The Obama administration’s “cloud-first” strategy helps federal agencies leverage data sharing, video conferencing and collaboration tools while saving money, research analyst Judith Lamont writes in a KMWorld Magazine article published Monday. According
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The Office of Management and Budget is working to reduce overlapping information technology government contracting services, Federal Chief Information Officer Steven Van Roekel wrote in a April 30 White House blog post.
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The winter issue of GovConExec Magazine, published by ExecutiveGov’s parent company Executive Mosaic, has made its annual selection of 15 officials across the public and private sectors who will shape the government
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The Defense Department is aggressively working to consolidate and simplify its information technology networks, according to a department strategy report. The Pentagon says the report lays the foundation for how it will
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A quarter of the 800 data centers planned for closure by 2015 will come from the Army, but the service’s chief information officer said the closures are not about the centers themselves,
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U.S. Technology Chief Steven Van Roekel recently spoke at an event in technology hub Palo Alto, Calif. and told the audience that the federal government should cut waste and focus on innovation.
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The federal government will slightly reduce its spending on information technology through 2017, according to a forecast from the Washington-based technology trade association TechAmerica. Technology spending will remain flat at $43 billion
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Check that one off the list. The federal government will soon initiate the Technology Fellows Program, fulfilling one of former federal chief information officer Vivek Kundra’s 25 objectives in his December 2010
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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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Former Microsoft executive Steven VanRoekel is the next federal chief information officer, the New York Times reports. VanRoekel left Microsoft in 2009 to become managing director at the Federal Communications Commission and
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