Digital Government
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Cloud, cybersecurity and agile development —those are what federal chief information officers and their staffs will be dealing with in 2016. But all three fronts are changing. The Professional Services Council recently completed research interviews on the 2016 federal IT trends. Heading the effort was Kim Pack, the vice president of business capture specialists Wolf Den Associates. She told Federal Drive with Tom Temin how the whole forecast is put together.
January 07, 2016 -
Consultant Jesse Fewell will discuss agile software development from the perspective of the program manager, He'll discuss creative ways for federal workers to collaborate and how gaming can assist in generating software ideas. January 5, 2015
January 04, 2016 -
In 2016, the government will accelerate its move into the digital era. That's according to Mark Forman, who runs the public sector business for Unisys. He was the e-government director for the George W. Bush White House, back when online transactions with the public were just coming into the government. For our Federal Drive series, Looking ahead to 2016, Federal Drive with Tom Temin asked Forman, hasn't the government already transformed into something digital?
January 04, 2016 -
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's Office of Inspector General warned the agency that not having a centralized IT system can result in delayed assistance during a disaster.
December 31, 2015 Austin Adams, vice president at Alfresco explains how his company can help agencies with content and business process management. December 29, 2015
December 29, 2015-
Defense Department Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen has notified employees that all of the department's PCs now using any Microsoft operating system will be upgraded to Windows 10 by January 2017. Secretary Ash Carter will publish an execution order with details on the secure configuration everyone is supposed to use. Copies will come from the so-called secure host baseline image. For insight into how this will work, Federal News Radio reporter Scott Maucione spoke with Nigel Hughes, the vice president of sales at systems integrator SteelCloud. He shares the latest on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 23, 2015 -
Stephen Morris, the assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division, said the five-year effort to build the Next Generation Identification system (NGI) has delivered on its promises and then some, giving examiners faster and more accurate processing of fingerprints and other biometrics.
December 22, 2015 -
OFPP Administrator Anne Rung and federal CIO Tony Scott issue a draft policy for public comment on making enterperisewide software licenses mandatory across the government.
December 22, 2015 -
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is comparing the existing standards for Attribute Based Access Control. A new publication from the agency describes the two standards, NGAC and XACML and compares them with respect to five criteria to help users and vendors make informed decisions when addressing future data service policy enforcement requirements. David Ferraiolo, group manager of the Systems and Applications Group at NIST, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what Attribute Based Access Controls are and why they are important.
December 21, 2015 -
Ann Dunkin, the EPA chief information officer, said her office hasn’t been updated since 1999 and was in a severe need of a new approach to meet internal and external customer needs.
December 18, 2015 Jason McNutt and Chris Miller with Applied Information Sciences, join host John Gilroy to discuss some of the objectives of the General Services Administration's 18F program and the concepts behind this innovation. December 22, 2015
December 17, 2015-
The National Security Agency is preparing for an organizational change that will prepare future leaders for global threats.
December 16, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management's new Senior Cybersecurity and IT Adviser Clif Triplett shared his vision for how to address cyber threats during a wide-ranging webcast discussion on Dec. 14.
December 15, 2015 Cristina Miller and Adam Horvath with Acumen Solutions join host John Gilroy to discuss how their company can help federal agencies with their transition to the cloud. December 15, 2015
December 14, 2015-
The Air Force's personnel experts team up with cyber pros to fix downtime on the service's HR systems, which have serious domino effects each time there's an outage.
December 14, 2015