Technology

• Continuous Monitoring: Tools and Techniques for Trustworthy Government IT

  How are agencies tackling the threats and vulnerabilities inherent in today's technology dependent government? Continuous monitoring provides nearly real-time information in the face of cyber attacks and is essential for senior leaders making ongoing risk-based decisions that affect critical mission and business functions. OMB mandates and NIST guidelines require agencies to establish oversight mechanisms to evaluate systematically and ensure the continuing security, interoperability, and availability of systems and agency data. Tune into this interactive discussion to learn about the current state of risk management and how agencies are using continuous monitoring to maintain situational awareness of information security and organizational risk.

  Technology

  September 19, 2013
• Air Force empowers its CIO, centralizes IT planning

  Senior uniformed Air Force leaders have agreed it's time to give more authority to the service's chief information officer. The CIO is drafting plans that will give it more say-so over planning the overall IT environment and the dollars targeted toward individual projects.

  Defense

  September 18, 2013
• The 2013 Executive Leadership Conference

  Jim Williams and Rick Holgate from ACT-IAC will fill us in on next month's 2013 Executive Leadership Conference in Williamsburg Virginia. September 17, 2013

  Federal Tech Talk

  September 17, 2013
• INSIDE THE REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: FEMA to name Gardner as CIO; new DHS CIO close; NASA struggles with HSPD-12

  News and buzz in the acquisition and IT communities that you may have missed this week.

  Defense

  September 16, 2013
• GSA plans to stop providing HR shared services

  The General Services Administration will focus on its core mission and let others provide payroll and human resources services. The decision comes as shared services is gaining momentum as OPM is pumping some energy back into the HR line of business, and the Interior will release a new geospatial platform to host data and applications.

  Technology

  September 13, 2013
• GSA picks second vendor to provide e-travel services

  After three years and multiple protests, the contract for the second generation e-travel system finally is decided. GSA awards CWTSato to compete with Concur Technologies to provide a travel management system to agencies.

  Technology

  September 13, 2013
• Takai mandates entire DoD to migrate to enterprise email

  Military services and agencies have 120 days to draft strategies for shutting down their own email systems and migrating to DISA's enterprise email offering. The DoD CIO ordered the move to begin no later than the first quarter of 2015.

  Defense

  September 13, 2013
• NWS getting out of commodity IT through cloud, shared services

  Iftikhar Jamil, the associate chief information officer for weather at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said the National Weather Service moved its high performance computing capabilities to a private cloud and is developing dissemination-as-a-service. September 12, 2013

  Ask the CIO

  September 12, 2013
• Obama’s second-term management agenda to focus on people power

  Speaking before the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology at the National Academy of Sciences Thursday morning, Steven VanRoekel, the federal chief information officer, said the President's second-term management agenda is building on past successes to make lasting change ordinary American citizens can feel in their everyday lives.

  Technology

  September 12, 2013
• DHS S&T director O’Toole leaving

  Tara O'Toole, the undersecretary of science and technology at the Homeland Security Department, announced she will step down after more than four years leading research and development efforts at the agency.

  Technology

  September 11, 2013
• US safer 12 years after 9/11, but threat has evolved, experts say

  While the threat of a Sept. 11-style attack may not be as great, terrorism, either of the lone-wolf or state-sponsored variety, still poses a threat to the U.S. Agencies are moving to protect themselves in areas such as cybersecurity.

  Federal Drive

  September 11, 2013
• Push for more federal data transparency gaining momentum on Capitol Hill

  House leaders say the DATA Act has a good chance at becoming law this session. Support for the bill from the Senate and the White House seems to be increasing.

  Congress

  September 11, 2013
• The state of the federal market

  Robin Portman, executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, will discuss what contractors and agencies are dealing with as they adjust to new budget realities. September 10, 2013

  Off the Shelf

  September 10, 2013
• The human aspect of security

  Terry Gudaitis , owner/principal of Mindstar Security discusses how social media impacts security at your agency. September 10, 2013

  Federal Tech Talk

  September 10, 2013