Ideas

Taking Responsibility for IT Duplication

Modernization

DHS to bundle virtual desktop, mobile services

The new business model is a 'game changer' that will drive down costs, CIO Roger Spires says.

Modernization

VA plans government's largest tablet computer deployment

Up to 100,000 devices will be managed through a vendor-operated cloud computing center.

Modernization

Design firm recommends revamping many government mobile apps

Software developers too often lack a clear vision of apps' primary users.

Modernization

Cloud, telework and security to top IT budgets in 2012

Analysts predict most new technology contracts will be associated with ongoing, multiyear programs.

Ideas

GAO Strikes Down Part of Cloud Email RFQ

Ideas

My Experience Tweeting @ the White House

Digital Government

Effort to require online governmentwide spending reports advances on the Hill

The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act would apply stimulus fund reporting practices to all federal programs.

Modernization

Administration increases data center consolidation savings estimate to $5 billion

New CIO Steven VanRoekel expands the definition of a data center to include the government's full IT infrastructure.

Ideas

More than 100 Dot-Govs Cut or Consolidated