GSA Administrator Shares 10x Program Lessons for Cultivating Innovation
Administrator Robin Carnahan highlighted the importance of making it easy for people to contribute good ideas and de-risking the stigma around innovation.
Administrator Robin Carnahan highlighted the importance of making it easy for people to contribute good ideas and de-risking the stigma around innovation.
Agencies have a rare opportunity to finally raze bureaucratic silos, reroute workflows, create more dynamic channels of communication, and more.
Often called apps, applications are computer programs that are designed to carry out specific tasks like playing media for end users.
For too many years, government, industry and academia worked in silos to solve overlapping problems. But let’s think about it: Why repeat work that is already done?
From the federal level down, agencies need networks that work consistently, reliably and securely. Fortunately, software-defined, wide-area networking can put agencies’ missions at the forefront of their networking capabilities.
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is reaping the benefits of pandemic-forced changes through technologies like mobile and virtual reality.
While the IT environment has continued to expand with new technologies, the IT team has not. “You really have to automate in order to operate at that scale, to be able to accomplish the work you need to do.”
Agencies relying on the traditional design-bid-build process will struggle to make progress on the backlog of facilities work needing to be done.
The mainframe has a well-deserved reputation as the workhorse of IT operations. But it also has a growing edge as a platform for enterprise innovation.
As the world’s largest employer, the Defense Department’s innovation strategies can inform and improve other agencies that follow them.