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Duplicate IT Systems Cost HHS Millions

Ashley Gold | FierceHealthIT | September 13, 2013

An auditor found more than $300 million in duplicative IT systems at three different government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services--which has six duplicative systems costing $256 million alone--according to a new Government Accountability Office report. Read More »

Federal Agencies Embracing Use Of Open Source Software Code

Liz Gormisky | Defense Daily | December 3, 2013

Federal agencies that previously relied on expensive, built-to-order software are now following a growing trend to embrace open source code. Read More »

Federal CIO On Adopting Emerging Technologies

Eric Chabrow | GovInfoSecurity.com | February 24, 2013

U.S. Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel says he likes to make this point in his speeches: "The securest data center is the one that's unplugged from the network, but that's not going to get you the service that you need." Read More »

Federal IT Budget To Increase In 2014

Patience Wait | InformationWeek | April 11, 2013

Federal IT spending will increase nearly 2%, to $82 billion, in the fiscal 2014 budget submitted by the White House on Wednesday. It's the first significant increase in federal IT spending in four years. Read More »

Federal Spending Bill Expands Research Funding With Open Access Mandate, Restores IMLS Funding

Ian Chant | Library Journal | January 23, 2014

The omnibus spending bill signed into law by President Obama on January 17 has plenty of wrinkles and details, but one of them is a change that expands the number of federal agencies operating under a mandate to make research they fund available to the public after one year. Read More »

Feds: You Don't Need Permission To Innovate

Brittany Ballenstedt | Nextgov | October 22, 2013

Many front-line federal workers have long expressed their frustrations about working in an agency or office culture that stifles innovation. But government is now entering a new era where feds no longer have to file a memo to their boss with a new idea, only to receive the dreaded response, “But we’ve always done it this way.” Read More »

From Crowdfunding To Open Access, Startups Are Experimenting With Academic Research

Danny Crichton | TechCrunch | March 3, 2014

These days may well be the next golden age for universities, and startups are leading the way. For institutions that can feel much like their counterparts from a thousand years ago, universities have witnessed breathtaking change in just a handful of years. Read More »

Grand Opening: Federal Cloud Innovation Center

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | October 23, 2013

As more state and federal government agencies try to catch up with the private sector in using cloud-based IT, IBM is giving them a lift. Read More »

GSA Envisions 18F Will Be The New Hub Of Digital Innovation

Jason Miller | Federal News Radio | March 19, 2014

The Presidential Innovations Fellows have a new home, and the General Services Administration is building on federal Chief Technology Officer Todd Park's vision for the government to act as a lean start-up.

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How the Cloud Can Bring Expenditure Agility to Agency Budgets

Kate Spies | GovernmentHealthIT | July 3, 2012

A clear presidential push becomes apparent reading the FY2013 budget. The White House is calling for Federal agencies, health departments among those, to shift IT budgets from a capital expenditure basis to one built on operational spending. In their words, the generation of a “more agile, operational focus” – and the cloud computing model is one way of embracing that expenditure agility, IT-wise. Read More »

In Third Year, Materials Genome Initiative Pushes Forward

Colby Hochmuth | FedScoop | June 24, 2013

Federal government leaders, industry leaders and academia agreed two years ago to double the pace of technological development. Today, they renewed that commitment. Read More »

Innovation At VA: Collaboration, Data Aid Veteran Benefits Project

Judi Hasson | AOL Government | November 5, 2012

A collaborative effort to combine data previously scattered across multiple federal agencies has led to a single portal where veterans can access key benefits. Read More »

Is the Technology Gap the Reason Why Medical Errors are the 3rd Leading Cause of Death in the US?

Hardly a day goes by without some new revelation of an information technology (IT) mess in the United States that seems like an endless round of the old radio show joke contest, “Can You Top This” except that increasingly the joke is on us. From nuclear weapons updated with floppy disks, to critical financial systems in the Department of the Treasury that run on assembler language code (a computer language initially used in the 1950s and typically tied to the hardware for which it was developed), to medical systems that cannot exchange patient records leading to a large number of needless deaths from medical errors.

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IT Projects May Not Be Getting Enough Oversight

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | November 16, 2012

The White House should do a better job of tracking whether agencies’ major technology projects are at risk of going off the rails and agencies should perform more oversight on their operations and maintenance spending, according to two recent watchdog reports. Read More »

IT Spending Up 2.1 Percent In President's Budget

Adam Mazmanian | FCW | April 10, 2013

The Obama administration budget for fiscal year 2014 includes a modest increase in overall IT spending. Total outlays are just under $82 billion, with $42.3 billion in civilian-agency IT spending, and $39.5 going to defense IT. Read More »