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Doubts remain over VA's ability to end huge disability claims backlog
VA officials still insist the 630,000 disability claims waiting to be processed will be eliminated by 2015. But so far, numbers are headed in the wrong direction and House Veterans Affairs Committee members are losing patience.
Tags: VA , VBMS , disability claims backlog , Congress , House Veterans Affairs Committee , Jeff Miller , Michael Michaud , Kevin McCarthy , Jared Serbu , management , Allison Hickey
Issa's IT reform bill moves through committee, concerns still remain
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) with little debate and no amendments. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the bill's author and chairman of the committee, said the provisions to give CIOs more budget control and the IT project and program management improvements will have a big impact on how agencies spend money on technology.
Tags: Darrell Issa , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , acquisition , industry , Mike Hettinger , Software and Information Industry Association , TechAmerica , IT reform , Project management , Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act , open source , strategic sourcing , Jason Miller , exclusive
Carrying On with Continuity of Operations
More than 80 percent of the federal systems
count on private sector critical
infrastructure to work.
Should one of the telecommunications,
electricity or other providers be hacked or go
down from a natural disaster, agency mission
would be in peril.
Just take last summer's Derecho that impacted
the Washington DC area. One agency lost their
connection to the Internet for some time
because of the storm even though their
infrastructure was in the cloud.
Over the past decade or more, agencies have
applied the lessons learned from the
assortment of man-made and natural disasters
that have impacted their services to keep
their services running as smoothly as
possible.
But with the emergence of cloud computing,
virtualization, mobile computing and other
technologies, what should agencies keep in
mind to ensure the continuity of operations?
How is the idea of COOP and disaster recovery
changing?
The panel, Carrying on with Continuity of
Operations, will look at how agencies have
implemented COOP and disaster recovery over
the past decade and where they need to go
next.
Tags: Symantec , COOP , Carrying on with Continuity of Operations , Eric Hennessey , Gary Galloway , Reynold Schweickhardt , Jason Miller , Tod Henby
Change management in IT
Doug Charles, president and CEO of Capgemini Government Solutions, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how change management applies to information technology, and where IT changes are headed.
March 19. 2013
Tags: change management , cloud computing , mobile device management , Doug Charles , Capgemini Government Solutions , information technology , social media , John Gilroy , Federal Tech Talk
BIG DATA In Government "Progress & Best Practices" 2012
Listen November 6th@ 12pm
Program will discuss the following: Progress Report on BIG DATA, Strategies Being Used to Manage BIG DATA, Key Challenges or Barriers to still overcome, Does BIG DATA impact how you Address Cybersecurity, A Vision for The Future
Tags: Federal Executie Forum
Defense Cloud Computing "Progress & Best Practices" 2012
Listen December 4th@ 12pm
Program will discuss the following: Progress
Report on Defense Cloud Computing Initiatives,
Key Benefits with Cloud Computing, Key
Challenges to Overcome, Addressing Security
Concerns in a Cloud Strategy Environment,
Lessons Learned & Best Practices, and A Vision
for The Future
Tags: Federal Executie Forum , Trezza Media Group , Mike Krieger , Alfred Rivera , Frank Konieczny , Louis Tempkin , CJ Wallington , Scott Montgomery , McAfee , HP , General Dynamics Information Technology
CyberSecurity "Progress & Best Practices" Defense & Homeland 2013
Listen Tuesday January 29th @ 12pm
Program will discuss the following: Progress
Report CyberSecurity in the Federal
Government, Top CyberSecurity Priorities, Key
Challenges to Overcome in IT Security, Lessons
Learned, and A Vision
for The Future
Tags: Federal Executive Forum , Trezza Media Group , Henry Sienkiewicz , Joe Albaugh , Charles Croom , Marty Roesch , Ken Kartsen , Sourcefire , Lockheed Martin , McAfee , Jeff Eisensmith
TSA CIO Garrison-Alexander retiring
Emma Garrison-Alexander is leaving government after 29 years, including the last four at the Transportation Security Administration. The Federal Emergency Management Agency also is searching for a new CIO.
Tags: Emma Garrison-Alexander , TSA , people , Jason Miller , exclusive , FEMA , Jeanne Etzel , DHS
Cyber vulnerability in GSA's SAM portal exposes vendors' data
The agency in an email to contractors said information including social security numbers and bank account information were publicly assessable. GSA is offering credit monitoring services to those affected.
Tags: cybersecurity , acquisition , industry , GSA , SAM , Jason Miller , Amanda Fredriksen , Integrated Acquisition Environment ,
Carnegie Mellon, NSA seek high school hackers
Carnegie Mellon University and one of the government's top spy agencies want to interest high school students in a game of computer hacking.
Tags: cybersecurity , NSA , Carnegie Mellon University
