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Bill Vajda, Interior’s chief information officer, said IT modernization is letting the agency train its employees to be problem solvers and not focused on wires and pliers.

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Essye Miller, the principal deputy chief information officer at DoD, is retiring from federal service on June 30 after more than 35 years in government.

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Erin Joe, the director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC), said the Cyber Threat Framework is creating a common lexicon for agencies to understand and discuss potential and real security threats and vulnerabilities.

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When the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Food and Drug Administration wanted to add cyber rigor to medical devices they turned to a familiar name. VA and the FDA worked with the Underwriter’s Laboratory (UL) to develop new standards and practical certification approaches for connected medical devices. Through a cooperative research and development agreement, the three organizations demonstrated that the use of the UL 2900 Series of standards, related product testing and certification gave the VA greater confidence and assurance of the medical devices. Hear more from VA's Gary Stevens and Paul Tibbits on this week's Ask the CIO with host Jason Miller, Federal News Network executive editor.

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Dr. Gil Alterovitz, the director of the National Artificial Intelligence Institute at VA, said during a recent AFCEA Bethesda panel that the agency recent completed an AI tech sprint, which involves VA and private sector companies using agency data.

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For much of the past two years, the Small Business Administration has been on a mission to standardize and consolidate its cybersecurity tools and services. In many ways, SBA is modeling what the future of cybersecurity looks like for many agencies. Guy Cavallo, the deputy CIO at SBA, said the agency plans to continue to evolve its cybersecurity tools and strategy through the use of a zero trust framework. Hear his conversation with Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller on Ask the CIO.

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Nearly a year to the date of launching its new approach to shared services, the Office of Management and Budget moved the first offering from interim to permanent. This decision means this new approach to shared services also can finally move from theory to practice. Suzette Kent, the federal chief information officer, said the designation of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as a cybersecurity shared service center is an important milestone for the government for many reasons. Hear more on Ask the CIO, with Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller.

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All the pieces of the Air Force’s digital modernization roadmap finally are in place. It’s been a two-year effort to arrange the money, the oversight and the governance that will make the strategy successful. Bill Marion, the outgoing deputy chief information officer of the Air Force, said this structure will make it easier for the next deputy CIO to pick up where he left off and accelerate the pace of transformation. He spoke more to Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller on Ask the CIO.

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Deputy chief information security officers at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office say they are in the middle of expanding and maturing their approaches to cybersecurity.

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