Environmental Protection Agency

• IT leaders crave flexibility, better OPM guidance to fill skills gaps

  Agencies need clearer hiring authorities from the Office of Personnel Management to successfully recruit and hire new tech talent, said Beth Killoran, acting CIO at the Health and Human Services Department. HHS has a 40 percent vacancy rate among its cyber and IT infrastructure workforce.

  Hiring/Retention

  February 18, 2016
• 2017 budget breakdown

  Here's a breakdown of major agencies and the proposed funding amounts for fiscal 2017, which are included the President Obama's $1.1 trillion budget.

  Budget

  February 09, 2016
• Two IT executives on the move from DHS

  Sandy Peavy retired from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center as its CIO. Former EPA IT executive Brand Niemann passed away at 74.

  People

  February 08, 2016
• Lack of EPA oversight let Flint water crisis go from bad to worse

  At a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Wednesday, members and witnesses grilled the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) for relaying inaccurate information to EPA officials, but also laid blame on the EPA for failing to investigate more closely once signs of misconduct became clear.

  Congress

  February 03, 2016
• Agency CIOs revolt against arduous budget process

  The CIO Council is trying to bring the capital planning and investment control (CPIC) process in line with the desire by agencies to use agile development for IT programs.

  Budget

  January 25, 2016
• Flint redux: Scandal claims a federal official

  A Region 5 email reads like CYA, not someone with the power to do something, jumping in and helping with the real problem.

  Tom Temin Commentary

  January 22, 2016
• Officials push a U.S. city into Third World status

  The Safe Drinking Water Act requires the EPA to set standards for drinking water. It's safe to say, what was coming out of the taps in Flint doesn't qualify.

  Tom Temin Commentary

  January 18, 2016
• Greg Godbout & Robin Thottungal: Data can help federal decision-making

  Data has become the life blood of decision-making at many federal agencies. Greg Godbout is one of the leaders in federal data adoption. Now the chief technology officer at the Environmental Protection Agency, he's helping decision-making at both the federal and state levels. Federal Drive with Tom Temin interviewed Godbout and the agency's chief data scientist, Robin Thottungal, for an update on data initiatives. Godbout explained how data innovation can keep federal executives from making bad decisions on what they don't really know.

  Federal Drive

  December 01, 2015
• Renee Wynn: New NASA CIO discusses cybersecurity plans

  Even for long-serving federal managers, moving from one federal department to another can produce some surprises. Systems, cultures, people might all be different. Just a few short weeks into her job as NASA chief information officer, Renee Wynn has a lot of work to do. Recently decamped from EPA, she compared the two agencies for Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

  Federal Drive

  November 30, 2015
• The state of federal technology: ‘A crisis bigger than Y2K’

  Federal chief information officer Tony Scott said agencies are spending too much of their money on legacy technology that can’t easily be secured, and the people who have built and supported it are leaving government service. HUD, EPA, SSA and the Patent and Trademark Office are among the agencies trying to transform their IT infrastructures.

  Management

  November 18, 2015
• Agencies see FITARA as a welcome nudge to uncover management issues

  Agencies are slowly beginning to embrace that a culture change among top management is coming, as they begin to implement FITARA. Federal CIO Tony Scott said he's pleased overall with the plans agencies have submitted to the Office of Management and Budget so far.

  Management

  October 30, 2015
• New threat of shutdown rehashes old fears for feds

  AFGE reminds Congress, White House and others of the concerns feds had during the last government shutdown and the impact the work stoppage had on them and their families in 2013.

  Government Shutdown

  September 18, 2015
• Greg Godbout: EPA CTO serves internal IT, mission delivery folks

  The mission of the General Services Administration's 18-F is spreading across government now. Its former executive director, Greg Godbout, was one of the first to take its mission to another agency. Godbout, now the chief technology officer at the Environmental Protection Agency, told In Depth with Francis Rose his vision for the CTO's office is to serve both the internal IT team and the mission delivery people.

  All News

  September 15, 2015
• NASA, Energy, Commerce rearrange seats in CIO’s office

  The federal technology community is seeing a lot of key senior executives switch roles or leave government, including new officials in charge of data analytics at GSA and EPA.

  People

  September 08, 2015