Digital Government
Rise of the Data Chiefs: Meet the Federal Officials Aiming to Usher in Government’s ‘Golden Age’ of Data
Nextgov sat down with five recently appointed agency chief data officers across government to discuss the mission of the agency CDO and whether there’s room in the federal organizational chart for yet another “chief.”
Digital Government
Timeline: Rise of the Chief Data Officer
Charting the evolution of the government's open data movement.
Digital Government
Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Niall Brennan, CMS
Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Niall Brennan, chief data officer of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Digital Government
Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Dan Morgan, Transportation
Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Dan Morgan, chief data officer for the Transportation Department.
Digital Government
Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Deputy CDO Lynn Overmann, Commerce
Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Lynn Overmann, deputy chief data officer at the Commerce Department.
Digital Government
Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Brandon Pustejovsky, USAID
Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Brandon Pustejovsky, chief data officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Digital Government
Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Scott Shoup, FEMA
Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Scott Shoup, chief data officer of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Digital Government
GSA Announces IT Leadership Shuffle
The agency is losing both its CIO and the executive director of its digital office.
Digital Government
Applying for Federal Jobs? Uncle Sam’s Career Site To Get a Facelift
The Obama administration wants to make the notoriously creaky federal jobs portal more user friendly.
Digital Government
New CIO Wants Fresh Pair of Eyes to Look at Federal IT Problems
The IT Solutions Challenge will consist of several working groups of "rising stars" from the IT world tasked with zeroing in on tech issues in the federal government.
Digital Government
4 Things to Know about the Federal IT Budget Proposal
Big-ticket IT procurements and system modernizations provide a road map of agencies’ spending priorities in the year ahead.
Cybersecurity
FISMA by the Numbers: The Biggest Cyber Threats at These 5 Agencies
Cybersecurity incidents targeting federal agencies are on the rise.
Cybersecurity
Senate Offices Want New System to Track Website Vulnerabilities
The Senate wants commercial, off-the-shelf software to scan, identify and help resolve vulnerabilities across 140 different Senate office websites.
Digital Government
Feds Say They Finally Have a Database of Every Cyber Job in Government
Federal cyberwarriors hail from more than 100 different job categories scattered across agencies.
Digital Government
When IRS Tech Projects Start to Slip, Congress is the Last to Know
A few key tech projects at IRS are running over budget and behind schedule, and lawmakers are being left out of the loop, GAO said.
Digital Government
Attention, CIOs: Start Planning for FITARA Now
The Office of Management and Budget is still writing guidelines to more fully flesh out federal IT reform legislation.
Cybersecurity
VA IT Budget Proposes Boost for Cyber Spending
Spending on information protection encompasses more than a single budget account and is sprinkled across the department.
Digital Government
Megan Smith Wants to ‘Debug’ Tech’s Diversity Problem
The U.S. chief technology officer said she remains hopeful about the prospects for change -- especially in Silicon Valley.
Digital Government
What Really Grinds Federal IT Managers’ Gears? Try the Hiring Process
The CIO Council has just wrapped up a survey of the IT workforce about its frustrations with the federal hiring process.
Digital Government
‘Data Science is a Team Sport': DJ Patil Spends First Day Pitching Silicon Valley on Joining Government
In its quest to get more data scientists into government, the Obama administration is likely to face stiff competition for talent from the private sector.
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