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Why zero trust could fail within the DOD without automation

Billy Mitchell — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:36:09 +0000

The Department of Defense is undertaking a massive effort to adopt a zero trust security architecture across its enterprise by 2027. As ambitious as that effort is, it’s not going to happen without the support of automation driving it, according to DOD chief informations security officer Dave McKeown.

McKeown spoke recently at the UiPath Together Public Sector summit about the role of automation in cybersecurity and how it also likely could’ve prevented recent leaks of classified information within the DOD.

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Why agencies need to start planning now for ap potential CR

cfisher — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 18:33:54 +0000

Experts are fearful that passage of appropriations for fiscal 2024 may be an ugly process that results in a hefty continuing resolution. While the CR would keep the government running, it would forbid federal agencies from spending money to start new programs or new activities. a continuing resolution could severely hamstring federal innovation, particularly on the defense side as the Pentagon and military services look to accelerat adoption of emerging tech in anticipation of a potential conflict with peer competiors like China or Russia. That’s according to Meagan Metzger, CEO of Dcode and a general partner with Dcode Capital, both of which focus on helping make the government better through innovative acquisition practices.

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How automation can solve for workforce challenges and be a driver for innovation

Billy Mitchell — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 18:18:13 +0000

The Department of the Air Force is leveraging automation as a strategic imperative to support the service’s warfighting and defense mission. Particularly as the U.S. military is in the midst of a talent war, robotic process automation enables the Air Force to do more with less and to create work for airmen that is exciting and innovative.

That’s according to Air Force Director of Enterprise IT Venice Goodwine, who discussed the power of RPA and the Air Force’s DAF-Bot program at the UiPath Together Public Sector Summit. Listen to this episode to hear what she had to say.

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Inside the Army’s work to modernize its network outside of the U.S.

cfisher — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:55:33 +0000

The U.S. Army is undertaking a massive transformation to establish a unified network. The Global Enterprise Network Modernization – OCONUS program office, known as GENM-O, is responsible for providing network and infrastructure modernization to global stakeholders in the Europe, Pacific and Southwest Asia theaters. Tom Dunaway is product manager of GENM-O, leading the OCONUS effort as part of the Army’s larger network modernization in support of the service’s goal of establishing data-centric, multi-domain operations by 2028.

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Progress made and top priorities for the Pentagon chief information officer in 2023

cfisher — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 18:32:14 +0000

Halfway through calendar year 2023, the Pentagon’s Office of the Chief Information Officer has accomplished quite a lot in a short amount of time, from early work implementing zero trust to first task order awards under the department’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, according to CIO John Sherman. And there’s much more to come through the rest of the year, Sherman said during a keynote recently at DefenseTalks 2023. Listen in to Sherman’s progress update for his office so far in 2023 and what he sees as the way ahead.

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The evolution of the Army’s cybersecurity

cfisher — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 19:12:20 +0000

Army CISO Jan Norris has almost been on the job for a year. During that time, the Army has been on a whirlwind of a cybersecurity journey, modernizing its systems and adopting a zero trust security architecture while facing, as Norris put it, weekly breaches and Threat activity, data leaks, and the new discoveries on an ever expanding cyber attack surface.

Norris recently shared about this journey and his first year as CISO during a keynote at Swish Data’s GIST 23 conference.

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The Coast Guard’s data evolution; Next-gen computing built on the cloud

Philip Reynolds — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 17:10:23 +0000

Capt. Brian Erickson took the stage recently at the SWISH Data GIST 23 conference to share more about what his nascent office is doing to elevate data for transformation within the Coast Guard. Listen to what he had to say.

Agencies across the federal government are looking to the cloud to elevate their next-gen computing capabilities.

In this interview with Scoop News group’s Wyatt Kash, Christian Hoff of AWS, highlights how NOAA, Customs and Border Protection and other agencies are using the cloud to advance their high-performance computing, data management and AI efforts — and what to look for at the upcoming AWS Summit in Washington, D.C.

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Agencies gain new performance capabilities with the cloud

marielaecheverria — Thu, 25 May 2023 19:30:00 +0000

Federal agencies continue to make significant strides in advancing their missions using cloud-enabled high-performance computing, data management and AI — many of which will be showcased at Amazon Web Services’ annual summit in Washington, D.C., June 7-8, according to Christian Hoff, director of AWS’s US federal civilian and health team.

Hoff spoke to FedScoop on a recent episode of The Daily Scoop Podcast and previewed some of the cloud applications AWS has seen at federal agencies.

Using cloud technologies has allowed agencies to “gain insights faster and quickly move from idea to mission enablement, with virtually unlimited compute capacity,” he said, pointing to several examples:

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) leveraged the increasing capacity the cloud offers in high-performance computing to advance its numerical weather prediction models. “The quality of the forecast is strongly correlated with the rise of HPC performance and ultimately leads to more timely and accurate forecasts that benefit us all,” he told FedScoop.

At NASA, “scientists are now able to quickly launch HPC models from Python notebooks, and then analyze and visualize results as they are created.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was able to pivot quickly and dramatically when a contractor supporting three of its call centers unexpectedly went bankrupt. Using several AWS cloud services, CPB was able to stand up hardware, enterprise software, multiple-language support tools, workflow automation, monitoring systems and train over 300 employees — all in just two weeks.

The Small Business Administration, like several agencies pressed to respond to emergency demands during the pandemic, leveraged the cloud to scale up support for the economic injury disaster loans for over 3.7 million businesses and the veteran small business certification process for over 20 million individuals.

Hoff highlighted these and other examples in the podcast of ways agencies are not only capitalizing on cloud capabilities but also able to respond more quickly and efficiently to new and emerging demands.

The AWS Summit in Washington, DC, will feature more than 220 sessions featuring experts to help agencies accelerate their mission with cloud technology, including keynote presentations from Nand Mulchandani, CTO for CIA’s Chief Technology Office and AWS Worldwide Public Sector Vice President Max R. Peterson II.

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This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by AWS.

Christian Hoff is the US Federal civilian and health team director at Amazon Web Services.

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Human-centered design at USDA; Consumer-grade experiences at IRS

james.mahoney — Thu, 18 May 2023 17:24:17 +0000

The Department of Agriculture has a vast array of customers, from farmers to families. USDA is working to personalize content and experiences across multiple channels.

Simchah Suvekye-Bogin, chief customer experience officer in USDA’s Office of Customer Experience, explains how her organization is improving customer experience and best practices they’ve learned along the way.

The Internal Revenue Service is another agency looking to modernize the digital front door for citizens.

David Aten, human capital officer at IRS, tells Wyatt Kash how his agency is modernizing their website and giving American citizens a more “consumer-grade” experience.

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Using data to strengthen cybersecurity at USCIS

james.mahoney — Tue, 16 May 2023 20:14:32 +0000

Agencies across government are moving to become more data-driven. At GIST 23 last week, Scoop News Group’s Wyatt Kash spoke with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Chief Information Security Officer Shane Barney, to discuss how USCIS is using data to bolster its cybersecurity strategy.

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