Business Continuity for Government Agencies

Outdated government IT systems and processes hinder many federal and state agencies’ ability to deliver services. This fact has been well known and disturbingly unresolved, even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

Stephen Horvath , vice president of Strategy & Vision at Telos, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss how his company can help federal agencies protect their sensitive information, when making the transition to the cloud.

In addition to the dirt and water the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers moves around the world for its projects, it also has to shift a considerable amount of data.

Like other agencies, the National Security Agency is doing more online collaboration these days.

The CMMC Accreditation Body will release more details on or about June 1 about how companies can become certified three-party assessment organizations and individuals can be assessors.

The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is helping the military with its supply chain during COVID-19.

Just as it is a workforce challenge for federal agencies, state and local governments are also forced to compete with the private sector for talent.

The non-profit Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, ICIT, has a new executive director, Joyce Hunter.

Dr. Charles “Chuck” Brandon, director for continuous process improvement (CPI) in the Army’s Office of Business Transformation, has gotten rid of a backlog in the Army Review Boards Agency and reduced Procurement Acquisition Lead Time.…

Paul Tibbits, VA’s executive director in the Office of Technical Integration, and Gary Stevens, VA’s deputy chief information security officer, say the cooperative research and development agreement with UL sought to raise the bar of how manufacturers should secure medical devices.