Agriculture Department
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Amid the "chaos and complexity" of the Internet of Things are basic cybersecurity rules agencies can follow to secure devices but not suffocate innovation.
September 21, 2017 -
The reorganization plans of three agencies show a trend of consolidating, centralizing back-office functions.
September 18, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the security contractor TigerSwan says a former recruiting vendor accidentally made thousands of its resume files publicly available. They included personal information of thousands of former servicemembers.
September 06, 2017 -
Secretary Sonny Perdue names Gary Washington to be acting CIO and two others to take on acting management roles.
September 05, 2017 -
After almost six years of the cloud-first policy, agencies are gaining an understanding what it takes to move to the cloud.
August 28, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a new mobile app provides insight for federal employees when facing dilemmas in government ethics.
August 24, 2017 -
Jonathan Alboum, the Agriculture Department’s chief information officer, is being transferred to the deputy senior procurement executive role.
August 09, 2017 -
The Agriculture Department's research and development in 2016 yielded 244 new inventions and 109 patent applications.
August 02, 2017 -
Getting to full benefit of cloud deployments means substantial reengineering of applications, as opposed to simply the lift-and-shift approach. But Chad Sheridan, the chief information officer of the Agriculture Department’s Risk Management Agency, says federal agencies aren’t quite there yet.
July 14, 2017 -
Thanks to the work of Jitender Dubey, a microbiologist at the Agriculture Research Service, we now understand how toxoplasma gondii gets transmitted, avoiding countless illnesses and hospitalization. For his work, he's a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals program. He joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about his work and the honor.
July 07, 2017 -
Former federal CIO Tony Scott and former SSA CIO Rob Klopp are both launched new companies while Mark Schwartz, the outgoing CIO at USCIS, announced he’s heading to Amazon Web Services.
June 26, 2017 -
Agency leaders are reviewing tens of thousands of comments from their employees and the public on ways to make government more effective and efficient. In speaking with their workforces about their ideas, most leaders say the focus has generally been on how the agency can better deliver the mission and services to the public, not on forthcoming personnel cuts.
June 15, 2017 -
The National Reconnaissance Office has lost its chief information officer, Donna Hansen, to the private sector, while former Bush administration appointee Scott Cameron returns to the Interior Department.
May 30, 2017 -
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told federal employees he won't seek workforce cuts as part of the agency-by-agency government reorganization called for by President Donald Trump.
May 15, 2017 -
In part one of Federal News Radio's special report on the DATA Act, Treasury Department and Office of Management and Budget officials say the three-year implementation is going well, while agency managers breathe a sigh of relief even as they prepare for the next step in standardized federal spending reports.
May 10, 2017