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Treasury connects data to make better decisions

CIO Robyn East is leading an effort to create an enterprise data warehouse with procurement, financial and human resources information.
August 23, 2012

Tags: technology , Robyn East , Paul Sforza , Treasury , TechStat , acquisition policy , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller

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SEC working smarter to focus on innovation

Thomas Bayer, the SEC CIO, said he reduced his operations and maintenance spending by $15.5 million last year and used those savings for business and mission systems.

Tags: technology , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller , SEC , Thomas Bayer , Technology innovation , budget

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Q&A with ITS's Kevin Page

Kevin Youel Page, deputy commissioner for the Office of Integrated Technology Services, will talk about the agency's goals and initiatives.
August 7, 2012

Tags: acquisition , contracting , Kevin Page , Office of Integrated Technology Services , GSA , cloud computing , strategic sourcing , GWACs , Alliant , data collection , transactional data , Roger Waldron , Off the Shelf

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Office for Immigration Review entering next phase of IT upgrades

The Justice Department's Executive Office of Immigration Review is implementing phase four of their E-World initiative to bring e-filing capabilities to attorneys.
July 12, 2012

Tags: technology , Richard Chandler , DoJ , immigration , e-filing , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller , Office for Immigration Review , EOIR

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Datapalooza, the Data Navigator, and more

Niall Brennan, director for Policy and the Data Analytics Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will talk about how to process large volumes of data.
April 17, 2012

Tags: technology , big data , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services , Datapalooza , transparency , Brookings Institute , Congressional Budget Office , data navigator , HiMSS , John Gilroy , Niall Brennan , Federal Tech Talk

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Open government advocates seek greater access to congressional data

Sunlight Foundation Policy Counsel Daniel Schuman is leading the campaign to improve the Library of Congress website that reports congressional data.

Tags: Daniel Schuman , Sunlight Foundation , Library of Congress , Congress , open government , data scraping , Federal Drive , technology , Michael OConnell

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OMB to increase IT project oversight with improved dashboard

Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel said agency technology managers will receive reports on the accuracy of the data they put in the portal. The Office of Management and Budget will use the reports to spot possible problematic projects. Version two of the IT Dashboard also will offer more information on specific projects that fall under a bigger investment category.

Tags: technology , IT , OMB , management , Steven VanRoekel , Dominic Sale , IT Dashboard , data quality , Jason Miller

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OMB upgrades IT Dashboard with new tools, better data

The portal provides more access to individual agency projects, lets departments find duplication and improves overall data quality. OMB also has published the source code for the public to use.

Tags: technology , OMB , Steven VanRoekel , IT Dashboard , Project management , Jason Miller , Beth Reardon

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Navy struggles to find the way ahead on big data

The Navy is in the early stages of trying to figure out how to move from a net-centric view of its information systems to one that focuses on the data itself. The service is looking to the experiences of the intelligence community to improve data tagging and data sharing.

Tags: Navy , NGEN , AFCEA , Jan Tighe , information sharing , big data , intelligence community , cloud computing , Jared Serbu , network management

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Army systems giving clearer picture of force readiness

The Enterprise Management Decision Support pulls data from 18 different databases to help senior leaders understand the state of divisions, brigades or battalions. Lt. Col. Bobby Saxon said the system helped cut down the time it takes to collect this data by 90 percent.
February 16, 2012(Encore presentation April 12, 2012)

Tags: technology , Bobby Saxon , Army , Enterprise Management Decision Support , Jason Miller , Force management , Ask the CIO

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