Lt. Col. James Bowen has reveiled the Air Force’s desire to further assert itself helping to shape the Joint Information Environment, the Pentagon’s department-wide network interoperability plan, Federal News Radio reported Thursday.
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Terry Halvorsen, Navy chief information officer, spoke at a recent event in Washington, D.C., about the department’s plans to manage information technology costs by moving to cloud computing and consolidating data centers, InformationWeek
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A Government Accountability Office report says federal agencies have largely not developed comprehensive plans to consolidate information technology systems under the PortfolioStat initiative, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Joseph Marks writes GAO identified 200
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Many agencies are not using standard cost model to improve the inventory and consolidation of data centers, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report. In its July 19 report, GAO said
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While the federal government saved nearly $5.5 billion annually using cloud computing, federal information technology managers believe that number could have reached $12 billion, CRN reports. In surveying 108 IT managers and
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The Defense Business Board believes Defense Department Chief Information Officer Teri Takai should have more authority over military and Pentagon agency CIOs, according to Federal Times. The board, consisting of private sector executives,
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Congress has thrown a wrinkle into the federal government’s planned-consolidation of federal data centers by putting the Pentagon‘s own consolidation plans on hold. In November, the Defense Department said in a report
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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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The federal government has recently embarked on a round of data center closures, an initiative the White House said will save agencies a combined $630 million by 2015. The Office of Management
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The federal government plans to shutter more than 40 percent of its data centers over the next four years, with 195 centers closing at the end of 2011, the NY Times reports.
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