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Friday, December 9, 2011
DOT: Leading the IPv6 Initiative
The global Internet transition from IPv4 to IPv6 picked up significant momentum late last year with the OMB IPv6 Mandate (released in September of 2010). This Federal CIO and OMB mandate requires all public/external facing servers and services to operate on the IPv6 system (including web, DNS, and ISP services) by the end of FY 2012. Shortly thereafter, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) announced that the final blocks of IPv4 addresses were handed out to Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) on February 3rd, 2011.
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Monday, November 14, 2011
IT Vital Signs
One of the hardest things to do as a CIO is to make sure that all of your projects and programs perform at a consistently high standard. Part of the challenge is that it’s difficult to even identify a benchmark...
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Friday, November 4, 2011
Portfolio Rationalization:Effective Optimization of IT Funds
IT portfolios in large organizations become bloated over time with an ever-increasing inventory of applications running on multiple platforms, duplicative or misaligned systems or technologies whose ability to deliver value has degraded over time. As a result, a majority of the IT budget gets allocated to “keeping the lights on” rather than investing in new strategic initiatives.
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Friday, October 21, 2011
Telephony: Streamlining Service Delivery
Improving and consolidating our customer service offerings is an excellent way to minimize our costs while enhancing our public-facing functionality through technology solutions. On April 27, the President signed an executive order to streamline service delivery and improve customer service. The order sets out guidelines to help federal agencies keep pace with and even exceed the public’s customer service expectations.
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Friday, October 7, 2011
FDCCI – Lowering Costs & Environmental Impact of Government IT
At DOT, we view FDCCI as an opportunity to leverage new technologies and surplus data center capacity to achieve further cost savings and cost avoidance.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
The “Business” of Cybersecurity!
October marks our 8th Annual Cybersecurity Awareness Month at Department of Transportation (DOT). The theme of our overall awareness campaign is “Cybersecurity is Our Responsibility”. Each consecutive week will focus on a specific theme including remote access, mobile devices, data protection, PIV card provisioning and education and training for IT security professionals.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Digital Transportation Exchange: An Open Government Initiative
The President unveiled the National Open Government Action Plan today to highlight the Administration’s commitment to open government. The Status Report is currently available on the White House Open Government Initiative blog and reports on the progress made towards transparency, participation, and collaboration with the public over the past two-and-a-half years.
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011
IT Solutions – Connected Vehicle Technology
As transportation needs evolve, IT needs to evolve with it. At the Department of Transportation we are leading the way through the development of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). In partnership with the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) and other DOT Administrations, the Office of the Chief Information Officer is taking proactive steps to modernize transportation and response systems to keep up with the booming technology industry.
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Friday, August 19, 2011
Catalysts for the Future: The Digital Transportation Exchange
Innovation in the transportation sector is increasingly spurred through the use of Web 2.0 technologies. Fundamental to this innovation is the ability to rapidly build and maintain useful networks of people and ideas, collaborate with public and private partners, and pair venture capital with entrepreneurs.
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Thursday, June 9, 2011
IT Reform at the Department of Transportation
The execution of the 25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal IT Management has given us an exciting opportunity to streamline delivery of the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) IT services and infrastructure.
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
The Changing Role of the CIO
Tags: Nitin PradhanIn today’s world, change is the only constant, innovation means survival, collaboration creates opportunities, and transformation leads to success.
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