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Chris DeRusha, the federal chief information security officer, said the annual Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) report to Congress further highlights why the administration is focusing on some key areas to improve.

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On this week's Ask the CIO, Federal Chief Information Officer Clare Martorana discusses the Office of Management and Budget working on the new 21st Century IDEA Act guidance and a new IT modernization strategy.

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Kevin Cox, the outgoing program manager of the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program at CISA, said CISA has implemented the cyber dashboard at 13 CFO Act agencies and plans to provide it to all agencies later this year.

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The Air Force’s software development platform Cloud One is too vendor heavy - Cloud One has only 20 federal and military employees out of a staff of 275. But it’s not just about numbers, it’s ensuring the employees have the right skillsets to manage a DevSecOps environment as well as work in a healthy environment. Nicolas Chaillan, the Air Force’s chief software officer, and John Weiler, founder and chairman of the IT Acquisition Advisory Council, discussed it with Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller, on this week's Ask the CIO.

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The acting director of the Federal Risk Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), Brian Conrad, discusses how their program management office is taking steps to make the process easier in 2021 and beyond.

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Lisa Costa, the chief information officer of the Special Operations Command in the Defense Department, said her office is offering a DevSecOps-as-a-service approach to make it easier to push capabilities out securely.

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Federal News Network Executive Editor spoke to Alan Hill, deputy assistant commissioner for Category Management in the Office of the IT category in the General Services Administration's Federal Acquisition Service - about the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions program. Miller also spoke with Serena Reynolds, the 5G initiative lead at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, about the Federal Mobility Working Group. The group released a framework to standardize the testing of 5G devices set a security baseline and provide uses cases. Hear both conversations on this week's Ask the CIO.

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Joe Castle, a recent PhD graduate from Virginia Tech, who studied federal technology policy and open source software, and is a federal employee, said culture, public engagement, structural factors and organizational location are all drivers for why an agency would share open source code.

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On this week's Ask the CIO, Jack Gumtow, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s chief information officer, discusses how his office is leading three levels of effort to modernize the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System (JWICS) and more.

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