Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has started new accountability sessions called TechStat meetings, to be held with department officials and will be conducted in order to assess their IT projects. The goal of
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In the most recent movement towards implementation of the Open Government Directive, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra and Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra unveiled the launch of Open Government Dashboard, a web page designed
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The U.S. Office of Personnel Management has launched a new Open Government site, meeting President Obama’s December 8th, 2009 requirement that federal agencies establish a site within 60 days and publish their
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The U.S Air Force has contracted out IBM to create a cloud-computing platform. The cloud platform will be useful in helping to secure military and national security information and data. The contract
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President Obama will be making a series of steps as part of his “comprehensive strategy to enhance American energy independence while building a foundation for a new clean energy economy, and its
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It may not be Harvard, but the Cincinnati State Technical and Community College is branching out to offer a degree in Smart Grid studies. While the Smart Grid concept has had some
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Are you a worker in the federal government? Then Federal CIO Vivek Kundra needs your help. Kundra took to his blog to underscore the importance of making federal data open to the
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The Department of Veterans Affairs recently introduced a test website. This website details the status of various IT projects from the federal IT Dashboard website. According to Roger Baker, the VA CIO,
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Back in October 2009, President Obama signed an order that established new targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions for agencies. To learn more about the order in detail, read our
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In a effort to bolster progress being made in developing wide-reaching government Electronic Health Records (EMR)s, President Barack Obama included funding for the jeopardized initiative. According to Reuters: “His plan calls for
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