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Obamacare Cloud Contract Will End Up Costing 10 Times Its Original Value

CMS extends its Verizon contract for seven months because of delays in moving to a new cloud host.

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Telework Week totals more than 160,000 participants

Mobile Work Exchange calculates that this year’s 163,495 Telework Week participants -- most of them federal employees -- saved nearly $14 million in commuting costs.

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Federal 100: Doug Bourgeois

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Federal 100: Horace Blackman

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Federal 100: Bernard Mazer

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Federal 100: Rory Schultz

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Federal 100: Randy Cieslak

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Federal 100: Martin R. Gross

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Federal 100: Travis Howerton

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Federal 100: James Brown

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Federal 100: Gregory Mundell

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Federal 100: Jennifer Gray

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Federal 100: John Bergin

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Federal 100: Steven B. Kousen

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CMS extends Terremark's cloud hosting duties on HealthCare.gov

The extension is needed because the replication of Terremark data didn't begin until the end of December, making it impossible to make a scheduled March 31 move to Hewlett-Packard.

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Microsoft seeks agency try-outs for government cloud platform

Azure for Government is aimed at civilian and defense agencies looking to boost efficiency by reducing the number of data centers and shortening patch intervals.

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Readers take on telework

Despite complaints from some, metrics support the idea that telework helps boost productivity.

Emerging Tech

Private-Sector Technologists -- the White House Wants You

The third group of Presidential Innovation Fellows will focus on open data and crowdsourcing.

Digital Government

Lakota Nation Adopts Bitcoin Rival as Its Official Currency

'I think cryptocurrencies could be the new buffalo,' activist says.