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Cloud vendors worry small businesses are shut out of the federal market

Report calls out the Obama administration for certifying existing large contractors before newcomers.

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Video: Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives CIO Rick Holgate

Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives Chief Information Officer Rick Holgate tells Nextgov when ‘bring your own device’ makes sense, when it doesn’t and how his agency is tackling web reform.

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DHS to unveil mobile security reference architecture

The agency is looking to address BYOD and mobile security in upcoming framework.

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Agencies grapple with real-world cloud challenges

Hurdles range from security to workforce issues, top federal IT officials say.

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GSA tries to solve contract review problems

Auditors found that GSA had no strategy to determine the appropriate number of awards to issue on a blanket purchase agreement, promping action from the agency.

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Technology aids regulation reform

Some agencies find technological tools to help meet presidential demand for reduced regulations.

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NASA pulls back from open-source community with praise

OpenStack, an initiative launched by NASA and vendor RackSpace, has grown up nicely, official says.

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Energy inventory missed 500 data centers

Those omitted from a count the department sent OMB are managed mostly by contractors.

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BlackBerry tells feds: Get on the bus

Research In Motion is looking to shore up loyalty among federal workers.

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IG finds holes in Army financial data system

Army managers did not reengineer their Logistics Modernization Program system to perform Procure-to-Pay functions correctly, leaving the program open to fraud and poor bookkeeping.

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NIST guide aims to explain cloud in plain language

New document details risk management and other security issues related to cloud computing.

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Army to pay $500M for Future Combat Systems termination

A dozen years after Future Combat Systems was born and three years after it was canceled, the program still bears a hefty price tag.

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The intangible foundation of the digital strategy

One technology empowers the White House's digital strategy.

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Clouds don’t need real-time threat reporting tools to win federal stamp of approval

Providers slated to gain certifications to deliver Web-based services governmentwide by Dec. 31.

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Cloud vendors: Forget continuous threat monitoring

The government drops a security measure it had planned to require of cloud vendors.

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Can the government outsource solutions to its problems?

Technology is enabling a new kind of collaboration, and now the government is looking to institutionalize the approach to solve serious problems.