Let’s Talk About IT Ep. 19 — Unleashing Automation in Government, ft. Air Force CIO Lauren Knausenberger
Jun 3, 2021 | FEDSCOOP
One of the Air Force‘s top IT priorities for the next year, according to CIO Lauren Knausenberger, is to “ruthlessly attack manual process.” With programs like “Operation Flamethrower,” and “armies of bot minions,” the service is looking to automate a number of its legacy systems, software and processes to save time and money and let airmen focus on higher-value work.
“We’re at the point where we’ve shown that we can do [automation] very effectively and where we have a lot of our new projects naturally leaning toward more automated processes,” Knausenberger says in a new episode of FedScoop’s Let’s Talk About IT podcast. “And you get more automated processes organically, of course, by adopting cloud environments with built-in services that help take away a lot of the manual work of maintaining an environment the way we’ve done in legacy infrastructure.”