Technology
Sonny Hashmi, managing director, Global Government at Box, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how his new company, Box, is helping agencies with their move to the cloud. October 20, 2015
October 15, 2015-
Agencies in the intelligence community are further along than civilian departments in deploying insider threat programs. Some experts in the field say predictive analytics can help agencies move those initiatives from programs that react to an insider threat incident to ones that prevent them. Federal News Radio Reporter Nicole Ogrysko tells In Depth with Francis Rose where agencies are headed with their programs and what they have left to accomplish.
October 15, 2015 -
Technology advances, but it also matures and becomes less lucrative. That's one reason Lockheed Martin is spinning off its cybersecurity services business. Yet Dell is betting $50 billion on EMC, a manufacturer of several mature technologies. What does it all mean for the federal market? Federal Drive host Tom Temin asks Jonathan Aberman, the managing director of Amplifier Ventures and founder of Tandem NSI.
October 15, 2015 -
Most federal employees believe big-data initiatives are having a positive impact on helping their agencies predict trends and evaluate risk. That's according to a recent survey sponsored by Unisys. However, many respondents worry that their agencies aren't equipped to handle the large amount of data these projects come with, either mechanically or personnel-wise. Rod Fontecilla, the vice president of advanced data analytics at Unisys Federal, joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the survey.
October 15, 2015 -
IBM's Watson supercomputer might be most famous for its appearance on Jeopardy, but that was back in 2011. The platform has come a long way since its game show days, and has been updated as part of IBM's new cognitive business initiative. If it's up to IBM, Watson and cognitive computing could have a big impact on the federal government. Anne Altman, the general manager of U.S. federal and government industries at IBM, joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on what's new with Watson and how government is using it.
October 15, 2015 -
New cyber regulations for companies in the defense industrial base are mandatory instead of voluntary. Alex Major, associate in the Government Contracts, Investigations & International Trade Practice Group of Sheppard Mullin, wrote about the new regulations on the Sheppard Mullin blog and he tells In Depth with Francis Rose that contractors and subcontractors may have been drafted.
October 15, 2015 -
A diverse team within the Health and Human Services Department's Office of Inspector General is using data — and predictive analytics — to identify more than $712 million in false billing.
October 15, 2015 -
OFPP Administrator Anne Rung and Tom Sharpe, the commissioner of the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, say category management now is a cross-agency priority goal with a focus on saving money and reducing contracts.
October 14, 2015
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