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As technology has figuratively led to a shrinking of the Earth, the State Department has embraced cloud technology to streamline and organize its IT organization, the Bureau of Information Resource Management.
Read moreFederal agencies are some dozen years into concerted efforts at cloud computing adoption. Policy has evolved from the initial cloud first to the current cloud smart. And the commercial cloud services industry has also come a long way, as providers have grown from simply infrastructure hosts.
Among the reasons federal agencies should pursue multiple cloud computing strategies is simply this: Commercial clouds are not identical. They not only have varying technical offerings, they also have varying degrees of maturity and therefore suitability for what a government agency might be trying to accomplish.
The Army Corps of Engineers operates in both the military and civilian realms, whether dredging bases to maintain warship access to bases or looking after the health of dams and levees that protect cities. Its information needs match the diversity of its missions.
The recent Crowdstrike outage has shown everything that can go wrong when doing a simple update.
Drew Mykelgard, the deputy federal chief information officer at OMB, said the updated FedRAMP policy pushes for more automation, reciprocity.
Space Hour host Eric White spoke to Dylan Powell, Lead Strategist for Weather and Earth Science at Lockheed Martin.
The IT challenges come as multiple agencies have been forced to close their offices for hours or even a full day due to a shortage of federal security guards.
The IRS is managing hundreds of legacy HR IT systems with thousands of workflows, but deferred upgrading these systems when the agency faced budget cuts.
Opting for career SES officials or appointees who don’t need Senate confirmation may be the most effective way to minimize persistent leadership vacancies.
Brandon Wales is the second senior leader to depart CISA in recent months. He led many of CISA’s internal and external initiatives over the last three years.
New research from NASA shows that the building blocks of life beyond Earth may not be hard to find were we ever to send a probe to do some digging around.