Digital Government
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The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing May 25 on legacy IT systems where Federal CIO Tony Scott will have maybe the administration’s best chance to make its case for Congress to support the IT Modernization Fund.
May 23, 2016 -
Michael Jeffries, the chief information officer of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, said version 2 of the agency’s e-file system is based on user feedback and needs.
May 19, 2016 -
On a quest for more innovative technology, more agencies are opening up satellite offices in Silicon Valley. But some start-ups and venture capitalists say working with the federal government is a hard sell, because the procurement process takes too long and presents too many unknowns.
May 18, 2016 Rusty Pickens, senior advisor for Digital Platforms for Public Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how to use collaboration to integrate complex IT systems. May 17, 2016
May 16, 2016-
The space agency released its entire source selection document for why it chose SAIC over CACI for a $447.8 million award.
May 16, 2016 -
The Homeland Security Department’s Science and Technology Directorate hosted its first industry day in Silicon Valley and about 200 companies showed up as part of the federal government’s outreach to start-ups.
May 13, 2016 -
The General Services Administration inspector general issued a management alert saying the 18F organization didn’t follow agency policy and may have caused a cyber breach.
May 13, 2016 -
Chris Chilbert, the chief information officer of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, said among his top priorities is increasing the bandwidth and redundancy of his office’s computer infrastructure.
May 12, 2016 Richard Spires, CEO of Learning Tree International, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how to use continuous learning to close the "skill gap" in the federal government. May 10, 2016
May 09, 2016The General Services Administration is creating a new service to host its high-tech offerings. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin if the new organization is step up for those GSA functions, or will another layer of bureaucracy bog them down?
May 09, 2016-
Both agencies are using different portfolio management approaches to better oversee and control spending on commodity technology.
May 09, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget is reminding agencies what is expected of them as the countdown begins for the DATA Act's full implementation in May 2017.
May 09, 2016 -
Greg Garcia, the chief information officer/G6 of the Army Corps of Engineers, said the Defense Department’s mandated transition to Windows 10 is a top of mind priority, but he is balancing that with cyber, cloud and other priorities.
May 06, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget released a new memo May 4 formalizing existing initiatives and creating new efforts to help agencies move to shared services more easily.
May 04, 2016 -
GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth announced May 3 the creation of the Technology Transformation Service, which brings together 18F, the Presidential Innovation Fellows program and the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies (OCSIT).
May 03, 2016