Jan 28th 2010
In first public speech, Howard Schmidt details five main focus areas, including updating the federal cybersecurity strategy. He also answers questions about how he will work with the NSC and NEC, and with the federal CIO and CTO. Schmidt says the administration has a big opportunity to improve the long-term cyber health of the government and industry.
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Jan 27th 2010
WFED's Jason Miller has details; plus a preview of this week's Federal Security Spotlight program.
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Technology,
Cybersecurity,
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Howard Schmidt,
cyber czar,
White House,
Vivek Kundra,
Aneesh Chopra,
Federal Security Spotlight,
Sean McGurk,
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Daily Debrief
Dec 11th 2009
President Obama's top information technology officials talk about the role of IT in advancing government openness, on the heels of announcement of the new Open Government Initiative.
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Health IT,
congress,
Web 2.0,
government 2.0,
Aneesh Chopra,
Vivek Kundra,
Cybersecurity,
Mark Warner,
Senate Budget Committee,
Open Government Initiative,
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In Depth
Dec 11th 2009
Internal documents obtained by Federal ews Radio details administration's plans to require use of the secure identity card, cloud computing, data center consolidation and several other initiatives. Current and former government officials say OMB clarified its stance on how to move forward with many of the former Bush administration initiatives.
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Technology,
Management,
Vivek Kundra,
OMB,
Budget,
E-government,
Lines of Business,
Cloud computing,
Cybersecurity,
Grants management,
Data center consolidation,
HSPD-12,
Teleworking,
E-Travel,
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Dec 11th 2009
Just days after the President announces his Open Government Initiative, members of the White House staff are fanning out to discuss what it will take to achieve more transparency and openness in government. Two of the President's top IT disciples traveled to Capitol Hill Thursday to talk about the role of technology in government openness with one of the Senate's top technology advocates.
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Dec 9th 2009
Kim Kobza, President and CEO of Neighborhood America, explains that it isn't just the federal government that has to be more open; state and local governments need to get in on the action, too.
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Technology,
Vivek Kundra,
Aneesh Chopra,
Peter Orszag,
White House,
Open Government Directive,
transparency,
Neighborhood America,
Kim Kobza,
Dorothy Ramienski,
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Daily Debrief
Dec 9th 2009
New directive gives departments several requirements over the next 120 days. OMB will track agency progress to meeting the memo's objectives through a dashboard. Experts optimistic about directive's impact, but express concern about resources and oversight.
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Technology,
Vivek Kundra,
Aneesh Chopra,
Peter Orszag,
Patrick Leahy,
OMB,
White House,
Patrice McDermott,
Openthegovernment.org,
Open Government Directive,
transparency,
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Federal News Radio
Dec 2nd 2009
Deputy DoD CIO Wennergren dispels rumors of modified responsibilities for next appointee. Technology executives see their responsibilities evolve to meet their agency's mission. OMB will issue memo reaffirming the role of the CIO.
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Techn,
Dave Wennergren,
Vivek Kundra,
DoD,
OMB,
CIO Council,
Role of the CIO,
Web 2.0,
social media,
Chief management officer,
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Federal News Radio
Oct 30th 2009
OMB has launched new tool to automate FISMA reporting. This data will help populate a new cybersecurity dashboard, federal CIO Vivek Kundra says. OMB also wants to collect more specific data around how much and where agencies are spending money on IT security.
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Cybersecurity,
security,
Vivek Kundra,
John Streufert,
Tom Carper,
OMB,
State,
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee,
DHS,
NIST,
CIO Council,
Metrics,
FISMA,
Dashboard,
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Federal News Radio
Oct 28th 2009
The number of data centers has almost tripled over the past 10 years across government. One estimate is that 80 percent of all these capabilities are underutilized. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra says cloud computing is part of the answer to reducing the data center infrastructure.
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Technology,
Gary Winkler,
Jeff Sorenson,
Vivek Kundra,
Greg Wilshusen,
Diane Watson,
Joseph Lieberman,
Susan Collins,
Army,
OMB,
GSA,
GAO,
DHS,
IAC/ACT,
Executive Leadership Conference,
Cloud computing,
Data center,
APCs,
Cybersecurity,
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Executive Leadership
Oct 6th 2009
Almost ten months into the Obama White House, the President has made a commitment to make more use of technology to fundamentally change the way government does business. Two of his top technology officials paused to offer some ideas of how -- and why -- they plan to leverage technology to improve government.
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Federal News Radio
Sep 30th 2009
GSA will award a contract to create a new enterprise architecture by the end of October. The agency's goal is to consolidate eight disparate systems to make it easier to access procurement data. The current systems are not interoperable and plagued with long-standing problems.
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Contracting,
Vivek Kundra,
Sen. Claire McCaskill,
Sen. Robert Bennett,
William Woods,
OMB,
OFPP,
GAO,
GSA,
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee,
FPDS,
AOCS,
PPIRS,
Excluded Parties List System,
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Federal News Radio
Jul 31st 2009
GSA putting pieces in place through acquisition process. RFQ for infrastructure-as-a-service expected soon, and more information about software-as-a-service coming too.
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Technology,
Contracting,
Vivek Kundra,
Ed O'Hare,
GSA,
OMB,
INPUT,
Cloud computing,
Networx,
Telecommunications,
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Federal News Radio
Jul 22nd 2009
CIO Council to use dashboard to analyze macro trends of why agency technology programs are in trouble. Federal CIO Kundra calls for aggressive focus on project management.
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Management,
Technology,
Vivek Kundra,
Jeff Zients,
Aneesh Chopra,
OMB,
CIO Council,
VA,
IT Dashboard,
Project management,
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Federal News Radio
Jul 1st 2009
Transparency gives additional clout to make technology projects perform. Tool replaces OMB watch lists and makes information more interactive.
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Management,
Technology,
Vivek Kundra,
Dave Wennergren,
Tom Coburn,
Susan Collins,
Joseph Lieberman,
OMB,
DoD,
CIO Council,
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee,
Ed Meagher,
Dan Mintz,
CSC,
SRA,
IT Dashboard,
Accountability,
FFATA,
transparency,
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