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Before she leaves, Wynn setting NASA up for a reorganized, consolidated IT future Mar 27, 2020

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Renee Wynn, the NASA chief information officer, is retiring after about 30 years in government and is leaving the space agency on track to fix long-standing IT governance challenges.

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HHS, CMS following the two 'Cs' of IT modernization: Customers and cost cutting Mar 16, 2020

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When the Department of Health and Human Services transforms its back office and mission technologies two themes emerge. The first is more typical of an IT modernization effort — consolidation and reduction of systems and contracts. The second theme is less concrete with a focus on both internal and external customers. Rajiv Uppal, the chief information officer at the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, said his IT modernization strategy leans toward the second theme. For Jose Arrieta, who became the CIO at HHS in May, the customer, too, is critical but in the short term IT modernization was more about cutting costs. Hear more on this week's Ask the CIO with Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller.

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Cloud, data center consolidation part of Klimavicz’s legacy at Justice Mar 06, 2020

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Joe Klimavicz, who retired after six years as the Justice Department CIO, said during his tenure the agency has significant strides in modernizing technology and providing improved services.

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NGA eager to take advantage of the IT revolution, evolution Feb 27, 2020

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With foundation set, Education moves into phase 2 of IT modernization journey Feb 21, 2020

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Jason Gray, the Education Department’s chief information officer, said fixing long-standing problems like laptops that took 20-to-40 minutes to boot up and log in and printer sprawl helped lay the groundwork for the next set of initiatives.

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SBA, VA driving the customer to center of IT projects Feb 14, 2020

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Nagesh Rao, the director of business technology solutions at the SBA, and Jim Trinka, the chief talent management officer in the Office of Information and Technology, say by focusing on customer experience, the applications, systems and people are improving how they meet their mission goals.

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State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls pushed the ‘easy’ button for better identity management Feb 07, 2020

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Labor’s IT modernization story started with commodity, ends with mission Feb 03, 2020

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The Labor Department is showing the true power of the Technology Modernization Fund. With the fund’s goal being to help agencies accelerate existing technology projects, Labor received $3.5 million to help move off paper-based labor certifications to electronic processes. Gundeep Ahluwalia, the Labor Department’s chief information officer, said TMF funding is just one funding sources for the agency’s bigger IT modernization effort. Hear more on this week's Ask the CIO with host Jason Miller.

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The big data challenge getting smaller for Army, Air Force as CDOs mature Jan 24, 2020

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In naming a chief data officer, the Army and the Air Force took different approaches with an eye toward the same goal. The Army dual-hatted its deputy chief information officer with CDO responsibilities. The Air Force named a specific individual to oversee and manage its data. But no matter the path the military services, or really any agency, takes, it’s all about extracting more value out of the data they have and taking advantage of the information in different ways. For this week's Ask the CIO, host Jason Miller spoke to Greg Garcia, the deputy CIO and chief data officer for the Army, and Eileen Vidreen, current Air Force CDO, at the AFCEA NOVA Small Business Enterprise IT Day.

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VA’s CFO, CIO collaboration opens the aperture of the value of $4B in IT spending Jan 16, 2020

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Ryan Woodward, the Director of the Franchise Budget Office for Infrastructure Operations in the Office of Information and Technology at VA, said the agency has spent the last few years learning how to apply Technology Business Management (TBM) standards and now are starting to see the results of that effort.

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