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GSA says its problem-plagued System for Award Management is now working, but its failures have pushed agency officials to pursue a new path to consolidate the government's approach to procurement data.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) with little debate and no amendments. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the bill's author and chairman of the committee, said the provisions to give CIOs more budget control and the IT project and program management improvements will have a big impact on how agencies spend money on technology.
The developing field of using social media to gather information can provide benefits to the intelligence community, but it also involves challenges. The changing environment of open source intelligence requires agencies and companies plan their approaches carefully.
Your agency is getting some help when it comes to future open source collaboration projects.
CodeSherpas, Inc. founding partner David Bock joins host John Gilroy to discuss how open source technology can benefit your agency. May 17, 2011
The Department of Veterans is moving its electronic health record system to the open source community.
Open source brings numerous benefits to NASA software projects, including increased software quality, reduced development costs, faster development cycles, and reduced barriers to public-private collaboration through new opportunities to commercialize NASA technology. NASA\'s Nicholas Skytland explains.
More agencies are using content management system Drupal to build a web presence that aligns with their mission goals.
The agency\'s Nebula platform is just one possibility in the process of incorporating public cloud initiatives across the board.
The Open Source movement has opened a window for rapid development and implementation of technological solutions in the government space, but there are unresolved issues. State\'s Paul Swider tells us about a recent conference to address some of those issues.
Federal agencies have been ordered to consolidate their datacenters, and both government IT managers and commercial systems integrators are focusing on select open source solutions and open software stacks to help ease this transition. IDC\'s Shawn McCarthy explains how all this works together.
The VA\'s VistA health IT system could be national model, said James Herbsleb, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, in an interview with the DorobekINSIDER.
Agency CIO Baker said moving the electronic health system to open source would let VA to more easily and more quickly use software developed outside of the department. VA\'s decision comes after an industry panel recommended 10 ways to fix VistA.
GOSCON is a meeting of the minds of federal IT professionals on how open source software can help government cuts costs.