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Early adopters hail the potential of Internet of Things, but no one is willing to commit until some very serious challenges are overcome and certain policies are put in place governmentwide.
Health care IT experts and members of the communication sector say 5G, the next generation of wireless, can improve the medical field for patients and providers.
Agency IT leaders bemoan restrictions with policy and the rapid speed of the Internet of Things environment as major barriers to deploying new commercial IoT devices in the field.
Stung by breaches and facing a rasher of policy mandates, federal agencies are using network upgrades as opportunities to improve cybersecurity. Lee Kelly, IT specialist and special assistant to the Environmental Protection Agency's senior information security officer, spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how the internet of things and big data are affecting EPA's network security.
DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson defended his agency's $40.6 billion fiscal 2017 budget, telling a congressional committee that cybersecurity funding would help hiring efforts.
Jason Kimrey, area director, US Federal, Intel Coporation, joins host John Gilroy to discuss data transfers and how to harness the power of the "Internet of Things". February 23, 2016
The FCC becomes the latest agency to fully move to the more secure protocol. NIST's scorecard shows agency progress over the last decade.
If the Internet of things is a technology megatrend, federal agencies should pay attention to it. So says the non-profit Advanced Technology Academic Research Center, or ATARC. It asked professors, contractors and federal IT managers about the Internet of things and boiled the answers down into five recommendations. Mike Hettinger of ATARC told Federal Drive with Tom Temin the group started out with a question.
The Defense Department could be saving money and increasing efficiency with the Internet of Things, it just needs to broaden some of its ideas, states a new report.
While industry is excited about the Internet of Things, agencies have shown they've been interconnecting systems and applications for years. But the Privacy Act is standing in the government's way to go further, some say.
The Internet of Things may change the way the Postal Service does business but not in the way it looks on the surface. The Internet of Things may take the Postal Service beyond technology like real-time package tracking. Paola Piscioneri, director of global and digital at the office of Inspector General at the U.S. Postal Service, tells In Depth with Francis Rose how the technology is already helping organizations like the postal service.
Contractors, government relationship feeling the impact of cutting-edge technology, resulting in potentially cheaper and more efficient manufacturing.
The Internet of Things has lots of promise. Program managers and researchers of all types can get a clearer view of what is going on in their world when they can process information from unlimited numbers of data gathering points. But the expansion of network traffic and data from the Internet of Things also carries serious new cybersecurity threats. Chris Eng is the vice president of research at Veracode. He's studied the security implications, and joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to review them.
Megan Smith, the federal chief technology officer says agencies need employees with a high technical quotient to help build digital services. Four months into the job, Smith said digital services, policy and innovation, and STEM are her top priorities.