Intelligent Automation Month

Kevin Kerr, the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory CISO, said his team had to reestablish employee habits baselines and then alter security protections to account for different hours people worked since the pandemic emergency started.

The use of robotics process automation, natural language processing and other emerging technologies are gaining momentum in the federal acquisition community to speed up the entire process.

Many agencies have turned to commercial multifactor authentication solutions as an alternative to PIV cards with a huge chunk of the federal workforce still working remotely. But some of those solutions are more secure than others.

David Waltermire, the technical lead for OSCAL at NIST, and Milica Green, a compliance subject matter expert with Telos Corporation, say the development and implementation of the Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL) will reduce the time, cost and challenges of FedRAMP certifications.

Progressive Policy Institute economist Michael Mandel, and Randy Clark of the the National Spectrum Consortium joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to share more.

This week on Federal Tech Talk, Nicholas Chaillan, The Air Force’s Chief Software Officer, joins host John Gilroy to discuss Platform One and Cloud One, and why they are creative and innovative approaches to improving software for the service.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families launched a pilot last year using business intelligence tools, robotics process automation and machine learning tools to alleviate the burden on agency grant processors.

With the backing of the Army secretary, the service inaugurated a new task force this week to reimagine how its financial management systems operate.