Modernization
VA Signs $10 Billion Health Records Contract With Cerner
VA will formally pursue the same health records platform as the Pentagon.
Modernization
VA signs $10B deal with Cerner
Acting VA Secretary Robert Wilkie signed the deal naming Cerner as the sole-source software provider on the agency's health record modernization effort.
Modernization
Army mulls pause in JRSS migration
Latency and other performance quality issues with applications in the joint regional security stacks have caused DISA and the Army to rework the migration timeline.
Policy
GSA to Host Another E-Commerce Portal Industry Day
The agency will solicit information from vendors interested in hosting the platform and another for selling on it.
Modernization
Microsoft Scores Big Cloud Deal with Intel Community
The announcement could improve the company’s chances for the Defense Department’s JEDI competition.
Modernization
Better Government Websites Build Trust with Citizens, Silicon Valley Lawmaker Says
Rep. Ro Khanna's customer-experience focused bill would require agencies to go all digital by 2020.
Modernization
GSA moves grant site
The move is the latest step in the long-planned modernization of the System of Award Management.
Modernization
How Younger Workers Update Agency Tech and Vice Versa
It’s not millennial entitlement, said a top CIA technologist.
Modernization
Trump Strengthens Agency CIO Authority with Executive Order
The order puts presidential weight behind past legislation giving government CIOs more authority over hiring and budget.
Podcasts
Critical Update: Federal CIO Suzette Kent on Leading Governmentwide Transformation
She joins the podcast to talk about the whole-of-government IT modernization effort and what success will look like.
Cybersecurity
Agency That Vets Pentagon Contractors’ Security Isn’t Keeping Up With the Threat, Audit Finds
The Defense Security Service plans to shift to a risk-based approach, but needs to reach out to stakeholders, GAO says.
Digital Government
Pentagon's EHR Setbacks ‘Don't Bode Well’ for Potential Veterans Affairs Rollout
The Veterans Affairs Department will be looking to avoid mistakes made thus far by the Pentagon.
Emerging Tech
Pentagon Wants Cloud Secure Enough to Hold Nuke Secrets
The Pentagon’s JEDI cloud will be designed to store the government’s most sensitive classified information, including nuclear secrets.
Modernization
Network neglect is complicating agencies' cloud ambitions
Modernizing and moving to the cloud only works if agencies have the connectivity to take full advantage.
Cybersecurity
Georgia’s National Guard Unit Wants Some Help Prepping for a Big Cyber Test
The Georgia Army National Guard has a cyber readiness inspection coming up and wants a contractor to spend the summer helping it get ready.
Modernization
Commerce will revisit ZTE sanctions at Trump's request
The U.S. government will revisit harsh sanctions against Chinese telecom firm ZTE, despite years of complaints by U.S. officials that the communications giant violates trade laws and may facilitate Chinese espionage.
Modernization
JEDI report to Congress calls out Pentagon's fractured cloud strategy
The report criticizes the proliferation of more than 500 cloud acquisition and migration efforts as being "reminiscent of DOD's current legacy information technology environment, which is not optimized for the 21st century."
Modernization
Initial Tests Find Defense Department’s MHS Genesis ‘Not Operationally Suitable’
The test director recommends delaying further fieldings.
Modernization
Pentagon Orders Fourth Estate Agencies to Move to MilCloud 2.0
A memo from the Pentagon’s chief information officer issues a timeline for some agencies to migrate to the cloud.
Modernization