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Ed Leonard, the Washington D.C. Fire and EMS Agency chief information officer, said when a recent CSX train went off track, the lack of interoperability hampered some of the information sharing between his office and his federal counterparts.
Chuck Sackley, a senior vice president, North America industry sales verticals at Unify, makes the case that technologies such as cloud and VOIP is making it easier to update agency networks.
Jason McNutt and Larry Katzman with Applied Information Sciences, discuss what agencies should do once their complex migration to the cloud is complete. July 5, 2016
Adam Levithan, Shawn Mitchell and Jai Dargan from Metalogix will discuss how their company can help your agency move to the cloud. June 28, 2016
Dan Katz, technical director for the public sector at Acquia, makes the case for cloud platforms and open source software for digital experience management as a way for agencies to more easily and quickly migrate to a digital environment.
Keith Bluestein, the acting chief information officer of the SBA, said the agency has been upgrading its network backbone as a precursor to being able to take advantage of new technologies such as the cloud.
Deborah Pierre-Louis, director of IT Security Policy, Liaison, and Training, Bureau of Information Resource Management, Department of State, discusses cybersecurity training, perimeter-based security, and security by design. June 14, 2016
Keith Trippie, the CEO of The Trippie Group LLC and a public sector board member of Acquia, says agencies should follow the lead of dating, travel and insurance companies and have an “easy” button for system modernization.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced he is adding three members to the Defense Innovation Advisory Board. Two of them are technologists and Silicon Valley regulars.
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) said agencies are too selective about what they choose to include or omit in their progress reports on customer service. Instead, agencies should challenge themselves and begin holding themselves to higher performance standards, he added.
Administrator Denise Turner Roth said all facets of GSA will need to support the standup of the Technology Transformation Service.
The Army is adding more migration teams as it moves more of its networks to the Joint Regional Security Stacks (JRSS). Other services will follow soon suit, said David Cotton, DoD's deputy chief information officer for information enterprise.
The Navy is considering multisourcing its next NGEN contract.
A third report in a year suggests OPM continues to struggle to develop a credible business case and now will have trouble paying for the network and security upgrades.