OMB

• Digital Services

A new prioritization model for the Technology Modernization Fund ensures government has flexibility to modernize quickly.

• Cybersecurity
• Zero Trust

As cyber crime explodes, cyber experts and federal cyber leaders insist on systemic change.

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

Office of Management and Budget's Deputy Federal CIO Maria Roat has become acting federal CIO and acting federal CISO Jan. 20 after recent departures from Basil Parker and Camilo Sandoval, Roat confirmed to GovernmentCIO Media & Research.

The Office of Management and Budget is expected to release the Federal Data Strategy 2021 Action Plan by the beginning of January with calls for emphasis on maturing data management, tightening cross-agency collaboration and furthering data-skills training, Deputy Federal CIO Maria Roat told GovernmentCIO Media & Research.

The role was vacant in January after Margaret Graves' retirement.

• Digital Services

NOAA is pushing ahead in digitization efforts to meet OMB M-19-21 electronic records requirements.

• Digitization
• Health care

A directive advises agencies to increase use of their technologies, including collaborative tools.

• Workforce

Several confirmed cases in DC area are prompting federal government to implement emergency working procedures.

• Future of Work

Four recent departures at the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security and Office of Management and Budget saw top officials at the agencies venturing to private industry.

Agency CDOs discuss what’s in the plan and how it will shift the data landscape across agencies.

“We have to be intentional in understanding what our citizens are expecting and how they expect to receive those services. We have to fundamentally change how we deliver against those expectations … We need to use every lever we can to drive transformation.”