Acquisition
Navy NextGen RFI, cyber acquisition and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
People
CIOs: 'A strategic partner, not a coder-in-chief'
Agency heads, acquisition officers and even CIOs don't need to be hard-core techies. FCW's four-part look at the expertise that's really required to make federal IT run.
Modernization
GAO dings IRS, Secret Service techs-up for pope and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Modernization
Cable trouble undercuts FCC's huge cloud move
Hardware problems have kept the agency from finishing its long-planned move to the commercial cloud on schedule.
People
Top feds talk agile
Federal leaders discussed agile's promise and the notion that the government-changing approach could yield positive results far beyond IT – if feds can stomach it.
Modernization
Spectrum sharing is no simple matter
Moving government spectrum to market can be a bureaucratic slog.
Cybersecurity
Where's the new cyber strategy?
A week after the end of the federal "sprint," OMB is working past its own deadline on the Federal Civilian Cybersecurity Strategy.
Digital Government
CFPB's complaint database, FCC's IBM cloud and Graves' promotion
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
FirstNet RFP, Navy CIO and S&T on Facebook
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Gun-testing robot, Open Internet guidance and a health care breach
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
Open Internet controversy could imperil FCC IT modernization
In aiming to curtail any "net neutrality" proposals, appropriators might nick the agency's IT spending.
Digital Government
FCC unveils prototype website redesign
The new FCC site, with enhanced data functionality and a better search engine, is expected to launch by Sept. 30.
Cybersecurity
Citizen broadband, DHS duplication and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
FCC posts open Internet rules, prepares for budget backlash
Net neutrality rules have limited implications for agencies, but the FCC's own funding could suffer as a result.
Modernization
A new take on the cloud divide: 'It's pets and cattle'
Federal agencies live in two tech worlds, but standards and steady innovation are slowly nosing out long-held legacy systems.
Digital Government
'Big data itself is not a strategy'
From the Army to the FCC, agencies are learning how to use analytics as a means to measurable ends.
Modernization
Cloudy with a chance of murky
Federal cloud managers say agencies must think in broad strokes without losing sight of the details and must relinquish tasks but not control.
Modernization
The FCC's one-man tweet storm
FCC CIO David Bray uses Twitter to tell the agency’s story and to be available to stakeholders.
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