Allison Ling

The Department of Veterans Affairs is leveraging its increasingly sophisticated data analytics capacities to prevent suicide among veterans and provide them the critical support and counseling they need during times of crisis.

The Food and Drug Administration today released its Data Modernization Action Plan (DMAP), emphasizing scalability of data modernization through a three-pronged actionable framework around data use cases, practices and talent.

Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package includes $10 billion for IT modernization and cybersecurity needs at federal agencies.

Top cyber officials are calling on federal agencies to pay particular attention this year to TIC 3.0, the new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) standards and supply chain security to significantly reduce cyber risk.

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The newest federal IT trend is all about IPA — intelligent process automation, that is. IPA is a set of automation technologies federal agencies can adopt to revitalize IT modernization efforts.

Federal health data officials called to view health information interoperability as a journey to be developed with end users and iterated over time rather than a major destination to reach all at once during last week’s Academy Health Datapalooza virtual conference.

As federal agencies prepare their infrastructure for anticipated 5G capabilities, these modernization efforts elicit the need for enhanced security. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is uniquely positioned to address these needs.

Programs that uplift diversity in the professional scientific community like those at the National Institutes of Health are essential for the advancement of medical research, Duke University Professor Dr. Kafui Dzirasa said during a Research America webinar last week. 

The CIO-SP4 contract vehicle request for proposal release is set for mid-March after the program office overseeing it incorporated more changes into the proposal and review process, NITAAC Acting Director Brian Goodger said in an interview with GovernmentCIO Media & Research.

Hardware security and trust must involve integration of hardware and software protection strategies, as well as resilient build practices, federal IT experts said during a Silicon Flatiron event last week.

Despite potential for pandemic-induced disruptions, the Department of Homeland Security’s IT modernization strategy accelerated in 2020. The agency already moved about 75% of its network traffic to a new enterprise cloud-based network, and it hopes to finish the transition from legacy IT systems to the new network by early spring, said Deputy CIO (and current acting CIO) Beth Cappello.

Rapid prototyping methodologies that have been widely implemented across industry have shown considerable promise for advancing digital modernization throughout government, according to tech accelerator Dcode.