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How NSA is winning the war for cyber talent Oct 19, 2018

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Kathy Hutson, NSA’s senior strategist for academic engagement, said a 20-year partnership with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County helps keep current employees growing and brings in new ones.

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HUD, USDA bolstered from first payments from Technology Modernization Fund Oct 12, 2018

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USDA and HUD are taking advantage of both the Technology Modernization Fund and the Centers of Excellence to jumpstart IT modernization efforts. David Chow, the chief information officer at HUD, said TMF and CoE are part of HUD’s financial transformation.

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Education’s body and soul approach to IT modernization Oct 05, 2018

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Jason Gray, the Education Department’s chief information officer, said IT modernization is all about making both the policy and the infrastructure more flexible, agile and customer focused.

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How NASA plans on ensuring that its data is accessible forever Oct 01, 2018

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Renee Wynn, the NASA CIO, said during the upcoming ACT-IAC ELC ImaginationNation conference she’s interested in learning about SDN and zero trust networks.

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GSA’s Thomas pushing IT modernization from his front-row seat Sep 20, 2018

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Alan Thomas, the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, said the Technology Modernization Fund and the EIS contract are helping to push agencies toward better IT services.

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DHS’ Intelligence and Analysis Office riding cloud, shared services to reach better mission results Sep 14, 2018

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Dave Bottom, the chief information officer in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis at DHS, said upgrading to Windows 10 will buoy its larger IT modernization effort.

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State’s move to hybrid cloud underpinning new IT modernization strategy Sep 06, 2018

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The State Department's approach to modernizing its technology is focused on two major shifts: The first is centralization of back-office or commodity IT. The second is all about consuming IT-as-a-service. Ken Rogers, the State Department’s deputy chief information officer for business management and planning, said State’s strategy is all about getting off of the buy, build and maintain train. Based on the two-year analysis, State CIO Karen Mummaw published the agency’s new strategy in June that lays out the implementation plan to get the value proposition from cloud services. They joined Federal News Radio's Jason Miller on Ask the CIO.

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DLA turns to AI, machine learning to bring surety to the DoD supply chain Aug 23, 2018

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The Defense Logistics Agency is five months into using its new Business Decision Analytics tool and the impact is obvious for them. The platform is giving DLA contracting officers more specific and better information to know what they are buying isn’t counterfeit or filled with computer malware. For more, Federal News Radio's Jason Miller spoke with Michael Scott, the deputy director of DLA’s logistics operations, and Kathy Cutler, the director of DLA’s Information Operations and chief information officer, on Ask the CIO.

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Bradley talks declassification; McCarthy talks IT spending Aug 17, 2018

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On this special episode of Ask the CIO, host Jason Miller talks to Mark Bradley, the director of the Information Security Oversight Office, and Shawn McCarthy, the research director for IDC Government Insights.

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GAO’s Powner’s legacy: Call it clean, don’t sugar-coat it, be constructive Aug 09, 2018

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David Powner left the Government Accountability Office in early August after spending 16 years overseeing federal technology management issues.

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