Modernization

Pentagon Denies Inadequately Vetting Defensewide Smartphone Security Service

Testing the technology would have required too much time and effort for contractors and Defense.

Digital Government

What Happens When Everyone Makes Maps?

OpenStreetMap and other free, online tools have allowed anyone to become a cartographer.

Modernization

Brutal Smartphone Market Is Clobbering Former Stalwarts

NEC has decided to exit the smartphone business entirely

Modernization

Data center holdup: A question of funding?

A reader wonders whether the mysterious hold on a data-center consolidation project could be over who pays the bill.

Modernization

Pentagon Buys Untested Mobile Security System for 300,000 Users

Contract did not require a past performance evaluation of vendors tapped to configure smartphones and tablets.

Modernization

IRS needs better data center consolidation plan: IG

Agency is shuttering some data centers, but lacks clear metrics or management plan, audit finds.

Modernization

Why the Price of Mobile Data in India Is Suddenly Plummeting

Some of India's leading telecom operators have slashed their mobile data rates by as much as 90 percent.

Modernization

VA terminates $36 million cloud deal with HP

Agency cites changing requirements and "convenience of the government" as the reason for canceling the enterprise e-mail contract.

Modernization

Analysts Expect Government Cloud Spending to Rebound in 2014

More money is going toward infrastructure services instead of software.

Modernization

Why the Smart Grid Might Be a Dumb Idea

Security experts worry that the more connected our electric utilities are to the Web, the more vulnerable they’ll be to cyberattack.

Modernization

DOE data center deal still at impasse

Legislators seek answers as it becomes unclear whether OMB or the Energy Department itself is holding up the department's energy-saving contract.

Modernization

The keys to information interoperability

Best practices to help the government overcome obstacles to sharing and achieve information superiority.

Modernization

GSA and the cloud broker model

The assistant commissioner of integrated technology services clarifies GSA's role and plans for supporting agencies' move to the cloud.

Digital Government

Yes, GIS Files Are Public Data, Too

The California Supreme Court ruled that geographic information system database information is subject to public records laws.

Digital Government

Government Has Dropped the Ball on IT Reform, Lawmaker says

Connolly criticizes slow progress on data center consolidation, cloud computing.

Digital Government

Demand for Laptops Is so Weak That Analysts Have Declared All of 2013 a “Write-Off”

2013 will be the second year in a row in which PC shipments shrank overall.

Modernization

Feds trace path to the cloud

Success strategies, risks and roadblocks revealed at cloud conference.

Modernization

No Wonder China Is Worried About Android -- NSA Helped Write Its Source Code

That explains why China is so eager to encourage alternative smartphones within its borders.