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Time to update the federal CIO law?
Sen. Collins asked GAO to study the current roles and responsibilities of these senior technology managers. This would be the third such study from GAO since 1996, but first since 2005. VA's CIO Roger Baker reiterates his call to give CIOs oversight and authority of their IT budget.
Tags: technology , management , Susan Collins , Vivek Kundra , Valerie Melvin , OMB , VA , DHS , Interior , GAO , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs , technology management , CIO's role , IT reform , 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 , Richard Spires , 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 , Richard Spires , GSA , USDA , VA , DHS , Education , OMB , cyberstats , collaboration , agile development , IT budget , program oversight , AFCEA , Meg Beasley
CIO: VA must centralize IT management
VA CIO Roger Baker says Government IT systems are at increased risk to inside and outside threats because many agencies don't have a centralized budget or operational authority over their IT systems.
Tags: Cybersecurity Update , technology , IT , Government Computer News , Dorobek Insider
VA CIO: centralize to increase cybersecurity
Government IT systems are at increased risk to inside and outside threats because departments lack centralized budget and operational authority over their IT systems, says Roger Baker.
Tags: Federal Drive , Cybersecurity Update , VA , cybersecurity ,
Agencies figuring out how to take network vitals
OMB mandated departments implement continuous monitoring of their cyber networks by 2012. Part of meeting that goal is understanding what hardware and software currently reside on the computing backbone.
Tags: technology , contracting , Bobbie Stempfley , Mike Krieger , Donna Dodson , Army , VA , DHS , State , NIST , GSA , cybersecurity , continuous monitoring , Cyberscope , SmartBUY , Jason Miller
VA automation speeds up GI Bill claims
The Department of Veterans Affairs said Monday that a new automated system has cut the backlog of education benefit claims under the new Post-9/11 GI bill and sped up the process of delivering payments to students. VA is using an agile technology development approach to make changes easier and faster.
Tags: technology , management , VA , Veterans Benefits Administration , Michael Walcoff , GI Bill , agile IT , Jared Serbu
'Boring' is good news for VA's cyber reports
The agency's monthly security report to Congress continues to show a decreasing severity of data breaches.
Tags: technology , best practice , Veterans Affairs , cybersecurity , privacy , Meg Beasley
VA struggles to balance cloud apps, security
Assistant secretary Baker said he can't let doctors store veterans' data on unsecured systems in the cloud. But Baker said he wants to figure out how to solve this problem because the ability to access data anywhere, anytime is necessary. VA shutdown facilities usage of common commercial cloud applications.
Tags: technology , VA , Google , Yahoo! , cybersecurity , cloud computing , privacy , budget freeze , information sharing , Jason Miller
VA battles unsecured systems in cloud
Tags: VA , Jason Miller , technology , IT , Cybersecurity Update
