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  • Emerging Technologies Point To New Potential For Innovation

    Emerging Technologies Point To New Potential For Innovation
    The convergence of several rapidly evolving technologies is creating new potential for innovation at federal agencies, a group of senior government officials said at a technology and innovation forum ...
    2012-04-26T13:33:00Z by Wyatt Kash
  • DHS Agents Will Trade Radios For Smart Phones

    DHS Agents Will Trade Radios For Smart Phones
    The Homeland Security Department plans to migrating to mobile devices and advance information sharing as part of updates to law enforcement technology, Federal Computer Week has reported. CIO ...
    2012-04-19T14:20:00Z by AOL Staff
  • Spires Foresees Back Office Computing As A Service Within Next 5 Years

    Spires Foresees Back Office Computing As A Service Within Next 5 Years
    One of the nation's top government chief information officers predicted within the next five years, federal agencies will be able to begin procuring enterprise level back office information systems as ...
    2012-04-16T18:32:00Z by Wyatt Kash
  • Federal CIOs: How To Gear Up For FedRAMP

    Federal CIOs: How To Gear Up For FedRAMP
    Federal CIOs say agencies and government contractors must become completely familiar with FedRAMP security controls and how they relate to each agency prior to the cloud computing service program's ...
    2012-04-13T13:30:00Z by Elaine S. Povich
  • DHS Building Common View For Multiple Common Operating Pictures

    DHS Building Common View For Multiple Common Operating Pictures
    Common Operating Picture (COP) systems are critical for supporting the situational awareness needs of the homeland security mission. Through our portfolio review process at the Department of ...
    2012-02-23T10:02:00Z by Richard Spires
  • How To Reverse Duplicative IT Spending In Large Organizations

    How To Reverse Duplicative IT Spending In Large Organizations
    As the Government Accountability Office detailed in their public report this month on potentially duplicative investments at the Departments of Defense and Energy, duplicative IT systems exist ...
    2012-02-21T15:10:00Z by Richard Spires
  • OMB Issues FedRAMP Directive; Key Step Toward Common Cloud Security Framework

    OMB Issues FedRAMP Directive; Key Step Toward Common Cloud Security Framework
    Calling it a "monumental first step in addressing security in cloud computing," Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel announced the official launch of the long-awaited Federal Risk Authorization Management ...
    2011-12-08T15:27:00Z by Jeff Erlichman
  • Government Contracting Landscape Shifts As Task Orders Rise

    Government Contracting Landscape Shifts As Task Orders Rise
    Government contractors need to prepare not only for a more austere future for government spending, but also adapt to a shifting landscape that is favoring task orders over traditional acquisition ...
    2011-11-03T17:12:00Z by Wyatt Kash
  • DHS To Introduce Bundled 'Workplace As a Service'

    DHS To Introduce Bundled 'Workplace As a Service'
    The Homeland Defense Department will begin testing a new way of provisioning desktop and mobile computing services to employees, using DHS's private cloud computing services, DHS Chief Information ...
    2011-10-26T09:36:00Z by Wyatt Kash
  • Why Integrated Program Teams Are Critical To Federal Technology Projects

    Why Integrated Program Teams Are Critical To Federal Technology Projects
    This article, the fourth in a series, originally appeared on CIO.gov, the website of the U.S. chief information officer and the Federal CIO Council. Richard Spires is CIO of the Department of Homeland ...
    2011-10-17T14:08:00Z by Richard Spires
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