Emerging Tech
Pentagon Debunks DOD-VA Interoperability Myth
“There is not a big interoperability problem with the VA and DOD today,” according to Frank Kendall, DOD undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics.
Emerging Tech
$11 Billion Next-Gen Weather Satellite Launch Delayed
“Schedule risks” found by NOAA, NASA and main contractor Lockheed Martin have slipped the launch again to sometime in fall, likely October.
Emerging Tech
QTS Sets Eyes on Federal Market with Carpathia Acquisition
The Kansas-based company, which already services many federal customers through 12 nationwide data centers, spent $326 million acquiring the cloud services provider.
Digital Government
No Protests After $9 Billion Pentagon Contract
Sources with knowledge of the bids tell Nextgov that Leidos’ bid was about $1 billion cheaper than the bids of its competitors over the contract’s 10-year base.
Digital Government
Where Customer Experience is Winning (and Losing) in Government
Without the spotlight of a presidential administration or a top-down leadership push, most federal agencies have long fought a losing battle in meaningful customer experience improvements.
Digital Government
VA’s Deputy CIO Takes New Job
Steph Warren oversaw VA’s $4 billion IT shop and its several thousand employees over the past two years, owning the agency’s cybersecurity strategy and answering repeatedly to Congress on its perceived IT vulnerabilities and the successful cyberintrusions of nation state-sponsored attackers.
Emerging Tech
The Road to Improving Customer Experience for Veterans
Tom Allin is realistic about the challenge that lies in front of him.
Digital Government
Intelligence Community Research Agency Gets New Director
Jason Matheny had previously been in charge of IARPA’s “Anticipating Surprise” office, overseeing efforts to develop new capabilities in predicting and forecasting events related to national security.
Digital Government
Obama Says Customer Experience is a Big Deal. Is it?
In recent years, the White House has prioritized customer experience as a pillar for government success.
Digital Government
UPDATED: Leidos Wins Massive Pentagon Health Care Records Contract
The Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization contract’s base value is $4.3 billion over 10 years, with an expected 18-year lifecycle value of $9 billion.
Emerging Tech
10 Years After Katrina, NOAA Preps for Launch of Powerful New Weather Satellites
The first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series will produce “30 times the data at five times the rate and twice the resolution” of the current crop of geostationary satellites.
Emerging Tech
Obama Talks Federal IT on ‘Daily Show”
The commander in chief discussed the wave of Silicon Valley tech talent invading government, challenges in IT procurement and how better IT can lead to better federal customer service.
Emerging Tech
What Happens if There’s a Massive Data Breach in the Cloud?
Federal cloud security standards have been hugely successful thus far in ensuring cloud service providers that serve government customers aren’t bringing knives to gun fights.
Digital Government
IC Hones in on New CIO
Raymond Cook formerly led multiagency IT infrastructure, data sharing and compliance within the CIA.
Emerging Tech
In Tech Innovation, Don’t Forget about Governance
Maria Roat, chief technology officer at the Transportation Department, called governance one of the biggest challenges she’s faced since she began last year.
Modernization
Need a Use Case for Cloud? Look to FCC
By the end of 2017, the agency's IT will be nearly 100 percent cloud based if all goes according to plan.
Emerging Tech
Pentagon’s $11 Billion Health Records Deal to be Awarded by Month's End
The 10-year contract is one of the largest in recent memory for DOD.
Emerging Tech
FCC Wants to Operate 100 Percent in the Cloud by the End of 2017
FCC is going all-in on cloud computing and is currently in the middle of a “lift-and-shift."
Emerging Tech