Rick Holgate

There is a new group of leaders heading in to run the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council on July 1, and many of them are past FedScoop event speakers.

Rick Holgate, chief information officer and assistant director for science & technology, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, discusses trends in mobility in this interview with FedScoopTV.

Challenging economic times lead to innovative solutions as large organizations must find new agile ways to solve problems as is the case right now with the federal government, said IBM U.S. Federal General Manager Todd Ramsey kicking off FedScoop’s Agile Government Summit presented by IBM on Wednesday.

When it comes to procuring information technology services, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has taken an innovative approach into getting the best technology for the best price: they created their own shared services vehicle.

Question: Who knows more about mobile computing then a man with two jobs?

U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Chief Information Officer Richard Holgate discussed the agency’s upcoming multi-agency vehicle for technology services acquisitions, cloud-based email migration and legacy technology upgrades.

A sold out crowd joined FedScoop for the 2nd Annual MobileGov Summit on Thursday at the Hotel Monaco in Washington D.C. for an in-depth discussion on trends and best practices in federal mobility from some of government and industry’s most respected leaders.

A sold out crowd joined FedScoop for the 2nd Annual MobileGov Summit on Thursday at the Hotel Monaco in Washington D.C. for an in-depth discussion on trends and best practices in federal mobility from some of government and industry’s most respected leaders.

Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel announced the federal government’s National Dialogue on the Federal Mobility Strategy that will crowdsource ideas on how to best implement federal mobility and expedite adoption of emerging technologies.