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USCIS, Millennium Challenge Corporation putting workforces at the front of their zero trust journey Apr 11, 2023

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Shane Barney, the chief information security officer at USCIS, and Miguel Adams, the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s CISO, both say the need to educate and train the business customers on zero trust is important to their agency’s success.

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Vulcan to be the glue to connect DISA’s digital transformation tools together Mar 27, 2023

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Dave Lago, a product manager for DISA's Hosting and Compute Center, said the Vulcan tool set includes several commercial software capabilities to help DoD modernize software.

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Lessons from how Labor is getting out from under its technical debt Mar 16, 2023

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Gundeep Ahluwalia, the chief information officer for the Labor Department, said three funding sources, two-year appropriations, a working capital fund and the Technology Modernization Fund, is giving the agency the resources to move to the cloud.

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More agencies defining risk appetite, integrating into strategy, decision making Feb 20, 2023

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In the Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management Enterprise Risk Management’s (AFERM) 8th annual survey of federal officials found a strong majority say ERM programs encompass a holistic view of mission and mission support functions.

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Identity management, automation a common theme among 4 agencies move to zero trust Feb 13, 2023

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A panel of federal and industry experts describe each of their approaches to achieving a zero trust architecture to improve the security of systems and data.

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As Iyer exits, Army CIO’s office holds more influence, authority than ever Feb 06, 2023

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Raj Iyer’s last day as the Army’s chief information officer is Feb. 10, after which he plans to return to industry but continue to support the service’s transformation efforts.

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NASA’s reconstituted data analytics office breathing more life into acquisition Jan 30, 2023

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NASA is reconstituting its data analysis team to improve its decision making around acquisition.

The idea of using data to drive decisions isn’t new for NASA. But with the move to centralize much of acquisition across the space agency, data analysis became more critical.

Karla Smith Jackson, the assistant administrator for procurement and the senior procurement executive at NASA, said this data-driven analysis approach is different this time than previous attempts.

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SSA’s data pipelines under construction to feed digital transformation Jan 20, 2023

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Patrick Newbold, the deputy chief information officer, and Rob King, the chief data officer, at the Social Security Administration said technology and data modernization are driving better services to internal and external customers.

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Grants QSMO shifts latest attempt to modernize systems into next gear Jan 16, 2023

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Chad Clifford, the executive director of the Grants QSMO at the Department of Health and Human Services, said their goal is to improve the customer’s experience by giving them the tools to help drive greater efficiencies for the agency, users and recipients.

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DeRusha says new 2023 cyber metrics reflect agility needed in today’s environment Dec 27, 2022

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Chris DeRusha, the federal chief information security officer, said new FISMA metrics will ask agencies for more granular data on how they are meeting administration priorities.

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