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Federal CIO Martorana expects first set of proposals for $1B TMF to be ‘high impact’ May 28, 2021

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On this week's Ask the CIO, Federal Chief Information Officer Clare Martorana discusses the Office of Management and Budget working on the new 21st Century IDEA Act guidance and a new IT modernization strategy.

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Cyber dashboards exemplifies CDM’s evolution under Cox May 24, 2021

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Kevin Cox, the outgoing program manager of the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program at CISA, said CISA has implemented the cyber dashboard at 13 CFO Act agencies and plans to provide it to all agencies later this year.

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Air Force adding more government muscle to its Cloud One platform May 14, 2021

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The Air Force’s software development platform Cloud One is too vendor heavy - Cloud One has only 20 federal and military employees out of a staff of 275. But it’s not just about numbers, it’s ensuring the employees have the right skillsets to manage a DevSecOps environment as well as work in a healthy environment. Nicolas Chaillan, the Air Force’s chief software officer, and John Weiler, founder and chairman of the IT Acquisition Advisory Council, discussed it with Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller, on this week's Ask the CIO.

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A threat-based methodology is FedRAMP’s next step toward simplicity with rigor May 06, 2021

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The acting director of the Federal Risk Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), Brian Conrad, discusses how their program management office is taking steps to make the process easier in 2021 and beyond.

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SOCOM creating common core capabilities in the cloud to transform Apr 29, 2021

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Lisa Costa, the chief information officer of the Special Operations Command in the Defense Department, said her office is offering a DevSecOps-as-a-service approach to make it easier to push capabilities out securely.

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Federal Mobility Working Group’s timely framework for 5G testing, security Apr 23, 2021

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Federal News Network Executive Editor spoke to Alan Hill, deputy assistant commissioner for Category Management in the Office of the IT category in the General Services Administration's Federal Acquisition Service - about the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions program. Miller also spoke with Serena Reynolds, the 5G initiative lead at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, about the Federal Mobility Working Group. The group released a framework to standardize the testing of 5G devices set a security baseline and provide uses cases. Hear both conversations on this week's Ask the CIO.

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New research explains why some agencies are more agreeable to open source software Apr 15, 2021

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Joe Castle, a recent PhD graduate from Virginia Tech, who studied federal technology policy and open source software, and is a federal employee, said culture, public engagement, structural factors and organizational location are all drivers for why an agency would share open source code.

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DIA preparing to move to the Intelligence Community’s mega cloud contract Apr 09, 2021

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On this week's Ask the CIO, Jack Gumtow, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s chief information officer, discusses how his office is leading three levels of effort to modernize the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System (JWICS) and more.

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Energy and USDA are reducing cyber friction to deliver capabilities faster Apr 02, 2021

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On this week's Ask the CIO, several agencies are trying to streamline and reduce the burden of cybersecurity processes in an effort to get capabilities to the mission areas faster. You hear from the Energy Department's Emery Csulak, the Patent and Trademark Office's Jamie Holcomb, Agriculture's Venice Goodwine, and the Census Bureau's Beau Houser.

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Garcia leaves Army having ensured a solid cloud, data, cyber foundation Mar 18, 2021

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On this week's Ask the CIO, Jason Miller speaks with Greg Garcia, who recently left government after 38 years. He spent his last two-plus years as the deputy chief information officer of the Army, and is now CIO at Inserso. Garcia discussed his time in government, all the changes in technology he has seen, his accomplishments and more.

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