Vivek Kundra’s last day as federal chief information officer was Friday. He will serve a joint fellowship this fall at Harvard University. Kundra posted a 12-page paper on Harvard’s website Monday, covering
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Legacy n. (leg-uh-see) — anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor The surprising news last week that Vivek Kundra, the nation’s first federal chief information officer,
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The nation’s first chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, wasn’t the only White House geek (see this interview), but as he prepares to retire at the end of the end of the summer,
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Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra will leave the White House in August for a post at Harvard University, Politico reports, citing unnamed sources. Politico’s Kim Hart broke the story, which is
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Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra’s plan to shutter some 800 data centers over the next three years — 137 of them by the end of this year, alone — was proof
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At least 36 federal data centers in Washington, D.C., area will be shuttered under a plan by federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, which includes a total of 137 such closures nationwide,
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Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra has coined an apt metaphor to describe the importance of agency IT investments: “digital oil.” As Federal News Radio reports, Kundra was on hand at the
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Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra told a Senate subcommittee yesterday that of the 800 federal data centers the government wants to close by 2015, 100 of them could be shuttered by
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One of the philosophical cornerstones of the open-government websites championed by federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra was to promote transparency in government. For example, the Office of Management and Budget launched
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Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra told a House panel last week the Office of Management and Budget wants to expand the accountability reviews for IT projects known as TechStats. But to
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