Modernization
GSA honors top federal achievers at IRMCO
GSA bestowed its annual awards for federal agency programs that improve government operations and increase transparency.
Modernization
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.
Modernization
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.
Modernization
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.
Modernization
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.
Modernization
Recommended reading
The truth about cell phones and airplanes; office technology and the multitasking illusion
Modernization
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.
Modernization
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?
Modernization
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.
Modernization
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.
Modernization
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.
Modernization