Digital Transformation

Sean Frazier, federal CSO at Okta, discusses identity management, lifecycle management, and some of the challenges of identification for Robotic Process Automation.

A coalition of agencies led by the Office of Personnel Management is putting out a governmentwide call to hire data scientists at a faster pace than what would normally happen under the federal hiring system.

Public-private partnerships are ubiquitous throughout the federal government; agencies rely on contractors for capabilities they don’t themselves have the ability to deliver, many of them revolving around technology.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy, known as ARPA-E, has just awarded some $47 million to seven companies doing innovative work in energy. With more, ARPA-E Director Lane Genatowski joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

President-elect Joe Biden announces his American Rescue Plan that includes significant funding increases for federal technology and cybersecurity to address long-standing challenges.

The Defense Information Systems Agency started implementing functionality from the $7.6 billion contract on Thursday, deploying DEOS capabilities first to the agency’s own users.

Federal agencies – and there are several of them at least – affected by the SolarWinds cybersecurity fiasco are under a new deadline.

In today’s Federal Newscast, GSA is removing all drones from Multiple Award Schedule Contracts that do not have the approval of the Defense Department.