Carol Harris

Social Security Administration federal data center

New data center journey must include optimization, modernization, hybrid cloud

Tom Santucci, the director of IT modernization within GSA’s Office of Governmentwide Policy, and Steven Naumann, a senior advisor in Office of IT Modernization,…

Ask the CIO

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3 takeaways from FITARA 14

Reporter's Notebook

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3 takeaways from FITARA 13

Reporter's Notebook

FITARA 13 scorecard brings truce to data center consolidation debate

Congress

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When it comes to the data center debate, time to fish or cut bait

Reporter's Notebook

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USPS delivers 100M mail-in ballots, authorizes ‘extraordinary measures’ to local management

Management

Federal IT projects continue to be difficult for agencies to finish

Technology

CIO reporting, working capital funds remain outliers in agency IT modernization progress

Congress

Bill Zielinski, Maria Roat, Brendan Johnson, Small Business Administration

GSA’s e-commerce initiative strained by new protests, questions over supply chain risks

Reporter's Notebook

Risk is high that GSA’s latest telecom contract suffers same fate as last two

Congress

After six years, OMB, GAO still at odds over data center initiative

Reporter's Notebook

GSA, Education, USAID receive ‘As’ on FITARA scorecard

The House Oversight and Reform Committee released the ninth version of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard with 20 of 24 agencies…

Congress

VA to spend $10B on EHR replacement despite firm grasp on current system

GAO said VA doesn’t have a comprehensive definition of its current VistA system, or how much it’s spending to keep it up and running.

Federal Drive

VA’s plans for maintaining VistA spark cost concerns for new electronic health record

Veterans Affairs

Veterans Affairs says it will spend nearly $5 billion over next 10 years to maintain legacy electronic health record while implementing a separate, multi-billion-dollar system at facilities.