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DHS, EPA, 18F and others are developing separate contracts for dev/ops services, creating both a much needed culture change, but possibly also another area where contract proliferation and duplication reign.
The Office of Management and Budget updated Circular A-130 with the requirement for agencies to focus on risk management when deciding on how to protect networks and systems.
President Barack Obama signed the MEGABYTE Act into law, and GSA released two new shared services offerings to keep the “slow” summer months hopping.
Rob Klopp, the SSA chief information officer, and Rob Thomas, the deputy assistant secretary and principal deputy CIO in VA’s Office of Information and Technology, both are focusing on workforce training to move off legacy systems.
Two feds who have experience moving to the cloud offered up lessons learned from their experience, including the one thing that makes all the difference.
The Office of Management and Budget issued a final memo banning most new contracts for mobile devices and services.
A third memo from the administration since 2009 is pushing agencies to consolidate, optimize and move data centers to the cloud.
The Environmental Protection Agency's forthcoming agile blanket purchasing agreement could be worth up to $200 million. Last week, the EPA technology shop hosted a standing-room-only vendor day for agile software companies. EPA Chief Information Officer Ann Dunkin joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the day and the strategy.
Defense Department Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen says a trip to Silicon Valley further cemented the department's goal transitioning to the cloud and updating security credentials
Through HHS’ Entrepreneur-in Residence program and Transportation’s chief innovation officer, these agencies are among the few that are committing resources and people to thinking differently about problems and challenges.
The IT COST Commission Report lays out 21 recommendations for agency CIOs to help them classify, compare and prioritize spending when it comes to the acquisition of IT for the federal government.
Jonathan Alboum, USDA’s chief information officer, said he is working through the agency’s CIO Council to develop a concept of operations to modernize the agency’s networks and move to the cloud.
Roopangi Kadakia joins the Veterans Affairs Department as its new chief information security officer after spending the last five years at NASA.
Lawmakers are offering the Modernizing Obsolete and Vulnerable Enterprise IT (MOVE-IT) Act as an alternative to the White House’s $3.1 billion IT Modernization Fund proposal to help agencies update technology networks and applications.
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