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June 29, 2018 The benefit, curse of senor technology pushes the Air Force to try something different
Frank Konieczny, the CTO for the Office of Information Dominance and chief information officer in the Air Force, said the service is figuring out how to authenticate connected devices.
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June 26, 2018 EXIM Bank addresses nuts, bolts of IT modernization
The Export-Import Bank of the U.S. received an unusual report from its inspector general. Auditors praised the agency’s efforts to modernize its infrastructure and deploy new systems.
Howard Spira, the chief information officer of EXIM, said on Ask the CIO with Jason Miller that he focused the agency on the nuts and bolts of operations and maintenance to create this successful approach.
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June 15, 2018 Through CoEs, USDA starts proving what's possible with IT modernization
The Agriculture Department is moving closer to ending the planning stage and entering the operational stage of the Trump administration’s Centers of Excellence IT modernization initiative. USDA and the General Services Administration will host a CoE phase 2 planning session on June 27 for contractors to learn about their procurement strategies. The details from phase GSA and USDA awarded four vendors contracts to support phase 1 in March.
Gary Washington, the USDA chief information officer, said his agency as well as GSA, detailees and vendors helping on this transformation effort have to keep one very important fact in mind: This is not about technology.
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June 08, 2018 Before buying technology, NNSA performs a cyber checkup
Wayne Jones, the chief information officer at the NNSA, said he is taking a hybrid approach to modernizing systems and applications.
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June 01, 2018 Intelligence Community brings on Microsoft as key piece to second epoch of ICITE
John Sherman, the Intelligence Community’s chief information officer, wanted to tamp down any rumors about why the IC signed a deal to bring Microsoft’s cloud into the mix. He tells it all to Executive Editor Jason Miller on Ask the CIO.
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May 24, 2018 4 bots relieve NASA employees from doing ‘low-value’ work
Pam Wolfe, the chief of the Enterprise Services Division in the NASA Shared services office, said because of robotics process automation, her office can review grant applications more quickly.
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May 18, 2018 How OMB is moving CIOs from cost center to value add
GSA started down the path using the Technology Business Management (TBM) framework more than two years ago. David Shive, the chief information officer for GSA, said he began with TBM for purely selfish reasons.
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May 10, 2018 U.S. Digital Service helps CMS with ‘novel’ approach to IT modernization
Jonathan Sullivan, a digital services expert at the U.S. Digital Service, said modernizing the Quality Payment Program for CMS required a change in approach.
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May 07, 2018 From 120 hours to 34 minutes, SBA transforms small business application processes
The U.S. Digital Service helped SBA modernize the applications to apply for government contracting programs.
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April 27, 2018 With urgency, VA deploys new capabilities to fix services almost every day
The Veterans Affairs Department is working on no less than 11 different modernization projects to improve the Vets.gov portal. These include straightforward efforts like getting VA to the cloud and improving procurement of technology. Marvo Dolor, the deputy executive director of digital services at the VA, said one of the more challenging initiatives was to create a single-sign on capability for the Vets.gov portal.
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Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller talks to federal chief information officers about the latest technology trends and issues facing their agencies.