Thomas Flagg stepped into the Education Department’s chief information officer (CIO) role this week to fill the agency’s top tech position that had sat vacant for six months. […]

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After 16 years in the Federal government, the Education Department’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) Luis Lopez is departing this month to head to the private sector, a department spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]

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The Department of Education has tapped its Chief Technology Officer Vijay Sharma to serve as the agency’s responsible AI officer and chief AI officer (CAIO), a department spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk on Tuesday.  […]

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The Department of Education officially launched its formal online application for one-time student debt relief on Monday afternoon after President Biden announced that beta testing for the application handled more than eight million hits over the weekend. […]

With legacy government IT systems increasingly threatened by cyberattacks and Federal agencies on the move to improve security, the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) is proving instrumental in helping the Education Department accelerate its transition to zero trust security architectures. […]

Boosting the use of cloud services may be the answer to expanding implementation of zero-trust models of cybersecurity across Federal agencies and departments, Education Department CISO Steven Hernandez said at an ACT-IAC meeting today. […]

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