A big mistake will cost the Labor Department money on its financial management cloud computing contract. Labor failed to require the contractor, GCE, to provide the agency with an easy way to get its data back in a usable format. Federal News Radio’s executive editor Jason Miller is here with details on lessons other agencies can learn from Labor’s costly mistake.

Close of business today is the close of open season 2013, at least officially. You can find all of the resources you need for open season on Federal News Radio. But Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says today might not be the actual last day for everyone.

Federal agencies are spending money to collect information they might already have. The Interior Department says agencies spend billions of dollars every year on geospatial data, but duplicative spending is common every year. David Powner, director of Information Technology Issues at the Government Accountability Office, testified about the duplication to the House Natural Resources subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.

Two of the biggest bills of the year look like they’re coming from Congress this week. We have details of the compromise on the National Defense Authorization Act on later this afternoon and a deal on the federal budget for the rest of this fiscal year may include at least the beginnings of a deal for next fiscal year too.