NASA CIO Warns of Increased Cyber Threats to Agency Apr 7, 2020 | 12:10 pm In an agencywide memo, NASA CIO Renee Wynn warned that cyber threats have significantly increased during the Coronavirus pandemic. […]
NASA CIO Renee Wynn Retiring in March Jan 29, 2020 | 2:13 pm National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) CIO Renee Wynn will retire on March 31 after 30 years of public service, a NASA official confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
House Oversight’s FITARA 9.0 Hearing to Feature NASA, DHS CIOs Dec 9, 2019 | 6:01 pm Chief information officers from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and NASA are scheduled to testify at the House Government Operations Subcommittee’s hearing on Dec. 11 to discuss results of the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s ninth FITARA (Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act) Scorecard, MeriTalk has learned. […]
NASA Over the Moon for Cyber Resiliency Nov 8, 2019 | 9:14 am As the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) focuses on returning to the moon by 2024, cyber resiliency belongs in every step of the process, according to NASA CIO Renee Wynn. […]
FITARA Scorecard Could Use Some Updating, Panelists Say Oct 23, 2019 | 10:35 am The FITARA (Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act) Scorecard issued every six months by the House Oversight and Reform Committee could benefit from updates to some of its Federal agency IT scoring categories, several panelists said Oct. 22 at the ACT-IAC Imagine Nation 2019 conference. […]
Internal Assessment Helped NASA With FITARA Improvement Dec 19, 2016 | 3:57 pm Renee Wynn, chief information officer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said that the agency’s internal Business Service Assessment can account for its improvement in IT management. […]
The Situation Report: Top 25 CIOs–Will They Stay or Will They Go? 3 Dec 7, 2016 | 12:15 pm Who will be leaving the Federal CIO ranks during the transition and who might be staying? With the help of a veteran industry executive who has tracked this very issue, we pulled together a list of 25 Federal CIOs. […]
Empowered CIOs Make ‘Unprecedented’ Security Decisions Nov 21, 2016 | 12:55 pm In determining whether agency CIOs have learned their lesson after the 2015 OPM data breach, Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, commended NASA CIO Renee Wynn on her “unprecedented” move to refuse an end-user service provider the authority to operate due to a lack of knowledge about the potential risks of that service. […]
Space Agency’s FITARA Grade Baffles Lawmakers May 18, 2016 | 5:59 pm NASA’s progress meeting the requirements of FITARA has been anything but out of this world. Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voiced disappointment at the mediocre progress made by most agency chief information officers, but NASA, arguably the most high-tech of all Federal agencies, was the only one to receive an F. […]