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IRS consolidates deputy commissioner roles, names other c-suite leaders
It’s the first time the agency’s upper echelons have been restructured in nearly two decades.
Shutdown (re)boot camp: Getting your system and team through unexpected downtime
While a shutdown — or any other outage — may well be the greatest test of your modernization effort, embracing rapid development and Agile practices will set you up for survival and success.
By Matt Pincombe, Excella
Eliminating the growing pains of government IT modernization
It is imperative that agency IT leaders understand where their most critical needs lie and develop a coherent picture of the underlying causes slowing their digitization efforts.
By Shaun Bierweiler, Cloudera
Can new tech help nip inefficiency in the bud at HUD?
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is soliciting IT modernization solutions through the Centers of Excellence program.
By Tony Ware
12 practices that help agencies improve technology management
The Government Accountability Office found that agencies implementing 12 technology management practices performed better on their Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act evaluations.
By Jessie Bur
Inside the IRS’s 6-year plan for better technology
The Internal Revenue Service will spend the next six years overhauling its information technology systems based four pillars of its mission.
By Jessie Bur
How GSA is making software contracts more like commercial sales
The General Services Administration made updates to three special item numbers on it's major IT contract.
By Jessie Bur
Federal Hot Take podcast: Too big to fail? Companies are far ahead of their peers, so who will the government turn to?
In this episode of Federal Hot Take, Mike Gruss, editor of C4ISRNET and Fifth Domain, is joined by Kelsey Atherton, staff writer at C4ISRNET. They talk about the idea of whether “too big to fail” could ever become applicable to technology companies as the government works through a massive modernization effort and how markets may or may not solve this problem before it becomes an issue.
Army Rapid Capabilities Office is getting a new name and mission
The Army's Rapid Capabilities Office is changing -- in name and in charter -- to focus on top Army modernization efforts that don't fall neatly in one bin of effort, but need to be developed at high speed, according to the Army acquisition chief.
By Jen Judson
Looking inward: Congress’s effort to improve itself
Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., chairs the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, where both politicians and the public will have the chance to weigh in on how to make Congress better.
By Jessie Bur
Why GSA uses itself as an IT guinea pig
The General Services Administration has the perfect size and mission to test innovative technologies as potential solutions for the rest of government.
By Jessie Bur