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Heroines in Technology are heros everywhere

The women named as Heroines are women business owners and leaders who devote their energy to charities of choice to better their communities.

Tags: Federal Drive , Heroines in Technology , Deborah Diaz , NASA , pay and benefits , CIO , Doctors Without Borders , March of Dimes ,

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First wave of NGIA employees move to Ft. Belvoir

Tags: NGIA , Dorobek Insider , DoD Report , Fort Belvoir

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More time needed to finalize FedRAMP

GSA, DoD, DHS still need at least another month to finalize the FedRAMP requirements. Agencies and vendors are anxiously waiting the FedRAMP process to speed up the move to cloud computing and save money. The CIO Council also is developing the top 20 cloud security considerations to help agencies mitigate risks.

Tags: technology , Dawn Leaf , GSA , DHS , CDC , NIST , DoD , cybersecurity , cloud computing , FedRAMP , infrastructure-as-a-service , Jason Miller

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Navy begins routine cybersecurity inspections

The Navy is preparing to launch a new program of inspections to gauge its commands' cybersecurity measures.

Tags: DoD , technology , cybersecurity , Navy , Ned Deets , Jonathan Greenert , Jared Serbu , Cybersecurity Update

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Navy must cut IT business systems spending by 25 percent

The Navy readies RFIs for email and data storage to figure out how to best reduce spending on non-mission critical systems. Navy CIO Terry Halvorsen is exploring whether DON's non-classified email can be hosted by a third party, and whether a public-private partnership can be developed around data centers. Navy has no plans to use the DISA email system.

Tags: DoD , Department of the Navy , Navy , Marine Corps , technology , industry , contracting , budget , DoD budget , efficiencies , data center consolidation , enterprise email , Terry Halvorsen , Robert Work , Jared Serbu

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CIOs cite struggles with agile development

Agency chief information officers say the road to more agile acquisition and development of information technology has some speed bumps, including misaligned budgetary and acquisition cycles, and industry partners who are just as accustomed to the old way of doing things as the government is.

Tags: technology , industry , management , Vivek Kundra , OMB , IT management reforms , agile development , CBP , VA , DoD , Kenneth Ritchhart , Stephen Warren , Teri Takai , Jared Serbu

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For Army, network tops modernization priorities

Susan Lawrence, the Army's newly-appointed Chief Information Officer members of the IT and communications industry that the service is focused on creating an end-to-end IT infrastructure, eliminating structures that required soldiers to train and live on one network, and deploy on another.

Tags: DoD , industry , Susan Lawrence , Mike Krieger , Army , cloud computing , enterprise email , data center consolidation , Jared Serbu , DoD Report

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Bring your own telework tools

The federal government could soon pay a $2,000 subsidy to federal employees who buy their own mobile devices.

Tags: technology , Telework Center , telework , Polycom , Suzanne Kubota , pay and benefits , Vivek Kundra , Ed Meagher , DOI ,

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Kundra pushes employee-owned mobile devices for work

Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said he wants to move toward giving feds a subsidy - of say, $2,000 - to purchase their own devices to work on.

Tags: Vivek Kundra , Richard Spires , Roger Baker , CIO , VA , DHS , technology , mobile devices , BlackBerry , iPad , iPhone , Tom Temin , Jolie Lee

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DHS to gain real-time access to DoD biometrics

The Department of Homeland Security already has real-time access to biometric data maintained in the FBI's huge database of criminal records. Within the next year, it'll be able to share similar data with the Defense Department.

Tags: DoD , technology , DHS , biometrics , U.S. Visit , Secure Communities Program , CBP , TSA , FBI , Next, LLC , Stephanie Rowe , Bob Mocny , Thomas Killion , Dan Roberts , Jared Serbu

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