Ideas
How Digital Transformations Are Changing the Face of Operations
It’s time to rethink how IT operations are managed.
Modernization
Bipartisan Bill Aims to Codify and Reform FedRAMP
The bill would also encourage agencies to reuse FedRAMP authorized cloud products.
Artificial Intelligence
Agencies Need Tech-Savvy Feds to Address AI Challenges
Algorithmic bias, security and explainability are among the top issues the government must address as it hands over more responsibility to AI, according to a recent report.
Modernization
A closer look at accelerating digital process automation
While there is no silver bullet for transforming and digitizing operations in federal agencies, integrated approaches that bring people, processes and technologies together drive the most sustainable success.
Modernization
VA Doesn’t Really Know What It Costs To Run VistA
Lowball estimates for operating the current electronic health records system through the transition to Cerner cast doubt that overall projections are accurate.
Modernization
Contracting, cloud essential to modernizing House IT
Federal legislative networks can take a page from state playbooks and harness innovative cloud and procurement techniques for their modernization efforts.
Modernization
FedRAMP Issues a New Challenge: Help Us Improve
“No idea is too small!” according to the challenge issued Wednesday.
Modernization
How Agriculture Plans to Boost Its IT Workforce
The department plans to reskill employees for a data-heavy future and create a CIO development program.
Modernization
Pentagon’s DEOS Award Could Be Coming Sooner Than Expected
An award for the Pentagon’s multibillion Defense Enterprise Office Solutions contract could come by August.
Digital Government
Small Agencies Need Shared Services Providers to Step Up DATA Act Support
Large departments are assisting smaller agencies in meeting their DATA Act requirements through shared services providers. But that help isn’t always so helpful.
Modernization
USDA set to release EIS task order
The Agriculture Department is close to issuing its solicitation for modernized telecommunications infrastructure.
Digital Government
OPM Cuts Security Clearance Backlog in Half, But Processing Delays Spell Trouble for Pentagon
The National Background Investigations Bureau is barreling through the backlog of clearance applications as the Defense Department prepares to take over the function in October.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers Propose Bills to Secure Connected Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The legislation would set “reasonable” security measures for the numerous IT systems that power our increasingly connected vehicles.
Modernization
For the military, is 5G all it's hyped to be?
The potential of 5G telecommunications technology has garnered new attention and focus from the Defense Department, but it may not be that big of a deal for military tech.
Modernization
House Republicans to Trump: Stay Out of Pentagon Cloud Acquisition
Four members of the House Armed Services Committee asked Trump to let the Pentagon award its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract without delay.
Digital Government
OIG: Beware of Fraud Ring Scamming Equipment by Posing as Federal Buyers
Their preferred way to swindle laptops, hard drives and smartphones is by fax.
Modernization
Trump ‘Looking Into’ Pentagon’s JEDI Contract
The president said Oracle, IBM and Microsoft have been complaining about JEDI.
Modernization
Agencies Have a New Tool for Researching Electronic Records Management Services
The National Archives and Records Administration and General Services Administration collaborated on the market research tool.
Modernization