Shawn McCarthy

Why local data and local processing are key to giving better citizen experience

Citizens moving about their daily lives are also generating lots of data. Governments at all levels can use that data to improve the digital services they…

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FILE- This Jan. 21, 2017, file photo shows the floor of the main lobby of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va. The FBI “exercised remarkable caution and candor” in securing search warrants that led to espionage charges against a former CIA employee, prosecutors have told a federal judge presiding over the case. Prosecutors said a court hearing is not necessary to reject Joshua Adam Schulte’s claims that evidence should be tossed out because searches of his New York City residence and various electronic accounts were illegal. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Time for DoD to cancel JEDI, ride the CIA’s cloud coattails

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Blockchain continues moving into numerous applications at all levels of government

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8 ways federal agencies are starting to embrace blockchain

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Spending on legacy IT continues to grow, but there is light at the end of the tunnel

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An ‘Easy Pass’ model for buying cloud services? DISA showing how it could work

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CIO Council wants agencies to consider: ‘The best code ever written is the code that is never written’

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Shawn McCarthy: 10 IT trends that will affect government

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Shawn McCarthy: Why government pays more for IT than private sector

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Why $39,000 shows why the IT modernization effort matters so much

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Shawn McCarthy: Is Blockchain an information security solution?

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Shawn McCarthy: DOD has more spending money than you might think in next year’s budget

The Department of Defense is seeing an increase in its projected IT spending for 2016 for the first time in 3 years. The increase is small at 1.6 percent…

Shawn McCarthy, Research Director, IDC Government Insights

Civilian agencies could spend about 10 percent more on IT than what was originally predicted in the fiscal 2015 budget. IDC Government Insights says the…

Shawn McCarthy, Program Manager, IDC Government Insights

The White House budget request for 2016 calls for a 2.3 percent increase in IT spending across the federal government. That’s about a $2 billion increase for a total of $86 billion. Shawn McCarthy is program manager for government IT at IDC Government Insights. On In Depth with Francis Rose, he outlined the top five IT management trends you should think about as you plan to spend that money.