and more. January 13, 2016
January 12, 2016 -
Lawmakers cringed at the price expansion and lack of tangible goals associated with the Veterans Benefits Management System.
January 12, 2016 -
Organizations have had, in the strict definition of the words, "development operations." They didn't always function very well.
January 12, 2016 -
Similar to the way the HealthCare.gov debacle sparked reforms to technology management, the Office of Personnel Management data breach is fueling a deep discussion around cloud computing. So much so in fact, a two year effort to develop a bill to make it easier for agencies to migrate to the cloud is on track to be introduced in another six weeks. In the latest installment of his weekly Reporter's Notebook, executive editor Jason Miller writes about the cloud bill and why it has good chance of becoming law.
January 12, 2016 -
A few federal employees and military officers got caught when the big Ashley Madison data breach came out last year. Bet they wish that data had been encrypted. Ditto for the IRS and Office of Personnel Management, both of which lost control of data on millions of people. Encryption is getting a new look by many chief information security officers now. Leo Guthart, chairman of Security First Corporation, Federal Drive with Tom Temin an industry update.
January 12, 2016 -
The main population count not only takes place every 10 years, it also requires 10 years of planning. For 2020, that job falls to Lisa Blumerman, director of the 2020 count at the Census Bureau. As you might have guessed, the bureau is deep into preparing for 2020. Federal Drive with Tom Temin asked Blumerman on Agency of the Month for a status update and a sense of the scope of the mission for which she's responsible.
January 12, 2016
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