People
Julie Boughn: Parsing the IT budget puzzle
Few IT budgets are larger — or more important — than the one Julie Boughn helps oversee at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Modernization
Energy-saving data center contract languishes under OMB hold
OMB put the brakes on a contract between the Energy Department and Lockheed Martin in March and has yet to explain its reasons, according to the affected parties.
Digital Government
Can big data really save billions?
A reader questions the dollar figures in a recent article about big data's potential benefits.
Cybersecurity
What Snowden's thumb-drive stash of NSA secrets means for feds
No matter how much security technology an agency has, the human factor is hard to predict.
People
Stacie Boyd: Bringing business rigor to NSF's IT
Stacie Boyd, branch chief for security, architecture, policy and plans at the NSF's Office of Information and Resource Management's Division of Information Systems, has 'risen at every job she's done,' says Dan Chenok.
People
EPA CIO heads for private sector
Malcolm Jackson, credited with leading EPA's move to to cloud-based email and centralized IT hardware procurement, is leaving government.
Digital Government
Can big data save the government $500 billion?
Big data has the potential to produce a smarter, more efficient government, survey suggests.
Digital Government
Who needs an Internet-connected fridge?
It's true that more and more devices can be connected to the Internet, but is there really a point? Frank Konkel has some thoughts.
Cybersecurity
Intelligence community seeks input on geospatial model change
The neeed for better, faster aviation tools calls for an all-new mapping process.
Cybersecurity
Inside the IBM/Amazon protest
GAO's ruling in the protest of the CIA cloud services contract sheds light on how the agency conducted the procurement.
Modernization
Dell launches cloud solution for feds
Hardware stalwart joins Amazon, CGI and others in federal cloud market.
Digital Government
USPS goes all-in on agile development
Three years after the first pilot, the Postal Service has delivered more than 50 projects using agile methodologies.
Cybersecurity
NSA shows how big 'big data' can be
Experts say the massive scale of metadata that the NSA is collecting represents a daunting challenge in finding useful information within it.
Digital Government
Intel showcases big data efforts
Technology firm's initiatives hint at efficiency gains available to agencies.
People
Petitioners rally around Guardian source
Edward Snowden has not yet been charged with a crime, but already a petition has hit the White House's 'We The People' site demanding a full pardon.
Digital Government
Weather satellite recovers for storm season
A geostationary satellite that had been shut down after getting hit by a meteor is back in action.
Acquisition
A big win for Big Blue
GAO has upheld IBM's protest of the cloud-services contract that the CIA had awarded to Amazon.
Modernization
More firms get FedRAMP nod
Two major players in federal contracting join other providers in the ranks of the cloud-approved.
Modernization
OPM: Telework plans should be part of disaster prep
Mobile Work Exchange advises: The time to discover your plans are inadequate is before you need them to work.
Modernization
OMB charts a new course in data center program
With the consolidation initiative now part of PortfolioStat, officials are rethinking its objectives.
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