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OIG: DHS CIO has little say over component IT budgets
Despite an ongoing and concerted effort to make the Homeland Security Department more cohesive, the DHS chief information officer is only viewing IT budget documents once they're submitted by components.
Spires: DHS reducing redundancy
"It turns out, if you count it up--and we have--…we actually have 117 different screenings that we do," said DHS CIO Richard Spires.
Audio: Richard Spires speaks at AFECA NOVA
Richard Spires, chief information officer of the Homeland Security Department, spoke May 11 during an event put on by AFECA-NOVA in Tysons Corner, Va. Click below on the media player to listen to his...
Spotlight: DHS competition aims to oust LMR in favor of 4G LTE
The Homeland Security Department will launch a prize competition in the next 6 months that will challenge the public to come up with a solution to leverage 4G LTE technology in place of land mobile ...
FedRAMP JAB to name third party assessment organizations by May
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the General Services Administration are now reviewing the first set of third party assessment organizations, and by May the FedRAMP joint...
Audio: Federal officials discuss progress on FedRAMP
Federal officials representing FedRAMP's joint authorization board spoke April 13 during an event hosted by AFFIRM in Washington, D.C. Scroll down to the media player to listen to the panel in...
New DHS office tackles broadband network next steps
The Homeland Security Department has stood up a joint program office bringing together Customs and Border Protection, Secret Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Coast Guard officials to
Audio: Federal CIOs discuss the fiscal 2013 budget proposal
Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel and other federal CIOs spoke Jan. 24 during an event hosted in Maryland by AFCEA Bethesda. The event began with almost an hour of remarks from
GAO identifies duplicative IT investments at DoD, DoE
Thirty-seven information technology investments at the Defense and Energy departments, in a sample of 810, were found to be potentially duplicative--meaning approximately $1.2 billion spent from 2007
FedRAMP baseline controls released
Federal officials released Jan. 6 security controls that constitute the basis of governmentwide authorization and accreditation of cloud computing systems. The controls (.zip), part of a program
