Agencies reported plans to eliminate or merge 30 percent of their some 1,000 plus domains in the State of the Federal Web report, produced by the .gov Reform Task Force. The report attempts to
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Six months into the federal IT reform process, the race — marathon is probably a more apt metaphor — has only begun. But it’s crucial agencies continue to make progress toward the
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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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The Office of Personnel and Management has formally added and defined a new IT position for the federal workforce: the IT program manager title, according to a May 31 OPM memo. The
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Successfully implementing changes within the Commerce Department according to the federal government’s ambitious IT reform act, requires not just a change in strategy, agency Chief Information Officer Simon Szykman said, but also
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For Department of Veterans Affairs Chief Information Officer Roger Baker, the word “reform,†is nothing new. Writing in a blog post on CIO.gov to mark six months since the federal government launched
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Far from imposing another layer of bureaucratic IT chaos onto the Department of Homeland Security, the agency’s chief information officer says the ambitious 25-point federal IT reform plan has actually helped further
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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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