House Oversight and Government Reform Committee members were not happy with the continued slow or lack of progress in implementing the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA).
The Homeland Security Department issued a Binding Operational Directive requiring every civilian agency to expand how it manages high value assets.
An unusually active last few weeks in the federal IT community brings changes in executive positions at DHS, EPA, GSA and USDA.
The administration wanted it to be harder to achieve a good grade on the FITARA scorecard, because it wants to focus agencies on certain tangible actions.
The National Cancer Institute's acting CIO said his first attempt at managed services will be a printing pilot.
DOT Chief Information Officer Vicki Hildebrand is moving from the listening to planning stage to consolidate and modernize technology services.
Acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie described the development as one of the biggest IT contracts in federal government.
It's hard to find a program mission with more clarity than control of an invasive species like feral swine.
In today's Federal Newscast, wary of another last-minute budget deal, seven Republican senators asked Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to expedite floor consideration of funding bills and nominees before the end of the fiscal year.
A May 7 memo from the Defense Department's chief information officers gives "fourth estate" agencies until 2020 to migrate applications from more than 100 data centers.
The new strategy details seven cybersecurity goals the Homeland Security Department wants to tackle within the next five years.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday in an effort to build institutional capabilities to drive IT modernization.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Federal Risk Authorization and Management Program and the Cloud Security Alliance announce the creation of FedSTAR to offer mutual recognition between the two security programs.
FEMA’s longest serving CIO, Adrian Garnder, has accepted a reassignment to be the executive director of recovery communications technology in the Caribbean Area Division.
The Office of Management and Budget says its technology business management framework isn't a formal mandate yet, but it wants agencies' best practices to inform a specific directive in the future.