Tag: IT policy
August 25, 2021
Cybersecurity Executive Order will Topple our Industry’s House of Cards
by Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
On May 12, 2021, the Biden Administration released the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. This directive seeks “bold changes and significant investments” to “protect and secure” the Federal Government’s computer systems by:
Section…
August 13, 2020
Managing Cloud Spending is a Challenge; Here Are Some Ways Agencies Can Improve
By Daniel Proctor, TCG Data Analyst
Over the last ten years, spending on cloud services has increased across federal agencies. In 2010, OMB made cloud computing an essential part of government’s plan to modernize IT and IT management, and early…
April 25, 2019
What’s the Process for Creating Federal IT Policy?
Managing more than $80 billion of IT investments across 26 agencies is no small feat. Using sophisticated tools such as ITDashboard.gov, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) works with agencies to collect vast amounts of data and uses…
August 14, 2018
Ready or Not, Here it Comes: Prepare for Technology Business Management
What is TBM?
IT supports most aspects of a modern organization’s performance but it’s historically been difficult to correlate IT investments to business outcomes. Technology Business Management (TBM) is a way to address that challenge. TBM is an expense and budgeting framework and…
July 17, 2017
Cleaning the Federal Policy House
If You Haven’t Used it in Two…or 15 Years, It’s Time to Throw it Away.
On June 15, the White House released Memorandum M‑17–26 to agencies, to eliminate, modify, or pause 59 policies that they deemed out of date or unnecessary.…
April 11, 2017
White Paper: Drowning in Data — The Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) and its Potential Effects on Government Contracting
It started as a steady drip. In the late 1990s that drip became a steady pour. Today, the government is doing all it can to contain the flood.
Data has become ubiquitous to everything we do. Twenty years ago the government was constrained…
March 27, 2017
Paying for Federal IT Innovation
Like a frugal friend that tracks every penny they spend, the government is constantly looking for ways to save money. The new administration, especially, is eager to find savings. By some accounts, President Trump wants to cut up to $10.5 trillion…