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GSA honors top federal achievers at IRMCO

GSA bestowed its annual awards for federal agency programs that improve government operations and increase transparency.

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FDA launches 40 online performance management dashboards

The Food and Drug Administration has started its online performance management system that tracks agency performance measures on 40 Web-based dashboards.

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IG questions SSA's data center siting process

The SSA's Inspector General knocks agency's process for choosing a location for its new $800M data center.

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Cloud raises diplomatic issues, top Clinton aide says

Collectively hosting applications and hardware off-site promotes the exchange of ideas, but it also raises the question about who owns the information, says State Department's senior adviser Alec Ross.

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Need precedes the deed of moving to the cloud

NOAA's use of cloud computing for the National Weather Service's Web site could be a model for other agencies.

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Recommended reading

The truth about cell phones and airplanes; office technology and the multitasking illusion

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What you need to know about storage in the cloud

Because new data centers might not be an option to accommodate future government data growth, cloud storage services might provide an answer.

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Cloud storage: Interest, but little action now

What are your plans to adopt pay-per-use hosted storage from service providers such as Amazon Simple Storage Service, EMC Atmos, Nirvanix, Planet or AT&T?

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Army impressed by initial test of next generation radios

A central part of a plan to modernize brigades, radios will link units so they can transmit broadband data, including imagery.

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Federal cloud computing just got easier

Government Computer News

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Coming to terms with FaceSpace

Federal Computer Week

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Study: Much of cloud's savings would come from IT job losses

Cost reductions would depend on the number of positions executives would be willing to cut or transfer, but former federal IT officials counter that agencies must move their technology talent to understaffed functions that support their missions.

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Open-government groups set to score agencies' transparency plans

Advocates for open government plan to score agencies' open government plans, planned to be released April 7.

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Google's new document sharing app a security risk, experts say

But administrators have more control to block services that would allow sensitive documents from being sent accidentally, other cyber specialists say.