Modernization
Interior takes records management to the cloud
New system promises to cut costs, deliver 'real business intelligence.'
Digital Government
USDA gets FedRAMP nod
The department joins several private-sector providers on the list of GSA-approved cloud offerings.
Acquisition
Senate committee wants answers on energy saving delays
Contracts based on energy savings could aid the optimization of data centers, but the OMB put a hold on the first such effort was to begin, raising senator's concerns.
People
Cureton's successor picked at NASA
Larry Sweet, NASA's new CIO, takes office as the agency is under IG pressure to improve its IT management.
People
New challenges face the new Presidential Innovation Fellows
A new group of private-sector leading lights has been assembled to try to outdo last year's class.
Cybersecurity
Snowden pardon petition reaches critical mass
Enough people have signed a 'We the People' petition demanding a pardon for the NSA leaker to elicit a White House responds.
People
Julie Boughn: Parsing the IT budget puzzle
Few IT budgets are larger — or more important — than the one Julie Boughn helps oversee at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Modernization
Energy-saving data center contract languishes under OMB hold
OMB put the brakes on a contract between the Energy Department and Lockheed Martin in March and has yet to explain its reasons, according to the affected parties.
Digital Government
Can big data really save billions?
A reader questions the dollar figures in a recent article about big data's potential benefits.
Cybersecurity
What Snowden's thumb-drive stash of NSA secrets means for feds
No matter how much security technology an agency has, the human factor is hard to predict.
People
Stacie Boyd: Bringing business rigor to NSF's IT
Stacie Boyd, branch chief for security, architecture, policy and plans at the NSF's Office of Information and Resource Management's Division of Information Systems, has 'risen at every job she's done,' says Dan Chenok.
People
EPA CIO heads for private sector
Malcolm Jackson, credited with leading EPA's move to to cloud-based email and centralized IT hardware procurement, is leaving government.
Digital Government
Can big data save the government $500 billion?
Big data has the potential to produce a smarter, more efficient government, survey suggests.
Digital Government
Who needs an Internet-connected fridge?
It's true that more and more devices can be connected to the Internet, but is there really a point? Frank Konkel has some thoughts.
Cybersecurity
Intelligence community seeks input on geospatial model change
The neeed for better, faster aviation tools calls for an all-new mapping process.
Cybersecurity
Inside the IBM/Amazon protest
GAO's ruling in the protest of the CIA cloud services contract sheds light on how the agency conducted the procurement.
Modernization
Dell launches cloud solution for feds
Hardware stalwart joins Amazon, CGI and others in federal cloud market.
Digital Government
USPS goes all-in on agile development
Three years after the first pilot, the Postal Service has delivered more than 50 projects using agile methodologies.
Cybersecurity
NSA shows how big 'big data' can be
Experts say the massive scale of metadata that the NSA is collecting represents a daunting challenge in finding useful information within it.
Digital Government