Social Security Administration
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Rob Klopp, the SSA chief information officer, and Rob Thomas, the deputy assistant secretary and principal deputy CIO in VA’s Office of Information and Technology, both are focusing on workforce training to move off legacy systems.
August 05, 2016 -
The Social Security Administration has a new plan to modernize five major IT systems, to the tune of $300 million. SSA Chief Information Officer Robert Klopp said the agency could make headway on the plan within a year, as long as it gets the funding it needs from Congress. The House, however, is poised to cut SSA's budget by $250 million this year.
July 15, 2016 -
Two agency leaders with experience in transitions said the keys are communication, strategic focus and fostering investment and understanding agencywide.
June 30, 2016 -
Can you imagine being in your job for 40 years? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it can do things, sometimes good, sometimes bad to a person.
June 30, 2016 -
Roughly 85 percent of current Senior Executive Service members are eligible to retire within the next 10 years. And about half can retire within the next president's first term in office. But as the administration looks to agency career leaders to steer the upcoming presidential transition, 55 percent of GS-14s and GS-15s say they're not interested in joining the SES.
June 22, 2016 -
Federal News Radio obtained a previously unreleased memo from federal CIO Tony Scott detailing 18 milestones over the next six months to make the Login.gov platform a reality.
June 13, 2016 -
Federal CIOs say when it comes to modernizing government IT systems, most of the workforce welcomes the change. But if the government truly wants to modernize, it will have to do more than try to catch up to the technology curve.
June 09, 2016 -
The 8½ inch floppy disk held up at the recent House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing was good theater, but it doesn’t tell the entire story of the state of old technology in the government.
May 31, 2016 -
Everywhere you look, the government is crying out for modernization.
May 27, 2016 -
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is particularly concerned by a penetration test the Homeland Security Department performed on the Social Security Administration's IT systems last summer, when testers gained access to personally identifiable information while they were inside. SSA did not share the findings of that report with its inspector general.
May 26, 2016 -
The Social Security Administration has a backlog of a million disability cases to process, but the leaders of a Senate oversight subcommittee say the agency's plan to reduce the backlog raises too many red flags about due process.
May 12, 2016 -
Reggie Wells, Chief Human Capital Officer of the Social Security Administration, discussed the diversity of the agency's workforce and how managers cultivated it.
April 22, 2016 -
As the Social Security Administration takes on the challenge of baby boomer retirements, it's trying all sorts of strategies to become more efficient and more in tune with the first fully online generation. Among the many initiatives, three affect the SSA's technology shop. SSA Chief Information Officer Robert Klopp tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what they are.
April 20, 2016 -
The Social Security Administration is updating its IT strategy so it can start taking advantage of the massive amounts of data it collects, and move toward data-driven decision-making.
April 15, 2016 -
The Social Security Administration deals with Americans as they age. It's workforce tends to be aging also. One reason is people tend to stay at Social Security. Reggie Wells, SSA's chief human capital officer. tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the agency's largest group of employees is not the oldest.
April 11, 2016