Agriculture Department
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Commerce, USDA, Transportation demonstrate augmented role of CIO to manage significant projects and make much-needed change.
May 02, 2016 -
Multiple Department of Agriculture agencies showed off their scientific expertise at the fourth USA Science & Engineering Festival.
April 18, 2016 -
As the White House decides who should be the first federal chief information security officer, current and former federal cyber executives offer insights into what the role should look like.
April 11, 2016 -
Cold weather did not deter NASA officials and Washington-area students from helping first lady Michelle Obama plant seedlings in the White House Kitchen Garden on Tuesday. Across the National Mall, USDA employees participated in a spring planting at the People's Garden.
April 06, 2016 -
Janet Stevens, the chief information officer of the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in USDA, said her bureau will join APHIS in testing out new cyber tools and sensors under the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program.
April 01, 2016 -
The Department of Agriculture provides hands-on displays and examples of flora and fauna -- including bats, bees and butterflies -- to the 2016 White House Easter Egg Roll.
March 29, 2016 -
Agencies say the guidance and tools that the Office of Personnel Management gives to department headquarters often does not filter down to components in the field. OPM began the first of its listening and training tours last week on the federal hiring process.
March 18, 2016 -
Darren Ash is leaving the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after spending almost nine years as its chief information officer.
February 17, 2016 -
As OMB presses agencies to spend more money on new or modernized systems, some federal CIOs and other IT executives say modernizing the definition of legacy systems is an important starting point.
February 15, 2016 -
Here's a breakdown of major agencies and the proposed funding amounts for fiscal 2017, which are included the President Obama's $1.1 trillion budget.
February 09, 2016 -
Ray Coleman, the chief information officer of the Natural Resources Conservation Service in the Agriculture Department, and James Porter, an IT portfolio manager for Immigration and Customs Enforcement at DHS, say their agencies have a better understanding of where new IT efforts exist.
January 22, 2016 -
Suppose you trained to take care of livestock, maybe the family fido. You might not expect to end up as the number two executive at a large federal department. But that's what happened to Greg Parham, the assistant secretary of Agriculture for administration. He was also named as a few fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration. Parham told Federal Drive with Tom Temin there's just something about public management.
December 07, 2015 -
Jeff Press, from the Commerce Department, and Billy Milton, from the Agriculture Department, joined a growing list of federal executives moving on from government service.
November 16, 2015 -
Agencies are slowly beginning to embrace that a culture change among top management is coming, as they begin to implement FITARA. Federal CIO Tony Scott said he's pleased overall with the plans agencies have submitted to the Office of Management and Budget so far.
October 30, 2015 -
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 required the Agriculture Department to set different standards for school lunches. The food may be healthier, but now USDA faces a new problem: many students can't stomach the food.
October 21, 2015