An increased focus on agile development and contracting is helping the Department of Homeland Security move ahead on a host of technical fronts, DHS CIO Luke McCormack said.
“We’re transforming, using modern techniques to modernize” the department, he said during a panel discussion at AFCEA’s Homeland Security Conference on June 22.
He added that the increasingly close collaboration with DHS Chief Procurement Officer Soraya Correa though programs such as the Procurement Innovation Lab, which lets contracting officers try out new ideas, is helping to shift the agency’s culture toward “taking risk to eliminate risk.”
