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U.S. Customs and Border Protection used automation to help airlines identify and divert 239,000 at-risk travelers from boarding U.S.-bound flights during the pandemic.

When automation out-delivers IT modernization

Government leaders report automation has fast-tracked large-scale service improvements faster and at lower costs than big-ticket IT modernization projects.

Feb 15, 2023 By Scoop News Group

Government leaders tout big wins for their missions with AI, ML and cloud tools

Executives from the U.S. Army, U.S. Postal Service and the State of New York highlight IT modernization initiatives at Google Government Summit.

Dec 13, 2022 By Scoop News Group

The General Services Administration (GSA) Headquarters building. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

TMF invests more than $20.8M in 3 agencies’ cyber and CX projects

OPM, HUD and the Army are the latest recipients of funding that will modernize IT systems and move them toward zero-trust security architectures.

Oct 6, 2022 By Dave Nyczepir

Raj Iyer speaks at the 2022 Public Sector Innovation Summit. (FedScoop)

For resiliency, the Army may look to rely more on commercial systems than SIPRNet, NIPRNet

In order to be more resilient in the fact of adversary disruptions, the Army may rely more on commercial solutions as opposed to its current network configurations…

Jun 15, 2022 By Mark Pomerleau

Project to converge Army enterprise business systems will be ‘marquee effort’ for CIO

The Army plans to award contracts to industry for IT that could help the department converge its many enterprise business systems.

Jun 10, 2022 By Jon Harper

A U.S. Army Multi Domain Task Force operates from the Tactical Command Post as a part of their premier appearance at Valiant Shield 2018 Sept. 20, 2018. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Danica M. Sirmans)

Army prioritizing data as it revamps for large-scale ops at the division level

Army leaders are looking at how to reduce complexity and ensure the right data gets to the right personnel at the time of need.

May 18, 2022 By Mark Pomerleau

Maj. Gen. Matt Easley spoke to Association of the United States Army annual meeting attendees during the October 13, 2021 Army Advanced Technologies (Cloud and Data) Warriors Corner event at Washington, D.C.’s Walter E. Washington Convention Center. (DoD photo)

Army CISO Easley departs for role at the Pentagon

Maj. Gen. Matt Easley has taken a role as the deputy principal information operations advisor to the secretary of defense.

Feb 22, 2022 By Billy Mitchell

U.S. Army human resources and medical specialists and officers assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, participate in Warfighter 22-1 in the reserve command post on Fort Stewart, Georgia, Oct. 4, 2021. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jason Hull)

After calls to ‘fix our computers,’ military CIOs pledge to get it right

Top CIOs say they "have taken the dialogue around the need to 'fix our computers' at DoD to heart."

Feb 4, 2022 By Billy Mitchell

Chinooks of 25th Combat aviation brigade support 1-27 Gimlets in the execution of IPACC. (Army Photo)

Army working to deploy first OCONUS cloud system in the Indo-Pacific

The Army is building a hybrid cloud that uses both on-premise data centers and commercial cloud services to operate outside the continental U.S, or OCONUS, said CIO…

Jan 24, 2022 By Jackson Barnett

Army CIO Dr. Raj Iyer gives out a service award at the Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes Dec. 15 2020. (Emanuel Cavallaro / DVIDS)

Log4J flaw causing Army to take second look at open source software

Army CIO Raj Iyer says the department is putting "extra effort" into cybersecurity following discovery of the vulnerability last year.

Jan 13, 2022 By Jackson Barnett