Technology
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On Monday, the Pentagon made good on its promise to make more use of the government\'s FedRAMP process, certifying 23 cloud products as secure enough to host DoD low-level data.
May 05, 2015 -
If the federal government is operating in the information age, then its main currency is data. Agencies and Congress have been doing a lot to make sure federal data is accessible and transparent. For agencies, data is vital to improving performance. Hudson Hollister is executive director of the Data Transparency Coalition. On a special Federal Drive live from the Government Performance Summit, he joined Tom Temin to discuss how proper data can help any agency.
May 04, 2015 -
People don\'t want digital services per se so much as they want easy access to whatever services they seek, says Federal Drive host Tom Temin.
May 04, 2015 -
The decision a decade ago to migrate agencies\' payment functions into a few government mega-centers that specialize in HR and financial management has saved money and kept checks moving on time. But the IT systems backing those shared service centers are getting old, and no one\'s quite sure how to fund their replacements.
May 04, 2015 -
Chris Cullison and CW Walker from ZeroFOX, join host Derrick Dortch to discuss how hackers and terrorists are using social media to further their agendas. May 1, 2015
May 01, 2015 -
Social Security has been operating its new data center for about a year now. The badly needed facility was funded back in 2009 by the economic stimulus bill. It took several years to find a site and build the new data center. Perhaps the hardest part was migrating data and other assets to the new data center. After all, it\'s not as if Social Security can shut things down for a week or so. Overseeing this effort was associate commissioner Tom Grzymski. He and his team won a project management award at the recent GITEC conference. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to review SSA\'s efforts.
May 01, 2015 -
Henry Chao is leaving the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services after more than 21 years at the agency. Chao led the IT portion of the Affordable Care Act portal development and implementation.
May 01, 2015 -
Federal News Radio is collecting reactions to the FITARA draft policy guidance from those who provided their decades of experience in federal IT, acquisition and management.
April 30, 2015
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