Lisa Schlosser

The Next Big Issue Federal IT Officials Will Need To Tackle

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Procurement is emerging as one of the most significant issues facing federal information technology leaders as the Obama administration begins its second term, a top ranking government IT official said this week.

More and more federal agencies are making the leap to cloud computing, adopting mobile technologies and developing APIs to share information. But agency IT leaders remain hampered from moving faster by contracting constraints that make it hard to make cross-agency buys, said Richard Spires, chief information officer for the Department of Homeland Security and vice chairman of the Federal CIO Council. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 16, 2012 at 8:00 AM

Women At FOSE: Workplace Diversity Drives Innovation

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Women in government technology provide much more than a shift in statistics. The diversity provides a hotbed for innovative ideas, top female executives said during a keynote session at the annual FOSE convention in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

“There’s a real business reason to think about how we bring more women into the workforce,” said Lisa Schlosser, deputy associate administrator in the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of E-Government and Technology. “The fact of the matter is that bringing diversity into the workplace inspires more ideas and innovation.” Keep reading →

 /  Published April 5, 2012 at 4:30 PM

Federal Mobility Roadmap Evolves Into Broader Digital Government Strategy

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The federal government’s march to mobility will increasingly revolve around a new, broader digital strategy, expected to be released this spring, a White House Office of Management and Budget official said today.

Lisa Schlosser, deputy chief information officer at OMB, said the administration and Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel are continuing to embrace the mobility revolution. VanRoekel publically declared 2012 as the “year of mobile government” earlier this year in a speech at the Consumer Electronics Show and highlighted an initiative to develop a new Federal Mobility Strategy. Keep reading →

 /  Published March 15, 2012 at 1:52 PM

Women In Federal IT: Collaborating Amid The Complex

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In honor of Women’s History Month, Breaking Gov highlights women’s relatively recent breakthrough in the growing and increasingly crucial world of federal IT. This is the first of a three-part series on women in federal IT that reveals who these leaders are and how they’re making a difference.

Just 15 years ago, women were the exception in federal IT roles. In fact, at the time, men claimed every top federal technology job in government. Keep reading →

 /  Published March 12, 2012 at 12:30 PM