Renee Wynn, chief information officer of NASA, said agencies should work with the Office of Management and Budget to come up with policies with regard to mobile communications, FedScoop reported Tuesday.
“OMB is already beginning to think about what policies need to change in order to enable this because otherwise CIOs like myself are going to have to make risk-based decisions that are outside some of the policy frameworks because they don’t match up,†Wynn said Tuesday at an Advanced Technology Academic Research Center event.
She mentioned the Trusted Internet Connections 3.0 guidance and provided updates on the space agency’s mobile priorities including acquisition and mobile security.
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