Beth Killoran Archives

The General Services Administration (GSA) Headquarters building. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

GSA moving to more modular cloud environment

Cloud brokerage is necessary as agencies look to use the best capabilities from multiple cloud environments, said GSA's deputy CIO.

Apr 28, 2021 By Dave Nyczepir

David Shive, GSA — David Shive speaks Dec. 4, 2018, at the Public Sector Innovation Summit presented by VMware and produced by FedScoop and StateScoop. (FedScoop)

GSA wants to be an ‘end-to-end digital entity’

The agency has digitized most of its intellectual assets, but now it wants to reengineer its business processes to continually improve their efficiency.

Jan 14, 2021 By Dave Nyczepir

General Services Administration GSA building 18F — The GSA building in Washington, D.C. (Tajha Chappellet-Lanier / FedScoop)

GSA’s new chief data officer was a Presidential Innovation Fellow

Paymen Sadegh fills the vacancy left by the agency's first CDO hired in 2013.

Nov 20, 2020 By Dave Nyczepir

GSA’s first CDO, Kris Rowley, has left for the private sector

Since Rowley's departure, Deputy Chief Information Officer Beth Killoran has been leading the CDO and CTO teams.

Mar 31, 2020 By Dave Nyczepir

Department of the Interior — (Tajha Chappellet-Lanier / FedScoop)

CIO Sylvia Burns to leave Interior

Next she'll be the Deputy CIO for Enterprise Strategy at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, an Interior spokesperson said.

Aug 22, 2018 By Tajha Chappellet-Lanier

Beth Killoran out as CIO at HHS, moves to new agency role

New agency CTO Ed Simcox will take over in an acting capacity.

Aug 21, 2018 By Tajha Chappellet-Lanier

A panel discussion “Cultivating IT Interest in Our Young Women with speakers Jason Gray, Education, Joanne Collins Smee, GSA, Renee Wynn, NASA, and Davina Pruitt-Mentle, NIST for the Women in Federal IT & Cyber event in the Jefferson Auditorium, U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC, on March. 29, 2018. (USDA photo by Tom Witham)

Top women in federal IT share inspiration, life advice at CIO Council event

Be intellectually curious, find a mentor and don't be afraid to take an unconventional route, they said.

Mar 30, 2018 By Tajha Chappellet-Lanier

Beth Killoran

Chief Information Officer, Department of Health and Human Services

Mar 22, 2018 By FedScoop Staff

Beth Killoran related HHS’ IT infrastructure to a “cow path,” and the latest technology to a sports car. “What happens when you take that new, great wonderful car and you put it on a cow path?”

Sports cars, cow paths and IT infrastructure — HHS’s modernization dilemma

You wouldn't drive a fancy car down an old dirt road — so why, wondered HHS CIO Beth Killoran, would you put new technology on an old…

Jan 17, 2018 By Billy Mitchell

Acting federal CIO Margie Graves speaks with other federal leaders at a press conference on Monday. (Tajha Chappellet-Lanier)

Beyond USAJobs: CIO Council hiring event brings IT applicants, hiring managers face-to-face

Day one of the inaugural two-day event kicked off on Monday morning in Silver Spring, Md.

Nov 7, 2017