Energy Department taps Twitter, Google alum as CIO
Ross Graber will take over as DOE’s top IT official after former SpaceX network engineer Ryan Riedel lasted a month in the job.
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Workday eyes federal expansion amid an administration that wants ‘to do things differently’
Workday’s top executive says the company’s “massive investment” in the federal government comes amid “the perfect inflection point when the government's saying we’ve got to do things…
Agency IT shouldn’t be siloed, former Trump federal CIO says
Suzette Kent said the federal government has “taken some baby steps” away from the approach, but needs to make enterprise its North Star.
Ahead of possible shutdown, Sen. John Curtis calls on Congress to innovate ‘broken’ budget process
The existing budget process is “broken,” the Utah Republican said Thursday, pointing to Congress’s regular inability to pass full appropriations on time.
The Trump administration picks a U.S. CTO; Judge says the DOGE will likely have to turn over its records sooner rather than later
The White House’s CTO nominee earned a PhD from MIT and spent time at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. And, Elon Musk’s group is…
Trying to make sense of the elimination of 18F
Former GSA Administrator Dan Tangherlini discusses the termination of the GSA tech team.
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CISA completed its election security review but won’t make the results public; Secretary Hegseth issues a new directive on DOD software acquisition
Critics said the decision creates broad uncertainty among other stakeholders who work to protect elections. And, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a new memo to Pentagon leaders…
GSA reveals plans to reduce TTS tech services arm by 50%, eliminate non-statutory work; Former State Department CAIO Matthew Graviss joins Atlassian
Thomas Shedd, Technology Transformation Services director and Tesla alum, said during a town hall that only critical and statutorily required work will continue. And, Matthew Graviss has…
SSA bans news websites on agency devices
An SSA employee confirmed that many mainstream news websites like CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, the New York Times and the Washington Post have been blocked.
How probationary firings are ‘devastating’ to cyber, national security; In light of court rulings, some fired probationary employees are being reinstated
Rob Joyce emphasized during a House hearing how important probationary employees are to NSA efforts to counter China and other threats in cyberspace. And, fired probationary employees…