mobility

What You Missed At Microsoft’s CIO Summit

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Nearly 300 government, health and education IT officials trekked to the 10th annual Public Sector CIO Summit in Redmond, Wash., last week sponsored by Microsoft. For those who couldn’t make the trip, Breaking Gov sat down with Greg Myers, who heads Microsoft‘s federal business, to get his read on what agency officials are asking for most – and what he thought were the highlights for federal IT officers at this year’s summit.

Myers, a former Oracle and BearingPoint executive who joined Microsoft in 2009, spoke with Breaking Gov Editorial Director, Wyatt Kash, about the coming merger of IT and telecommunications, the growing importance of cross platform eDiscovery, what’s ahead in cloud computing and mobility, and what federal officials can expect from Windows 8, Skype, and other Microsoft products. Keep reading →

 /  Published March 6, 2012 at 12:36 PM

Senior Executive Talent Underutilized In Federal Government

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A new report released today by the Partnership for Public Service provides fresh perspective on the long standing failure of the federal government to take advantage of its Senior Executive Service and a cadre of more than 7,800 senior leaders many of whom find themselves trapped in the agencies they work for.

The report, “Mission-Driven Mobility,” outlines barriers that SES members face in being able to move from one agency to another, and even within agencies, as intended when the SES was created by Congress in 1978 as a way to spread the experience of senior executives to improve the broader management of government. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 29, 2012 at 9:53 AM

Government’s Mobile Moment

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Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel recently announced the development of a new Mobile Strategy at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. I was there, and was glad to hear his perspective on the potential of mobile technology for government, especially since GSA has been working hard to realize that potential.

Putting mobile IT to the test Keep reading →

 /  Published February 10, 2012 at 5:03 PM

Mobile Computing Is The ‘New Normal’ For Federal Employees, Study Finds

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Mobility at work has become the “new normal” for federal employees, but managing mobility continues to create challenges, a new government sector survey concludes.

The report, based on a survey of 414 federal employees and IT professionals, found: Keep reading →

 /  Published February 10, 2012 at 4:03 PM

Alternative Way To Secure Smartphones For Government

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The Department of Defense has taken on the challenge of determining the safest, most appropriate way to deploy modern smartphones to warfighters while maintaining information security.

The consumerization of IT phenomenon–in particular with smartphones–has indeed posed unique challenges to U.S. federal government IT departments. While users would like to take advantage of the smart gadgets that they often also use for private use, there are substantial Information Assurance (IA) concerns regarding the use of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives. Issues of authentication, authorization, accounting and auditing are paramount. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 17, 2012 at 1:11 PM

Virtualizing “The Wild Blue Yonder”

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Email and SharePoint are no brainers for CIOs looking to move parts of the computing operations to the cloud. But what’s next? Not surprisingly as the Air Force drives to consolidate data centers and move apps to the cloud, IT executives are looking to virtualize as many applications as make sense.

But “sometimes it is difficult to determine what should actually be virtualized,” said Frank Konieczny, Air Force Chief Technology Officer, during a recent Federal Executive Forum on Emerging Technologies. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 16, 2012 at 8:00 AM

VanRoekel To Elaborate On 2012 Federal Mobility Plans In Live Video Event

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Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel is expected to elaborate on a new set of mobile government initiatives during a speech scheduled this Friday that will be broadcast live over the Internet by the trade group AFFIRM and by Breaking Gov.

The broadcast will appear on AFFIRM’s website and carried by Breaking Gov on this page Jan. 13, beginning at noon eastern standard time. (A recorded version of VanRoekel’s remarks are now available here.) Keep reading →

 /  Published January 12, 2012 at 11:51 AM

US CIO Uses Electronics Show To Announce New Federal Mobility Plans

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Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel today announced a new set of initiatives to spur broader adoption of mobile technology for the federal government, calling 2012 “the year of mobile government.”

Speaking at a government conference held at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, VanRoekel described a new 2012 “Roadmap for Federal Mobility” that would put an emphasis on governance, sharing technologies wherever possible, and collaborating with the private sector to accelerate adoption. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 11, 2012 at 5:31 PM

Federal Workforce Faces More Mobile Future But Less Office Space

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The concept of telework and mobility in the federal workplace will go far beyond having just laptops as agencies plan for the future, said General Services Administration CIO Casey Coleman at a panel discussion on mobility at the Executive Leadership Conference in Williamsburg, Va.

“For us, the business case for mobility is not about just the [return on investment] on the IT investments; it’s really about the ROI on the initiative of the business of the whole agency,” Coleman said. Her remarks were captured in a story reported by Federal Computer News. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 27, 2011 at 3:31 PM

Government Agencies Need To Move To The Front Of Mobility Wave

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Federal agencies trying to plot their path toward a mobile future need to be willing to say “yes” to pilot programs even if the outcomes are hard to predict, said Veterans Affairs CIO Roger Baker today in a panel discussion at the Executive Leadership Conference.

But even if agencies move forward to embrace mobile technologies, they must also resolve,” How do we work around interagency silos to share these services,” said Gwynne Kostin, director mobile, GSA Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 24, 2011 at 11:42 AM
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