Dawn Leaf, the Labor Department's deputy chief information officer, joins Federal News Radio for a free online chat. Leaf will discuss Labor's priorities around IT modernization, data center consolidation and cybersecurity. Leaf will take part in the chat immediately after her appearance on Federal News Radio's Ask the CIO radio program. Leaf has been deputy CIO at the Labor Department since November 2012. Before coming to Labor, Leaf worked a...

Every department in the agency is a service provider whether that be human capital, finance, or acquisition. Yet, very few have matured the service model to the level of the IT department. While service relationships with the IT organization are well defined and automated, they are often inefficient, unstructured, or non-existent in other service domains.

Welcome to the Government Technology series, sponsored by Avnet Government Solutions and NetApp. This panel series discusses a wide range of technology topics and trends effecting federal agencies today. Visit our different discussions below and continue to check back as we add new discussions.

VanRoekel will take part in the chat after his appearance on Federal News Radio's Ask the CIO radio show at 10:30 a.m. Listen on 1500 AM in the Washington D.C. area and online everywhere. In addition to taking questions from chat participants, VanRoekel will discuss the White House's priorities to improve federal technology. VanRoekel will highlight the latest initiatives under the Smarter IT Delivery Agenda and PortfolioStat, as well as progr...

Government Mobility: Bridging the Gap between Desktops and Devices According to Pew Research Center, 91 percent of American adults own cell phones and 56 percent own smartphones. These users are ready to access government data anywhere and anytime. How are agencies using virtualized desktop integration to deploy secure mobility? Federal, state and local government professionals are adopting mobile devices to streamline internal processes, impr...

Government Cloud Brokerage: Who, What, When, Where, Why? Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio 1500 AM, this complimentary one-hour video training webinar will explore the Administration’s establishment of the Cloud First policy and how agencies are taking full advantage of cloud computing in order to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. As agencies seek to combine...

Government Cloud Brokerage: Who, What, When, Where, Why? Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio 1500 AM, this complimentary one-hour video training webinar will explore the Administration’s establishment of the Cloud First policy and how agencies are taking full advantage of cloud computing in order to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. As agencies seek to combine d...

Eliminating the Pitfalls: Steps to Virtualization in Government Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio 1500 AM, this complimentary one-hour video training webinar will explore how agencies are tackling the pitfalls inherent in virtualization to fulfill Administration initiatives like cloud adoption, data center consolidation, .greening of I.T., and telework. Virtualization is at the heart of these programs, and government...

The Intersection of Customer Service and Security in the Cloud For the past two years, agencies have been making the jump to the cloud. Many first made the jump to the cloud for back-office systems, such as email or Web hosting. But more recently, agencies are seeing value in putting mission critical IT systems in the cloud. At the same time, federal chief information officers still are coming to terms with how cloud providers secure their pub...

The Cyber Threat Landscape: Mitigating Threats Inside and Outside of your Agency Did you know? The estimated annual cost of global cyber crime is $100 billion. There are over 1.5 million victims per day. 59% of ex-employees admitted to stealing proprietary data when leaving their previous job. US Navy sees 110,000 cyber attacks every hour - more than 30 every single second. Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio 1500 AM, this ed...