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House Passes Modernizing Government Technology Act
The federal government’s woefully old IT systems are apparently something both political parties believe require fixing.
Digital Government
How FITARA Changed the CIO Game
Legislation gave CIOs new visibility into their own agencies.
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Hurd Introduces Modernizing Government Technology Act to House
New IT legislation is a combination of Hurd’s MOVE IT act and the IT Modernization Fund championed by U.S. CIO Tony Scott
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Report: Want Innovation? Hire and Empower CTOs
Chief technology officers should be empowered to deliver new solutions and approaches.
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GSA Official: Federal IT Modernization Will Happen With or Without Legislation
Even if Congress doesn't pass a meaningful law, agencies must respond to a crisis U.S. Chief Information Officer Tony Scott has labeled worse than Y2K.
Cybersecurity
Why the A-130 Update is a Huge Deal for Government
A-130 focuses on three key elements: real-time knowledge of the environment, proactive risk management and shared responsibility.
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OMB Policy Aims to Cut Data Center Spending by 25 Percent
The Data Center Optimization Initiative aims to cut data center costs by 25 percent at the close of fiscal 2018.
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OMB Stresses Security in Info Management Update
This is the first time since 2000 the "Circular A-130: Managing Information as a Strategic Resource" has been updated.
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Lawmakers Introduce Alternative to White House’s $3.1 Billion IT Modernization Fund
The Modernizing Outdated and Vulnerable Equipment and Information Technology Act of 2016, or MOVE IT, directs individual agencies to establish IT working capital funds.
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How to Continue FITARA’s Momentum in the Next Administration
With an administration shift, the people appointed sometimes “don’t even know how to spell ‘information technology,'" one former agency CIO said.
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Tony Scott: IT Modernization Fund or Not, ‘Accountability All the Way’
The initial investment of $3.1 billion could fund as much as $15 billion worth of new applications and infrastructure over the next several years, but only if it’s paid back in full, Tony Scott said.
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Federal CIO: IT Upgrade Fund is ‘Single Biggest Opportunity’ to Make Dent in Legacy IT
Over the next three years, more than $3 billion worth of federal IT investments will reach end-of-life, Tony Scott says.
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Agency CIOs Undercount ‘High-Risk’ IT Projects, GAO Says
CIOs are not adequately assessing risk of major projects, according to the Government Accountability Office.
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What the T in FITARA Really Means
Teamwork makes a whole lot more sense than infighting and mass confusion.
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Congress Flexes Muscle on FITARA
"We are going to stick with this,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., who promised a bipartisan effort to ensure FITARA is carried out successfully.
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Lawmaker: Agencies Don’t Need Billions in New Funding to Upgrade Legacy IT
Agencies should repurpose savings from data center consolidation, says Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s IT operations subcommittee.
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FITARA Scorecard: Fewer Agencies Get Failing Scores on IT Reform
Still, no agency received an A grade.
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Inefficient Federal IT Like Paying 400 IT Specialists to Maintain a Single iPad
“We're paying a lot of money for fixed capacity that we invested in 10, 20 years ago,” U.S. CIO Tony Scott says. “Call it crazy, I think it's time to bring an end to this."
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