Enterprise Software

Supply chain risk: Addressing a multitude of single points of failure

As recent attacks have demonstrated, supply chain risks extend to the software and update process as well.

  • By John Loucaides

Kessel Run works through growing pains

The Air Force's deputy CIO, Lauren Knausenberger, said the military branch's popular software factory has been a "victim of its own success" as it navigates trying to keep the spark as it gets bigger.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Army extends software contracts under ITES

The Army's enterprise software office extends a multiple award contract.

  • By Mark Rockwell

VA is thinking small with a planned July launch of new financial management system

After sidelining a financial management shared services arrangement with USDA, the VA is set to begin roll out of an integrated software-as-a-service financial management and acquisition capability across its components.

  • By Mark Rockwell

DHS gets serious about a new financial system

The Department of Homeland Security is trying to unify its highly federated structure by switching to enterprise financial management

  • By Mark Rockwell

DOD closes in on 100 percent Windows 10

The Defense Department is sending the message that it doesn't want to pay for expensive out-of-support operating system solutions.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Audit flags multiple concerns for Treasury's IT systems

The inspector general report documents a range of sloppy or incomplete IT practices for agency systems that support national security functions.

  • By Derek B. Johnson

Why data management matters

New technologies are changing government's approach to data and cloud -- or they should be.

  • By Chris Prophett

Census Bureau: Tests show tech is saving time and money

While the agency is facing multiple challenges to operations for the 2020 population count, officials said the use of tech to obtain responses from U.S. residents and carry out enumerations on the ground will pay dividends.

  • By Chase Gunter

NASA extends incumbent on troubled ACES contract

It looks like NASA is going to go the full 10 years on its agencywide $2.5 billion IT services contract ACES, despite early hiccups.

  • By Adam Mazmanian

ICITE shifts to reference architecture

The Intelligence Community's use of a common desktop put some applications at risk, a top ODNI tech official said, and a reference architecture approach could prove more accommodating.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

VA looks to stabilize tech team

Senators stressed the importance of the coming electronic health record modernization project at the confirmation hearing for James Gfrerer, the nominee to lead the Office of Information and Technology at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

  • By Adam Mazmanian

Why modernizing human capital systems is so hard

Treasury, DOD and others are working to modernize talent management, but budgetary, cultural and political challenges complicate their progress.

  • By Chase Gunter

Getting smart about intelligent automation

Agencies are looking to transform everything from contract writing to identity management. The trick could be getting governance to catch up to the tech.

  • By FCW Staff
Featured eBooks

The thinking behind DISA's $8 billion DEOS contract

DISA leaders said the Defense Department's multibillion dollar business solutions contract will be "a constantly evolving service."

  • By Lauren C. Williams

From fighting fires to shaping the future: 4 steps to IT modernization

A sense of urgency is important, but agencies must map a clear path forward before rushing in.

  • By Dave McClure

VA signs $10B deal with Cerner

Acting VA Secretary Robert Wilkie signed the deal naming Cerner as the sole-source software provider on the agency's health record modernization effort.

  • By Adam Mazmanian

The ABCs of PPPs for digital infrastructure

Public-private partnerships are a powerful tool for tackling large, multiyear modernization challenges.

  • By Xavier Williams

Beware of unicorns

Agencies want the benefits that new technologies can bring, but need a sharper focus on the mission impact -- and have grown wary of one-off solutions.

  • By Troy K. Schneider and Mark Rockwell

Agencies failing key agile test

An oversight report found that most agencies were failing to certify implementation of incremental development on some major software projects.

  • By Adam Mazmanian

Agile at scale

Federal agencies are embracing agile development, but new ways of thinking are needed to make it work at government scale.

  • By Venkatapathi "PV" Puvvada