In today's Federal Newscast, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration says a high number of IT workers at the IRS are eligible to retirement.
The Biden administration is asking for a 2.4% increase and a 14% increase in federal IT and cybersecurity spending, respectively, in fiscal 2022.
Federal Chief Information Officer Clare Martorana said OMB is working on new 21st Century IDEA Act guidance and a new IT modernization strategy.
President Joe Biden mandated dozens of new steps to address long-standing cybersecurity challenges in a new executive order signed Wednesday.
Federal CIO Clare Martorana told Federal News Network that the TMF board will receive additional resources to review proposals if necessary.
Perryn Ashmore, the chief information officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, will leave after seven years at the agency.
OMB released new guidance to agencies today for how the Technology Modernization Fund board will loan out the windfall funding Congress approved.
Kevin Walsh, a director on the Government Accountability Office's IT and cybersecurity team, had the latest on GAO's High Risk List on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
GAO told the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations that CIO authorities improved across five agencies over the course of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard.
Clare Martorana, the current chief information officer for the Office of Personnel Management, is the new Federal CIO.
Sonny Bhagowalia has been the deputy CIO at the Customs and Border Protection directorate since 2018.
Greg Garcia, the Army's deputy chief information officer, announced in an email to staff that his last day would be Feb. 27.
Raj Iyer, the Army's new chief information officer, is proposing a new IT governance structure that would be chaired by the Army CIO's office. The current decisionmaking process is too diffuse, he argues.
Rocky Campione, the agency's chief information officer, is leaving in April -- while Wayne Jones, associate administrator for information management and CIO at the National Nuclear Security Administration, has retired.
Eric Hysen worked on the Biden transition team before heading to Homeland Security.