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The Government Accountability Office ruled the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s voluntary BYOD program doesn’t violate any laws.
But both services say they hope to use the recompetition of NGEN to give commercial industry more of a hand in the IT services they're providing to sailors and marines.
Shadow IT, the stuff that's on a network that leadership doesn't know is on the network, plagues agencies across government. Shawn Kingsberry, former chief information officer at the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and director of cloud solutions at Engility Inc., tells In Depth with Francis Rose the shadow IT concept is starting to seep into the bring-your-own-device arena.
David Bray, the FCC’s chief information officer, has been creating the team, the processes and the culture to bring major changes to the way the commission manages and uses information technology.
Terry Halvorsen, DoD's chief information officer, told reporters last week that he plans to conduct a limited bring-your-own-device pilot this summer.
The Marine Corps will begin a small scale pilot in the next several weeks to determine whether commercial-grade security containers on mobile devices can meet DoD's security demands. If it's successful, Marines envision a BYOD strategy that begins implementation as soon as next year.
Sonny Hashmi, acting CIO at GSA, said his goal is to have at least half of all employees using VDI in 2014 and 75 percent by the end of 2015. VDI, along with application rationalization and other initiatives, is part of how GSA is looking to reduce IT spending further. April 3, 2014
Angel Santa, the deputy CIO at the Office of Justice Programs, said an acquisition is possible in the coming months for a wireless network as part of an effort to make employees more mobile ready. March 20, 2014
Rob Anderson, the chief of the Vision and Strategy Division in the Marine Corps Command, Control, Communication and Computers (C4) office, said reducing the monthly data and voice fees for even 50 percent of the current employees using BlackBerrys could mean as much as $5 million that the Marines could transfer to readiness and operations and maintenance accounts. March 13, 2014
Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller joins host Mark Amtower to talk about a number of Federal IT issues. January 13, 2014
David Bray has been the FCC's chief information officer for about two months and already has six priorities to improve how the commission meets its mission. January 2, 2014
Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller joins host Mark Amtower to talk about a number of Federal IT issues. December 9, 2013
As the Defense Department builds out a technology infrastructure that's designed to be the latest generation of commercial mobile devices into users' hands, it's still unsure how to meet a key security requirement: identity management systems that comply with the military's existing requirements for secure user authentication.
David Bray has been the FCC's chief information officer for about two months and already has six priorities to improve how the commission meets its mission. November 14, 2013