The Homeland Security Department’s procurement shop was busier than ever last year, spending almost $24 billion on about 60,000 transactions.

Shane Barney, the chief information security officer at USCIS, and Miguel Adams, the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s CISO, both say the need to educate and train the business customers on zero trust is important to their…

Dave Lago, a product manager for DISA’s Hosting and Compute Center, said the Vulcan tool set includes several commercial software capabilities to help DoD modernize software.

Gundeep Ahluwalia, the chief information officer for the Labor Department, said three funding sources, two-year appropriations, a working capital fund and the Technology Modernization Fund, is giving the agency the resources to move to the…

In the Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management Enterprise Risk Management’s (AFERM) 8th annual survey of federal officials found a strong majority say ERM programs encompass a holistic view of mission and mission support functions.

A panel of federal and industry experts describe each of their approaches to achieving a zero trust architecture to improve the security of systems and data.

Raj Iyer’s last day as the Army’s chief information officer is Feb. 10, after which he plans to return to industry but continue to support the service’s transformation efforts.

NASA is reconstituting its data analysis team to improve its decision making around acquisition. The idea of using data to drive decisions isn’t new for NASA. But with the move to centralize much of acquisition…

Patrick Newbold, the deputy chief information officer, and Rob King, the chief data officer, at the Social Security Administration said technology and data modernization are driving better services to internal and external customers.

Chad Clifford, the executive director of the Grants QSMO at the Department of Health and Human Services, said their goal is to improve the customer’s experience by giving them the tools to help drive greater…

David Larrimore, the Homeland Security Department’s chief technology officer, said a draft charter to create an agencywide CTO council is close to being final.

Chris DeRusha, the federal chief information security officer, said new FISMA metrics will ask agencies for more granular data on how they are meeting administration priorities.

Paul Puckett, the former director of the Enterprise Cloud Management Agency (ECMA) in the Army’s CIO office, said the cloud is not only demonstrating value, but are also fundamentally changing the way that the Army…

A group of former agency chief information officers and other technology executives is offering some specific suggestions for how to evolve the FITARA scorecard in a white paper from ACT-IAC.