CIO, CTO & CISO
CIO: An Open Letter to the New Federal CIO. The White House finally named a new federal chief information officer on Jan. 19 after a year of waiting. Suzette Kent comes to the government with little or no background in the public sector and no clear information technology background, according to her LinkedIn profile. Federal News Radio asked those who came before Kent at the Office of Management and Budget for some insights, advice and words of wisdom as she takes on this new role. Read more
[NEXTGOV.COM]
CTO: Meet the 7 Leaders Who Will Be Steering Modernization Dollars. The Office of Management and Budget announced seven members for its new Technology Modernization Fund board, drawing IT expertise from across the federal government to oversee the distribution of $500 million in IT modernization funds over the next two years as part of the Modernizing Government Technology Act. The board will be chaired by new Federal CIO Suzette Kent. The other members named by OMB Director Mick Mulvaney on March 1 are Alan Thomas, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service and the General Services Administration; Mark Kneidinger, director of federal network resilience at the Department of Homeland Security; Matt Cutts, acting administrator for the U.S. Digital Service; Social Security Administration CIO Rajive Mathur; Small Business Administration CIO Maria Roat; and Charles Worthington, CTO for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Read more
[FCW.COM]
CISO: How the First-Ever Federal CISO Helped Secure Government’s IT. Driving change in government is notoriously hard – but not impossible. Discover how Greg Touhill successfully drove change and transformation in a bureaucracy. Read more.
[GOVERNMENTCIOMEDIA.COM]
CIO: Striking the Balance Between Legacy and Modern. Chief information officers must walk the tightrope between their agency’s older systems and newer ones. If balance isn’t achieved, it can mean trouble. Read more.
[GOVTECH.COM]
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NOW ON SLIDESHARE: Tech Update Summary from Blue Mountain Data Systems February 2018 https://www.slideshare.net/BMDS3416/tech-update-summary-from-blue-mountain-data-systems-february-2018.
IT SECURITY SUPPORT: Blue Mountain Data Systems is actively involved in implementing FISMA and NIST standards with Federal Civilian Agencies. Due to our extensive experience in this area, Blue Mountain has developed processes and organizational techniques to help ensure security deliverables are completed on time, and performed in the most efficient manner possible. We ensure that NIST-800-53 control requirements are treated consistently during definition, analysis, implementation, auditing, and reporting phases of a system. Find out more about Blue Mountain Data Systems IT Security Support Services. Call us at 703-502-3416.
BLUE MOUNTAIN DATA SYSTEMS HAS THE EXPERIENCE: 1994 to Present – U.S. Dept. of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration. Responsible to the Office of Technology and Information Systems for information systems architecture, planning, applications development, networking, administration and IT security, supporting the enforcement of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act — ERISA. Within the EBSA, Blue Mountain is responsible for design, development and support for its various enforcement database management systems, as well as all case tracking and customer service inquiry systems. Blue Mountain also provides IT security services to the EBSA, in the form of FISMA Assessment and Authorization, System Security Plans, Risk and vulnerability assessments, monitoring and investigation support. Read more.
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