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Nelson quickens NRC’s move to the cloud by building on successes Aug 03, 2018

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Dave Nelson, the chief information officer of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said it just took one success and a little bit of time to get the NRC fully on board with cloud services.

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Emerging threat to warfighters required new thinking by DoD’s JIDO Jul 27, 2018

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Leonel Garciga, the CTO of the Joint Improvised Threat Defeat Organization (JIDO), broke from the traditional federal model with open source to get capabilities out faster.

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5 years after blowing the whistle on cyber problems, Davis has no regrets Jul 20, 2018

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Jerry Davis retired from federal services after more than 20 years, including the last five as the NASA Ames CIO.

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Data integration effort delivers savings, better decision making for HRSA Jul 16, 2018

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The Health Resources and Services Administration awarded $11 billion in grants across 90 programs in fiscal 2017. And with that comes petabytes of data and the need to analyze that information. Adriane Burton, the Health Resources and Services Administration’s chief information officer, said a new modern data analytics platform holds the key for improving how HRSA manages its grants process.

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The benefit, curse of senor technology pushes the Air Force to try something different Jun 29, 2018

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Frank Konieczny, the CTO for the Office of Information Dominance and chief information officer in the Air Force, said the service is figuring out how to authenticate connected devices.

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EXIM Bank addresses nuts, bolts of IT modernization Jun 26, 2018

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The Export-Import Bank of the U.S. received an unusual report from its inspector general. Auditors praised the agency’s efforts to modernize its infrastructure and deploy new systems. Howard Spira, the chief information officer of EXIM, said on Ask the CIO with Jason Miller that he focused the agency on the nuts and bolts of operations and maintenance to create this successful approach.

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Through CoEs, USDA starts proving what's possible with IT modernization Jun 15, 2018

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The Agriculture Department is moving closer to ending the planning stage and entering the operational stage of the Trump administration’s Centers of Excellence IT modernization initiative. USDA and the General Services Administration will host a CoE phase 2 planning session on June 27 for contractors to learn about their procurement strategies. The details from phase GSA and USDA awarded four vendors contracts to support phase 1 in March. Gary Washington, the USDA chief information officer, said his agency as well as GSA, detailees and vendors helping on this transformation effort have to keep one very important fact in mind: This is not about technology.

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Before buying technology, NNSA performs a cyber checkup Jun 08, 2018

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Wayne Jones, the chief information officer at the NNSA, said he is taking a hybrid approach to modernizing systems and applications.

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Intelligence Community brings on Microsoft as key piece to second epoch of ICITE Jun 01, 2018

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John Sherman, the Intelligence Community’s chief information officer, wanted to tamp down any rumors about why the IC signed a deal to bring Microsoft’s cloud into the mix. He tells it all to Executive Editor Jason Miller on Ask the CIO.

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4 bots relieve NASA employees from doing ‘low-value’ work May 24, 2018

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Pam Wolfe, the chief of the Enterprise Services Division in the NASA Shared services office, said because of robotics process automation, her office can review grant applications more quickly.

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