Digital Government
Bill Eggers, director of Public Sector Research at Deloitte, joins host John Gilroy to discuss a new survey that looks at the challenges facing government as it undergoes a digital transformation. November 3, 2015
November 02, 2015-
The Office of Personnel Management's Veronica Villalobos says the 2 percent growth in Hispanic federal employees is a sign of slow and steady progress.
November 02, 2015 -
Casey Kelley, John Cavadias and Richard Blake, members of GSA's Alliant 2 management team will discuss the program's overall acquisition strategy and goals. October 27, 2015
October 29, 2015 -
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), and 18 other members of his committee, introduced a resolution calling for IRS Commissioner John Koskinen's impeachment. Koskinen said his agency has made some progress in improving accountability and communication in the wake of IRS scandals.
October 27, 2015 -
The Census Bureau is in the midst of what it calls a digital transformation. It operates one of the biggest, but also most complex, websites in the federal government. It hopes to improve the user experience and try to make its data easier to find. Bureau officials awarded that job to Accenture. Ed Meehan is senior managing director of U.S Safety and Citizens Portfolio at Accenture. He joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the task at hand.
October 27, 2015 John Landwehr, vice president, public sector CTO at Adobe, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how document management technology and monitoring analytics can help agencies secure their data. October 27, 2015
October 26, 2015-
The Office of Management and Budget announced a new governance and oversight structure for the financial management shared services initiative. The oversight committee will create a strategy and the Unified Shared Service Management Team will drive the implementation of shared services across government.
October 23, 2015 -
The Office of Management and Budget requires agencies now to use data to make decisions about how they spend money and prioritize budget requests. The tools for making those decisions are getting easier and faster for agencies to use. Justin Brown, an IT engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss some of the data analytic solutions he's using and what kind results they yield.
October 22, 2015 -
The crowdsourcing model is coming in full force to the discussion about the future of federal information technology and management. ACT-IAC calls it crowd-versations. Tony Bardo, industry chair for ACT-IAC's Executive Leadership Conference and assistant vice president of government solutions at Hughes, offers his insight on In Depth with Francis Rose.
October 22, 2015 -
The Office of Management and Budget is updating the underlying policy for how the government buys, uses, and manages information technology. It’s known as Circular A-130. The last time OMB updated it was in 2000. Federal News Radio’s executive editor Jason Miller joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss the changes and why you should care.
October 22, 2015 -
Federal technology managers are going to Silicon Valley to look for experts who can help agencies catch up in the digital realm. Anyone who's looked at a federal website recently knows the need is there. But government work is no easy sell. Joe Castle recently found that out. He's putting together the new digital-services team at the General Services Administration. He tells Federal News Radio’s Emily Kopp he needs to hire just seven people.
October 20, 2015 -
NASA has announced a new opportunity for start-up technology companies to get a head start. Daniel Lockney is the technology transfer program executive at NASA headquarters. He tells Federal News Radio's Eric White how the agency hopes to give start-ups a boost.
October 19, 2015 Sonny Hashmi, managing director, Global Government at Box, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how his new company, Box, is helping agencies with their move to the cloud. October 20, 2015
October 15, 2015-
IBM's Watson supercomputer might be most famous for its appearance on Jeopardy, but that was back in 2011. The platform has come a long way since its game show days, and has been updated as part of IBM's new cognitive business initiative. If it's up to IBM, Watson and cognitive computing could have a big impact on the federal government. Anne Altman, the general manager of U.S. federal and government industries at IBM, joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on what's new with Watson and how government is using it.
October 15, 2015 Lou Kerestesy, founder of GovInnovators, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how innovation works in the federal government and where it is headed. October 13, 2015
October 12, 2015