Over the past year, the Biden-Harris Administration has increased the focus on improving federal services through the President’s Management Agenda which presented a roadmap for ensuring an equitable, effective, and accountable Federal Government that delivers results for all. The three priorities were: Strengthening and empowering the Federal workforce; Delivering excellent, equitable, and secure Federal services and customer experience...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is one of the leading federal agencies in implementing in Cloud, UI/UX, SecDevOps and Cybersecurity capabilities. In 2021, President Biden signed Executive Orders (EO), some of them have a major impact on most components of DHS. First Executive Order is “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity”. It is a detailed overview of the Federal government’s plan to better secure America ...

A Fireside Chat with David Shive , Chief Information Officer, General Services Administration

In October 2020, DOJ announced a policy that permits state and local officers on DOJ Task Forces to wear and activate BWCs when the use of force is possible - while serving arrest warrants, executing other planned arrest operations, and during the execution of search warrants. On June 7 2021, based on recommendations from the Department's law enforcement components, the Attorney General directed the Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, To...

The role of Chief Information Security Officer is important making security is front and center in protecting organizations in a post SolarWinds and Log4j world. As the need to share information between different agencies with both connected and disconnected applications increases, agencies need to think beyond DevSecOps and Zero Trust. Existing approaches to building software and the use of automation need to be reevaluated. The Department of...

Cloud Services: US Marshals Service (USMS) delivery of Law Enforcement Mission The journey from concept to plan to operational services is challenging in any environment, introducing the challenges of security and deputy safety adds to the complexity. Add the demands of various physical environments and 24x7 availability and you have complexity square. Mr. Bruner who has led that journey for the USMS will share with us their experience, challe...

New technologies like Intelligent Automation, Quantum, and Edge Computing are already inspiring digital transformations and new work models, introducing new opportunities, improving customer experience, and providing a competitive edge for both government and industry. Innovation and technology redefined our pandemic work environment with agility and adaptability to better meet and anticipate customer expectations. Technology-enabled innovatio...

Join Deputy Federal CIO Maria Roat, OPM CIO Guy Cavallo, and Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security CIO G. Nagesh Rao on January 11 at 12pm ET for a panel discussion moderated by Melvin Brown II, OPM’s Deputy CIO. Our discussion will center on “Putting the MOD back into IT Modernization” as well as reflected learnings and the next evolution of the President’s Management Agenda and Executive Orders around: Elev...

International travel with government funded equipment (GFE) mobile devices is expected to pick up in early 2022 as we recover from COVID-19 and travel restrictions open up. As domestic and international travel picks up, GFE mobile devices (e.g., smartphones and tablets) will facilitate government employee work productivity during foreign travel, including remote connections to office enterprise networks and databases. However, their portabilit...

The U.S. Cyber Challenge serves as a premier program to identify, attract, recruit, train, and place the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. Top performers from different colleges and universities are offered award winning training from top instructors on new concepts and approaches. During the cyber camps in the summer, those who qualify participate in discussions with leaders in the cyber field and teams are formed where they com...