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Understanding the data is the first step for NIH, CMS to prepare for AI

NIH and CMS have several ongoing initiatives to ensure employees and their customers understand the data they are providing as AI and other tools gain…

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NIH looks for new EHR to replace its 20-year old legacy system

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As agencies face budget uncertainty, Democrats propose a 7.4% pay raise for feds

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Funding OMB’s zero trust mandate may be the toughest part of the new strategy

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USDA, Energy taking a page out of DoD’s IT, cyber playbooks

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FILE - In this April 5, 2020, file photo, Navy Rear Adm. John Polowczyk, supply chain task force lead at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington. U.S. officials are invoking a rarely used provision of American law that would shield companies from antitrust regulations to help the country from again running out of medical supplies in a pandemic. Polowczyk, who was appointed to run a White House supply chain task force in response to the outbreak, told reporters last week that the government is expanding the emergency stockpile of critical supplies and medicines managed by the Department of Health and Human Services. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

With initial urgency passed, agencies using pandemic to rethink, innovate processes

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Census data shows how much the last recession hurt veterans

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No printing from home? Agencies unaccustomed to telework navigate culture change

IT Modernization

Agilefall: The place between agile and waterfall development where most agencies live

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How much is enough for IT modernization?

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Analytics reveal areas for mission improvement at USDA, VA

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

Rajiv Uppal at the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, and Jose Arrieta at HHS said bringing the mission offices into the IT modernization discussion…

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When CMS comes out of hiding, there’s plenty of progress to see

Jennie Main, the CMS chief operating officer, and Rajiv Uppal, the CMS CIO, in separate panels detailed how the agency is retraining employees and focusing…

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Automate, reskill and optimize are the three steps to a better SOC

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Shane Barney, the chief Information Security Officer at USCIS, and Togi Andrews, the CISO at FEMA, say automation and reskilling of the workforce is part of how they are evolving their security operations centers.