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The Labor Department is showing the true power of the Technology Modernization Fund. With the fund’s goal being to help agencies accelerate existing technology projects, Labor received $3.5 million to help move off paper-based labor certifications to electronic processes. Gundeep Ahluwalia, the Labor Department’s chief information officer, said TMF funding is just one funding sources for the agency’s bigger IT modernization effort. Hear more on this week's Ask the CIO with host Jason Miller.

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In naming a chief data officer, the Army and the Air Force took different approaches with an eye toward the same goal. The Army dual-hatted its deputy chief information officer with CDO responsibilities. The Air Force named a specific individual to oversee and manage its data. But no matter the path the military services, or really any agency, takes, it’s all about extracting more value out of the data they have and taking advantage of the information in different ways. For this week's Ask the CIO, host Jason Miller spoke to Greg Garcia, the deputy CIO and chief data officer for the Army, and Eileen Vidreen, current Air Force CDO, at the AFCEA NOVA Small Business Enterprise IT Day.

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Ryan Woodward, the Director of the Franchise Budget Office for Infrastructure Operations in the Office of Information and Technology at VA, said the agency has spent the last few years learning how to apply Technology Business Management (TBM) standards and now are starting to see the results of that effort.

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The two lynchpin initiatives under the Air Force’s network modernization effort are set to take major steps forward in 2020. Through both the enterprise-IT-as-a-service (EITaaS) and the Cloud One platform, Air Force is taking an aggressive approach to fix systemic network issues. Lauren Knausenberger, the chief transformation officer for the Air Force, said both of these initiatives are about setting the foundational infrastructure in place and ensuring it will serve the service for decades. She joined Ask the CIO to discuss more with Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller.

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Few, if any, are left at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service’s security operations center who just stare at screens looking for cyber anomalies. Instead of using people, USCIS automated those basic functions in order to free up valuable people to work on more complex cybersecurity challenge. Shane Barney, the chief information security officer at USCIS at the Department of Homeland Security, and Togi Andrews, the CISO at FEMA, joined Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller for a panel during the recent AFCEA Bethesda breakfast to discuss the issue. Hear more on Ask the CIO.

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As every agency tries to make sense of the ever-growing mounds of data it collects, this big data challenge is giving them the opportunity to experiment and even take some smart risks. At the departments of Agriculture, and Housing and Urban Development, those pilots are paying real dividends to improve program performance. Jenny Rone, the assistant inspector general for data science at USDA, said over the past year, her staff has thrown the proverbial spaghetti against the wall to see how they can make the data work for them. Meanwhile, HUD is using data to measure risk was at the heart of several proof-of-concepts. Larry Koskinen, the department's chief risk officer, said the agency received an innovation grant from the Treasury Department to help make better sense of A-133 single audits. Hear more on this week's Ask the CIO, hosted by Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller.

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As every agency tries to make sense of the ever-growing mounds of data it collects, this big data challenge is giving them the opportunity to experiment and even take some smart risks. At the departments of Agriculture, and Housing and Urban Development, those pilots are paying real dividends to improve program performance. Jenny Rone, the assistant inspector general for data science at USDA, said over the past year, her staff has thrown the proverbial spaghetti against the wall to see how they can make the data work for them. Meanwhile, HUD is using data to measure risk was at the heart of several proof-of-concepts. Larry Koskinen, the department's chief risk officer, said the agency received an innovation grant from the Treasury Department to help make better sense of A-133 single audits. Hear more with Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller on Ask the CIO.

Roger Greenwell, the chief information officer, the authoring official and risk management executive at DISA, said the agency is focused on understanding where the cyber threats are, how does it take that information and make sure they are addressing those key protection priorities.

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Matt Goodrich, the former director of the cloud security program known as FedRAMP and now is a principal solutions engineer and security specialist at Salesforce, said he survived personal and professional attacks by his own stubbornness and the fact what his team was doing was right.

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The General Services Administration and the Energy Department are taking two different paths to achieve the same goal—reducing cyber risk. Energy Department Chief Information Security Officer Emery Csulak joined Ask the CIO to talk about his agency's efforts.

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