Modernization

Agencies on track to implement White House IT strategy, CIOs say

Meeting the goals of 25-point plan for moving applications to the cloud will require leadership push, according to federal panelists.

Modernization

Key Army radio system has a 72 percent failure rate

Service had to dispatch runners for communications during field testing.

Cybersecurity

Administration excoriated for delay in proposing cyber plan

Impatient Sen. Whitehouse elicits promise from Homeland Security secretary that White House will soon deliver legislative offer to thwart online attacks.

Digital Government

Army can't track mental health records of deployed soldiers

An internal message shows the service is 'saturated' with paper records it cannot easily manage.

Modernization

Improving public health one app at a time

A new NIH program will use wireless devices to promote better medical care.

Modernization

Veterans Affairs kicks off cloud e-mail

Government's largest cloud computing program to date will cost $150 million and transfer 600,000 VA employee mailboxes.

Modernization

DISA foresees no hiccups in switch to new Internet protocol

Transition to IPv6 later this year likely to be easier for Defense Department than for commercial users, official says.

Digital Government

VA launches open source approach for electronic health record modernization

Project could benefit health care providers across the country.

Digital Government

Pentagon request for military health comes in flat for fiscal 2012

Military Health System would receive $1.423 billion for IT infrastructure, electronic health records and theater information medical systems.

Digital Government

Defense acquisition chief foresees more industry mergers

Pentagon will rely mostly on market forces in deciding to allow consolidation of smaller military contractors, Ashton Carter says.

Digital Government

New Defense-VA record tracks individuals from enlistment to grave

Veterans Affairs' fiscal 2012 budget request says Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record will provide unprecedented electronic connectivity.