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Sylvia Burns is the FDIC chief information officer, and Keith Jones, the State Department’s CIO, highlighted individual efforts to drive innovation to their internal and external customers. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Soraya Correa, who recently retired after 40 years in government, including the last six as Homeland Security's chief procurement officer, said six years into the Procurement Innovation Lab's existence, the benefits to her former agency’s acquisition process is clear. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

The General Services Administration has almost completed its first set of initiatives under the Federal Marketplace Strategy. GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service created a foundation over the last few years that focused on improving the customer and employee experiences. Now FAS is ready to build on that foundation with four new initiatives that will expand the use of technology, further the buying...

Patrick Gould, cyber portfolio deputy director at Defense Innovation Unit, said on behalf of cyber mission teams his organization tested out two tools that advanced the use of deception approaches to stop hackers. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Chris DeRusha, the federal chief information security officer, said the annual Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) report to Congress further highlights why the administration is focusing on some key areas to improve. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

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 a...

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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

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...

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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-n...

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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy an...

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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California...

Brian Goodger, the program manager for CIO-SP4 and acting director of NITAAC, said the final solicitation for the health IT services governmentwide acquisition contract should be out mid-to-late March. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Matthew Shallbetter, the director of security design and innovation at the Department of Health and Human Services, has an unusual job in government. He actually goes out and meets with cybersecurity vendors. Shallbetter is on the lookout for the next great cybersecurity technology or tool. He often is attracted to those that have grabbed the attention of venture capital groups. Shallbetter said t...

The Federal Acquisition Service at the General Services Administration brought in record revenue last year for IT products and services. This week we hear from some key players in the community about why they were successful and more on what's to come. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .