Three things Treasury’s Fiscal Service learned about deploying bots in the government

Zielinski has seen a quick rise as an IT acquisition leader at GSA.

Continuing resolutions, the weapon of choice for financing the government for the past dozen years, could be a way for the TMF to sidestep appropriators.

Investments are undergirded by a surge in IT spending, with 14 percent growth between 2016 and 2017.

The agency put out a request for information this week.

Amid both a massive reorganization and ongoing IT modernization efforts, the General Services Administration is losing its technology chief.

Finding more efficiency in the ATO process has been a conundrum for public and private sectors, but an 18F team thinks they may have finally cracked it.

Workforce reskilling strategies already reside within the private sector — can the government adopt and scale them for 2 million federal employees?

Experiments at up to 20 of 187 bases globally will "leverage commercially owned and operated IT services at those bases to learn and adjust before transitioning to the rest of the AF starting in 2020."

According to GAO, "officials from most agencies stated that their CIOs are implementing the responsibilities even when not required in policy."

Joanne Collins-Smee will leave GSA for the private sector at the end of August.

The Customer Experience Playbook focuses on the policy and culture challenges agencies will have to navigate to deliver customer-focused tools and services.

Asked at a hearing Wednesday how lawmakers could be of assistance in helping agencies better secure their IT infrastructures, Kent pointed immediately to a "continued focus on workforce activities."

The Trump administration is looking to create a public-private partnership laboratory to research how to build a better government.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking to better leverage artificial intelligence in the front-facing services it provides to its customers.

What do the five offices actually look like? FedScoop took an exclusive tour to find out.

OMB has launched a new website, strategy.data.gov, to encourage public comment on the Federal Data Strategy.

The plan promotes the use of modern technology to improve service delivery as a central tenet in the 21st century federal government.

The agency issued a request for information Monday seeking industry input on how the Trump administration can adopt the widely used strategy for tracking IT spending.

When it gets down to the nitty gritty of emerging tech, top IT officials want to talk more about people and process than the technology.

With the growth of big data analytics, Kent said increased demand for data science talent could equal or outpace that of cybersecurity in the federal government.

DataRobot's Erin Hawley gives three ways machine learning can cut down on the security clearance backlog.

The challenge for agency leaders will not only be to upgrade their technology, but also to sustain their propensity for transformation.

The agency is soliciting information for commercial SaaS payroll solutions to use in its potential $2.5 billion initiative called NewPay.

The White House’s plan to transform the government’s IT infrastructure, workforce and data management is facing a familiar foe: entrenched partisanship.

The White House hopes its newest executive order can get CIOs a bigger seat in agency leadership by giving them backing from the president.

Information is the "currency" of the Department, Ken Rogers, acting deputy CIO for business management and planning, said at an event on Thursday.

The department's CIO said it is already using the White House-approved accounting framework to get better insight into its technology terrain.

Leaders say though the implementation of TBM is ongoing, early returns are showing the benefits of using the taxonomy.

"A lot of the things we're doing are still the same," Kent said. "Our focus is accelerating [modernization] and moving to a turbo boost."

Deputy U.S. CIO Margie Graves said her team wants to do a better job of holding agencies accountable for meeting goals on a quarterly basis.

Officials looking to begin the lift of transforming their infrastructures could start by applying microservices to their underlying systems.

"Results have proven that women are more effective collaborators and what you deliver is actually better," Kent said at a Women in Federal IT and Cyber event on Thursday.

Through a vast transformation of federal operations, the President’s Management Agenda aims to deliver citizen services with private sector efficiency.

Officials said building the government's future IT infrastructure will depend heavily on the collaboration of the Federal Acquisition Service's components.

OMB put an operational pause on Performance.gov last summer as it readied federal reorganization plans.

The first edition of OPM's quadrennial federal workforce review calls for the agency to adopt new technology tools to keep track of the public sector's talent gap.

Congress still faces a pileup of budget questions converging on the calendar, including the anticipated unveiling of the fiscal 2019 budget, federal agency reorganization plans and ongoing fiscal 2018 budget negotiations.