Jonathan Alboum

• USDA to block 400 websites after IG finds employees looking at porn

  At the same time, Chris Lowe, the chief information security officer at USDA, is being reassigned to a bureau level role as part of a continued house cleaning of IT officials.

  Reporter's Notebook

  March 05, 2018
• Advice to CIOs: ‘Don’t pooh-pooh the IT modernization guidance’

  OMB issued the instructions for how agencies can apply for the central fund to move off legacy systems.

  Reporter's Notebook

  March 05, 2018
• IG: DHS needs better way of making sure suspended contractors actually get suspended

  In today's Federal Newscast, a new report from the Homeland Security Department's Office of Inspector General finds the agency has no centralized database to make sure suspended companies don't compete for new contracts.

  Federal Newscast

  January 30, 2018
• USDA names 3 to acting roles to fill holes left by reassignments

  Secretary Sonny Perdue names Gary Washington to be acting CIO and two others to take on acting management roles.

  People

  September 05, 2017
• Data center optimization framed in cybersecurity, customer service terms for Trump administration

  Advocating data center consolidation and optimization as a priority could be a tough sell to the Donald Trump administration, but the federal IT community has courted the White House by framing the issue within the narrative of the president's soon-to-emerge cybersecurity executive order.

  Cybersecurity

  March 23, 2017
• NASA’s ongoing cyber woes prompts Administrator, CEO meeting

  NASA Administrator Charles Bolden met with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services CEO Meg Whitman in October to discuss ongoing challenges with the $2.5 billion ACES contract.

  Cybersecurity

  November 17, 2016
• Collaboration, cloud leading to consolidation of 17 USDA networks

  Jonathan Alboum, USDA’s chief information officer, said he is working through the agency’s CIO Council to develop a concept of operations to modernize the agency’s networks and move to the cloud.

  Ask the CIO

  July 22, 2016
• Roots of IT reform starting to take hold

  Commerce, USDA, Transportation demonstrate augmented role of CIO to manage significant projects and make much-needed change.

  Reporter's Notebook

  May 02, 2016
• The CIO shuffle continues across several agencies

  Breaking news on Monday: NASA is getting a new deputy chief information officer. Sources say Renee Wynn is moving to the space agency after spending the last four years as the Environmental Protection Agency’s deputy…

  People

  June 30, 2015
• Alboum gets moving with technology to help solve problems at the Food and Nutrition Service

  This week\'s guest is Jonathan Alboum, chief information officer at the Agriculture Department\'s Food and Nutrition Service. July 8, 2010

  Ask the CIO

  July 07, 2010