Andy Ozment, the assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications at the Department of Homeland Security, will join Federal News Radio on Oct. 11 at 1:30 p.m. for a free online chat. Ozment will discuss how his office is supporting National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and provide updates on agency progress in implementing key Obama administration cyber initiatives including the EINSTEIN 3A program, the continuous diagnostics and mit...

In the last eight years, tens of millions more Americans are online, and mobile devices continue to radically change how citizens interact with government. The Administration’s digital strategy is pushing agencies to deliver better services at a lower cost, whether the mission is to support the warfighter overseas, to teach in classrooms more efficiently, or to assist in ending homelessness, and ever-smarter mobile devices are part of th...

Jonathan Alboum, the Agriculture Department’s chief information officer, will join Federal News Radio on July 26 at 2 p.m. for a free online chat. Alboum will discuss USDA’s plans to consolidate more than a dozen disparate networks, to ensure access to data in order to improve decision-making across the bureaus, and to use shares services for commodity IT. Executive Editor Jason Miller will moderate the chat which is underwritten b...

Lt. Col. Robert Williams, the program manager for Army Logistics Modernization Program, will join Federal News Radio on Tuesday, July 26 at 1:30 p.m. for a free online chat. Lt. Col. Williams will field your questions on how the Army is using modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to tackle readiness challenges – from sending urgent spare parts to the battlefield to managing its complex depot maintenance network – and ho...

U.S. Cyber Command's Cyber National Mission Force Commander Maj. Gen. Paul Nakasone will join Federal News Radio for a free online chat at 11:30 a.m. on June 2. Nakasone will discuss the challenges of protecting the nation in the cyber realm, including initiatives and plans to protect Defense Department networks and data. He will address operational challenges and mission critical cyber tasks. Nakasone also will talk about the growth of U.S. C...

Greg Garcia, the CIO of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will join Federal News Radio on May 12 at 9 a.m. for a free online chat. Garcia will discuss how USACE is spending its $225 million IT budget.Garcia will also discuss the Army Corps of Engineers’ role in the Army’s testing of its transition to Windows 10, and how his service is taking advantage of Office 365 in the cloud and working with the Defense Information Systems Agenc...

Homeland Security Department chief information officer Luke McCormack and chief procurement officer Soraya Correa will join Federal News Radio on April 27 at 10 a.m. for a free online chat. McCormack and Correa will discuss how they are working together to modernize DHS systems to take advantage of innovation through virtualization and cloud computing. These advancements are meant to improve network scalability, agility and storage - as requir...

Join Federal News Radio on March 29 at 1:30 p.m. (EDT) for a free live online chat with two Navy leaders who are charting the service’s course toward commercial cloud computing. Susan Shuryn, the cloud computing lead in the office of the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer and Erle Marion, the commercial hosting lead in the Navy’s Data Center and Application Office will field your questions following an appearance on...

Robert Klopp, the Social Security Administration’s CIO, will join Federal News Radio Friday, March 4 at 11 a.m. for a free online chat. Klopp will discuss his priorities in modernizing SSA’s technology systems that include more than 60 million lines of COBOL. Klopp will discuss how SSA is taking advantage of cloud computing and agile development approaches. He also will discuss why open source is a good option for his agency and ho...

Don Anderson, Air Mobility Command’s assistant director of analysis, will join Federal News Radio Thursday, Jan. 21 at 10:30am for a free online chat. Anderson will discuss Air Mobility Command’s use of big data to save money and meet mission goals more effectively. He will talk about how data can make Air Mobility Command more efficient in its flight operations and how data analysis is improving the experience of pilots and warfig...