Industry Insights
Optimize Your Computer For Working From Home
By Jacob Eberhart, IT Specialist, Excelicon While we’re all away from our desks but at our keyboards, here are a few tips to keep your computers running smoothly. After all, technology is the key for working remotely during this time…
Why Do Business with the U.S. Federal Government in Times of Crisis (or Not)?
By Nitin Pradhan We live in a world of darkness. The below performance chart of the Dow Jone Industrial Average on March 16th, 2020 proves it. There is panic selling happening all across the U.S. and the world. Food shelves…
A Whole Community Approach to Technology Business Management (TBM) & Why I Left Government
By Kelly Morrison, Director, Grant Thornton I’ve always enjoyed collaborating across a wide array of networks on key issues impacting the federal government and its constituents. And I relished my time in government, where I really felt like I was…
Cyber Watch – Are You Really Resilient?
By: Dean C. Gallup MBCP CISM, Director, Cybersecurity and Business Resilience Consulting, Advantaged Solutions, Inc., Vice-President, Mid-Atlantic Disaster Recovery Association (MADRA) Your cyber resilience program can define your agency or organization’s ability to respond to and recover from a cyberattack…
Managing Complex Environments Requires Portfolio Management
By: Chris De Francisci, PMP, CPP, CGEIT, SMP, Center for Connected Government – MITRE, Enterprise Strategy & Transformation Practice, Business Strategy- T871 Voice: (703) 983-1019 Organizations and businesses today are faced with increasingly complex management situations and a massive amount…
News
OMB tells agencies how they can win some of the $1B in the Technology Modernization Fund
By Jason Miller, Federal News Network If federal chief information officers and program managers want to get their hands on some of the $1 billion in the Technology Modernization Fund, they have less than a month to put their plan…
President Biden Announces Key Hire for the Office of Management and Budget
President Biden Announces Key Hire for the Office of Management and Budget March 09, 2021, Https://www.whitehouse.gov WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced Clare Martorana as his choice to serve as the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) and administrator of…
AIM Council Launches New Benefits Exclusively for Members
In our mission to provide meaningful benefit to our Members, AIM Council is proud to launch our Members Only Section at https://aimcouncil.us. From our 12+ years of experience serving the Federal CPIC (Capital Planning and Investment Control) and IT Governance…
AIM Council Announces Appointment of Steven Cooper to Board of Directors
WASHINGTON, (November 12, 2020) — AIM Council has announced the appointment of Steven Cooper to the organization’s Board of Directors. As the Former Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the U.S. Department of Commerce Steven Cooper will bring his vast…
Federal Resources
The Current State of Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform and Management
Updated February 3, 2020 Summary The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has reported that the federal government budgets more than $90 billion each year on information technology (IT) investments. Historically, the projects supported by these investments have often incurred “multi-million dollar…
H.R.1232 – Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act
Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act – Title I: Management of Information Technology within Federal Government – (Sec. 101) Requires the heads of the following agencies to ensure that their respective chief information officers (CIOs) have a significant role in…
President’s Management Agenda
Modernizing Government for the 21st Century Most Americans may not think about the Federal Government every day—but when they need Government services, they expect them to work. As the President has stated, “at all levels of Government, our public servants…
GSA Policy for Information Technology (IT) Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC)
Purpose: This Order establishes agency-wide policies, roles and responsibilities for GSA’s IT Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process. CPIC is an integrated management process for the continuous selection, control, and evaluation of IT investments over their life cycles and…