Digital Government
Help Pick This Year’s Government All-Star Team
Nominations are open for the second annual Theodore Roosevelt Government Leadership Awards.
Modernization
State Department CIO’s Plan to Reengineer Agency’s IT Process
The shift to cloud computing and agile development hit the State Department’s “sweet spot,” says CIO Stuart McGuigan.
Emerging Tech
The VA’s First Chief Innovation Officer Aims to Speed Up the Delivery of Cost-Saving Services
Michael Akinyele’s mission is to find ways to innovate health care delivery and scale it across the enterprise.
Digital Government
Unclear NSA CIO Role Puts the Agency’s IT at Risk, IG Says
Auditors report the position is not even in the agency’s organizational chart.
Cybersecurity
Another Poor Cybersecurity Audit at State Department Draws Scrutiny
Auditors have been reporting weaknesses in IT security controls for over a decade.
Cybersecurity
DOD CIO Is Prepping Guidance on Endpoint Management
The department aims to clarify what beyond desktops qualifies as an endpoint.
Ideas
One Year In, the Evidence Act is Producing Results
Most have identified evaluation officers and chief data officers and have started developing learning agendas that identify priority areas.
Ideas
FITARA Hits Its 5-year Anniversary
An enhanced scorecard will drive better government services for citizens.
Digital Government
White House Plans to Tap SBA Official as Next Deputy Federal CIO
Maria Roat will join the Office of Management and Budget, according to multiple sources.
Cybersecurity
OPM CISO Seeking a Small Business to Help Monitor Agency Cybersecurity
The winning vendor will help the government’s HR department track incidents across 1,000 servers and more than 10,000 devices.
Modernization
Survey: Feds View Security as Biggest Hurdle to Cloud Adoption
While agencies are becoming increasingly reliant on cloud services, a survey reveals pain points in getting there.
Policy
OMB Finishes Major Tech Policy Overhauls in 2019
The Office of Management and Budget reworked several policies—some of which hadn’t been updated in a decade.
Digital Government
Trump Finalizes Pay Raise for Feds in 2020
The new pay tables are out: Federal employees will see a 2.6% increase in basic pay next year, with an average 0.5% increase in locality pay.
Digital Government
Trump Announces Picks to Replace Outgoing Leaders at NSF, CISA
The administration plans to nominate a replacement for the National Science Foundation director and appoint a new assistant director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Ideas
Legacy IT Is Not the Problem
Digital transformation requires architecting an IT organization around something more fundamental to IT organizations than technology: complexity.
Digital Government
NASA Ranks as the Best Place to Work in Government for Eighth Year
Partnership for Public Service notes a “modest drop in employee engagement” overall across government.
Ideas
How Agency CIOs Can Enable Business and Reduce Risk
Visibility is essential for CIOs to accomplish their mission and meet compliance.
Modernization
Federal CIO: It’s Time for Those Digital Transformations to Scale Up
In 2020, agencies will likely expand some of their new pilots and projects into enterprisewide solutions.
Ideas
Yes, We Still Need to Focus on Women in Tech
Adjusting the gender tilt in the tech workforce requires more than just filling vacancies.
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