A feature in today’s Washington Post extols the virtue of government 2.0, an increasingly plugged-in, linked-in and connected federal government. And that technological vision is increasingly powered by a number of cutting-edge
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Performance.gov was to be a cornerstone of the federal government’s transparency and open-government initiatives. Conceived to be a “one-stop shop” for federal performance information, complete with dashboards tracking key agency goals, the
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The Office of Management and Budget has announced it will close down two open-government federal websites because of cuts to the E-Government Fund, Federal News Radio reports. The two sites slated for
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In the wake of Amazon’s high-profile cloud outage — and doomsayers predicting catastrophe for federal cloud-computing efforts — a number of agency chief information and technology officers sat down to discuss cloud
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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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A new report on the government’s efforts to shut down its costly and ungainly federal data centers reveals the government could cash in on the consolidation to the tune of $18 billion.
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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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In a letter to White House Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), who chairs a Senate subcommittee tasked with federal financial management and government information, asked for details about
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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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