Federal News Radio has learned ATARC will take over running GITEC’s major spring conference. Meanwhile, GITEC’s board of advisors will provide insight and help for ATARC's research priorities.
Mittal Desai, the chief information security officer at FERC, said his office now knows more about how the program offices use and protect information.
Jon Johnson, the director of GSA’s enterprise mobility program, said the MSCT now is looking at total cost of ownership for mobile devices and services.
After almost six years of the cloud-first policy, agencies are gaining an understanding what it takes to move to the cloud.
The Office of Management and Budget's cross-agency team of mobility experts will soon publish its ideas for an enterprise-wide mobile strategy. The team's work is the result of a final memo OMB published in August, which pushes agencies to cut back and consolidate their mobile service agreements and contracts.
Mark Schwartz, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services chief information officer, said he’s implementing something called impact mapping to better manage how his agency uses dev/ops to move off legacy systems.
Federal enterprise IT officials says agencies should embrace OMB's Data Center Optimization Initiative, and its ability to act as a springboard to governmentwide adoption of cloud computing.
The Federal Risk Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) received specific funding for the first year and is conducting pilots try to improve the approval process of cloud service providers.
If the Internet of things is a technology megatrend, federal agencies should pay attention to it. So says the non-profit Advanced Technology Academic Research Center, or ATARC. It asked professors, contractors and federal IT managers about the Internet of things and boiled the answers down into five recommendations. Mike Hettinger of ATARC told Federal Drive with Tom Temin the group started out with a question.
The Defense Department’s program to let employees use smartphones on the secret network is becoming more popular than ever imagined.