Richard Spires

3 takeaways from FITARA 13

The 13th Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard hearing offered some ideas for future ways to measure agency IT modernization progress.

Reporter's Notebook

FITARA 13 scorecard brings truce to data center consolidation debate

Congress

ACT-IAC Accelerating Government Episode 3: Innovation

Accelerating Government

Recommendations for how the Biden administration can improve federal IT (Part II)

Commentary

Recommendations for how the Biden administration can improve federal IT

Commentary

Education pushes back, OPM opens up during FITARA hearing

Reporter's Notebook

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CIO reporting, working capital funds remain outliers in agency IT modernization progress

Congress

Private industry feels impact of partial government shutdown

Federal Drive

Allen to leave after 14 years at the helm of ACT-IAC

People

Lawmakers ‘baffled’ by state of DHS’ human resources IT

Technology

30 ways to improve federal IT reform efforts

Reporter's Notebook

Exclusive

Understanding why some federal IT projects take so long

Federal IT Dashboard data compiled exclusively for Federal News Radio shows the average time it takes an agency to complete an IT program to is 1,018 days…

Reporter's Notebook

A “blended” approach to continuous learning

Richard Spires, CEO of Learning Tree International, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how to use continuous learning to close the “skill gap” in the federal…

Federal Tech Talk

Richard Spires & Alan Balutis: Expectations for upcoming presidential transition

Federal Drive

Richard Spires, former Homeland Security Department chief information officer and CEO of Learning Tree International, and Alan Balutis, former Commerce Department CIO and senior director and distinguished fellow at Cisco Systems, discuss what challenges are ahead in the upcoming presidential transition on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.