Education Department
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Supporting about 70,000 students in several time zones, the Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) has seen its share of IT challenges. Its schools began the academic year Monday, offering both in-person and virtual classroom options.
August 27, 2020 -
Mia Jordan, the CIO at the Agriculture Department’s Rural Development bureau, is leaving after 10 years to become the CIO at the Education Department’s Federal Student Aid Office.
August 25, 2020 -
Five of 10 agencies responded to Sen. Maggie Hassan’s (D-N.H.) request for details and plans for how they will modernize outdated systems and what Congress can do to help.
August 18, 2020 -
A panel of former federal technology executives offered the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations suggestions for improving the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard after five years.
August 10, 2020 -
CISOs have to approach their job differently since the pandemic forced vast amounts of the federal workforce outside of the traditional network perimeter.
July 15, 2020 -
Elizabeth Warner is an economist at the Institute of Educational Sciences. Her work is credited with creating all sorts of best practices.
June 10, 2020 -
The Education Department, SBA and GSA are releasing new software capabilities every two weeks to help modernize major programs.
June 09, 2020 -
Education Department CISO Steven Hernandez said the agency has been "tremendously productive" with a workforce that has largely worked from home during the pandemic.
May 25, 2020 -
Deltek's Kevin Plexico continued his fiscal 2021 state, local and education IT forecast with a focus on Texas and New York, plus the crucial role federal funds play in state and local IT budgets.
April 23, 2020 -
Eligibility in federal telework programs dipped slightly in 2018, while participation experienced a small bump. The latest data from the Office of Personnel Management sheds light on the state of telework across government -- before agencies were forced to quickly "maximize" it during the current pandemic.
April 16, 2020 -
GSA and DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) told agencies that the Zoom for Government platform, which runs on a government community cloud and has received a Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) moderate level approval under the cloud security program known as FedRAMP, is an agency’s best option.
April 08, 2020 -
Federal agencies have requested an additional $45.8 billion in funding for 2020 alone, which the White House said is necessary for its governmentwide response to the coronavirus. Extra telework support is at the top of the list.
March 19, 2020 -
As the Trump administration urges agencies to expand telework to employees at “higher risk” of exposure to coronavirus, the Education Department has taken steps to relax limits on how often employees can work from home.
March 13, 2020 -
Recently the Federal Labor Relations Authority turned down a request from the departments of Education and Agriculture to issue a policy statement clarifying what's a condition of employment and a working condition.
February 24, 2020 -
Jason Gray, the Education Department’s chief information officer, said fixing long-standing problems like laptops that took 20-to-40 minutes to boot up and log in and printer sprawl helped lay the groundwork for the next set of initiatives.
February 21, 2020