Sonny Bhagowalia

DHS moves to address the promise, and the perils, of AI

CBP is already moving forward with an effort to embed AI algorithms in screening technology, while CISA’s director has raised concerns about the “weaponization”…

Artificial Intelligence

Innovating IT infrastructure at CBP: A conversation with Sonny Bhagowalia

The Business of Government Hour

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FILE - In this Thursday, May 2, 2019 file photo, Border Patrol agents hold a news conference prior to a media tour of a new U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary facility near the Donna International Bridge in Donna, Texas. President Joe Biden’s administration is refusing to allow lawyers who inspect facilities where immigrant children are detained to enter a Border Patrol tent in Texas where agents are holding hundreds of youths. The attorneys say they were allowed to speak to children at the facility in Donna on Thursday, March 11, 2021 but were denied the chance to see the areas where the youths were being held. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

CBP CIO says agency ahead of schedule migrating apps to the cloud

IT Modernization

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OPM, VA recount digital transformation hits and misses

IT Modernization

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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2015 file photo, the Homeland Security Department headquarters in northwest Washington. President Joe Biden has selected two former senior National Security Agency officials for key cyber roles in his administration. Chris Inglis, a former NSA deputy director, is being nominated as the government's first national cyber director. Jen Easterly, a former deputy for counterterrorism at the NSA, has been tapped to run the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

CBP: ‘Always proactive and staying ahead of advanced persistent threats’

Technology

Defense workers get ethics reminder from DoD secretary

Federal Newscast

Customs and Border Protection Chief Information Officer Sonny Bhagowalia

CBP names Bhagowalia as its permanent CIO

CIO News

New mechanism for VA to screen patients, employees for coronavirus

Federal Newscast

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CBP CIO to leave after three years

CIO News

Business partnership communication and the concept of cooperation and communicate to achieve an agreement with 3D illiustration elements.

GSA, DoD kick off first test with new streamlined acquisition approach

Reporter's Notebook

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CBP’s network modernization plan centers on secure, fast access to data, systems

Ask the CIO

Upcoming IDEA Act deadlines task agencies with digital service overhaul

Under the IDEA Act, agency officials see a clearer path forward on making .gov websites more user-friendly.

Technology

OPIC, Mint to hire new CIOs while Navy CBP fill out key IT roles

The Department of Navy outlined its plan for the new CIO organization with new roles for four executives.

Reporter's Notebook

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USDA reassigns CIO, other SESers; Part of the IT exec purge?

People

Jonathan Alboum, the Agriculture Department’s chief information officer, is being transferred to the deputy senior procurement executive role.