Agile development

Army turning lessons learned from 11 software pathway pilots into new policies

Gabe Camarillo, the undersecretary of the Army, said to create a culture of continuous improvement, the Army needs to institutionalize how it buys, develops…

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Pentagon wants to use its biggest IT program to test ‘colorless’ software appropriation

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(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2013 file photo, the Social Security Administration's main campus is seen in Woodlawn, Md. Medicare’s financial problems have gotten worse, and Social Security’s can’t be ignored forever. The government’s annual assessment is a sobering checkup on programs vital to the middle class. The report from program trustees says Medicare will become insolvent in 2026, three years earlier than previously forecast. The report says Social Security will become insolvent in 2034, no change from the projection last year.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

SSA’s disability case app modernization serving as building block to future transformation

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Montgomery County Maryland

HHS, CMS following the two ‘Cs’ of IT modernization: Customers and cost cutting

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For the government, coding comes back in house

More civilian and military feds are writing code, reversing a long outsourcing trend.

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Bill James, Drew Myklegard, Department of Veterans Affairs

VA adopts DevOps, agile methodology to improve cybersecurity

VA executives joined CyberChat to talk more about DevOps and agile methodology, and what it will mean for the agency’s cybersecurity practices in the future.

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Karl Mathias is the chief information officer of the U.S. Marshals Service. (Photo courtesy AFCEA)

Broken processes spurred the Marshals Service’s IT modernization effort

Karl Mathias, the chief information officer of the U.S. Marshals Service, said he hired a new chief technology officer to help develop a 5-to-10 year technology modernization roadmap.

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