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Agencies taking different paths to transformation
NRC issued a solicitation for a variety of IT services that serves as a lynchpin to changing how it meets its mission. HHS sees open government and health care reform as the spark, while DHS continues to move toward the OneDHS concept.
Tags: technology , contracting , Darren Ash , Michael Carleton , DHS , NRC , HHS , AFCEA , IT services , open government , data center consolidation , cloud computing , health care reform
DHS CIO taking on IT governance
Richard Spires wants to set up a program management center of excellence and provide tools and best practices around requirements development. DHS also is making progress with data center and network consolidations. Next up for the agency is merging its network and security operations centers.
Tags: technology , Margie Graves , DHS , IAC , cybersecurity , Networx , OneNet , program management , Requirements management , data center consolidation , enterprise architecture
DHS to take public websites to the cloud
Agency to issue first RFQ under infrastructure-as-a-service governmentwide contract issued by GSA. FEMA and CIS are among the first agency components to move their public-facing sites to the cloud.
Tags: technology , contracting , DHS , GSA , infrastructure-as-a-service , cloud computing , Management of Change , FedRAMP , cybersecurity , Jason Miller , MOC
DHS to take public websites to the cloud
Agency to issue first RFQ under infrastructure-as-a-service governmentwide contract issued by GSA. FEMA and CIS are among the first agency components to move their public-facing sites to the cloud.
Tags: technology , contracting , DHS , GSA , infrastructure-as-a-service , cloud computing , Management of Change , FedRAMP , cybersecurity , Jason Miller
GAO sustains protests of DHS $450M award to CACI
The Government Accountability Office sustained protests from two losing bidders under the Transformation and System Consolidation (TASC) program, say government and industry sources.
Tags: technology , contracting , industry , DHS , OMB , GAO , CACI , GCE , Savantage , financial management , TASC , bid protest , Jason Miller
CIO Council to build a community for all
New vice chairman of the CIO Council Richard Spires said he wants small and large agencies to learn from each other when it comes to implementing IT reforms. Small agencies have a different type of challenge than larger ones in implementing OMB's 25-point plan.
Tags: technology , Brett Bobley , Sanjay Sardar , DHS , NEH , FERC , OMB , CIO Council , IT reforms , Jason Miller
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: AFCEA , Vivek Kundra , Roger Baker , CIO , VA , DHS , technology , mobile devices , BlackBerry , iPad , iPhone , Tom Temin , Jolie Lee
OMB turns up oversight heat with cyberstat
The administration's IT agenda for fiscal 2012 will include new tools to combat cyber threats as well as major overhauls to how agencies manage their systems. Agency CIOs say agility will be important moving forward.
Tags: technology , management , contracting , cybersecurity , Vivek Kundra , Roger Baker , GSA , USDA , VA , DHS , Education , OMB , cyberstats , collaboration , agile development , IT budget , program oversight , AFCEA , Meg Beasley
Spires spreads DHS's data center experience to rest of government
DHS CIO Richard Spires tells host Jason Miller about his agency's data center consolidation efforts and where the government is headed next.
December 2, 2010
Tags: DHS , data center consolidation , technology , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller , CIO Council
Spires: DHS IT security hiring will increase
DHS CIO Richard Spires doesn't have anything against contractors, but he wants more feds and fewer contractors in his IT shop.
Tags: In Depth , Francis Rose , DHS , ELC , cybersecurity
