New governmentwide management reforms aim to reduce federal IT spending, beef up the government’s IT expertise and better promote adoption of more innovative technologies. In his first policy address since becoming the federal chief information officer, Steven VanRoekel said IT managers must share existing IT systems and contracts to reduce duplication. “It is very likely [...]
GAO: Federal IT Spending Reports Not Accurate
October 28, 2011 By
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) doesn’t have an accurate count of how much money federal agencies are spending on IT, and has been misrepresenting the government’s technology investments, according to a federal watchdog agency. The OMB’s IT Dashboard reported in July 2011 that 26 federal agencies plan to spend nearly $79 billion on [...]
Google Apps Selected For Energy Dept. Lab
October 25, 2011 By
The Department of Energy (DOE) is the latest agency to leverage cloud computing for email and collaboration, with plans to migrate 5,000 users at its Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to Google Apps for Government. The DOE awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to Unisys to build a secure, cloud-based environment it will manage for the project, according [...]
DIA, General Dynamics to partner on information assurance
October 19, 2011 By
The Defense Intelligence Agency has awarded an $86 million task order to General Dynamics IT to furnish information assurance and cybersecurity services to the DIA’s installations in the United States and abroad,company officials said Oct. 14. Under the contract, General Dynamics IT will ensure the security, integrity and confidentiality of the DIA’s network defenses and [...]
Geospatial Intel Agency Releases Declassified Budget Docs
October 18, 2011 By
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) hired 600 to 700 new employees each year between 2005 and 2008, newly released budget documents indicate. Still, “the coming wave of retirement… presents significant risks that the program will lose valuable institutional knowledge and critical skills and capability.” These observations were presented in NGA’s annual budget justification materials for fiscal years 2009, 2010 and 2011 (pdf). [...]
NIST Funds Testing Tools For Smart Systems
October 12, 2011 By
The federal technology standards body is working to develop open standards-based testing, measurement, and development tools that can ensure the reliability of intelligent control systems. The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded the University of Maryland at College Park (UMD) $1 million over three years to work together with NIST as it develops standards [...]
Congress Snips Away at E-Gov Development Funding
October 5, 2011 By
At the Office of E-Government and Information Technology, for example, funding was cut from $34 million in 2010 to just $8 million in 2011. As lawmakers fiddled with the appropriations for 2012, it was unclear just what the budget for the E-Gov office will be in 2012 — only that it will be far less than [...]
HHS Offers $13.2 Million For Behavioral Health IT
October 1, 2011 By
The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has announced that it will provide up to $13.2 million in new grants to support the adoption of health IT in organizations serving people with mental and substance use disorders, with the goal of improving the quality of care. SAMHSA, a public health agency within [...]
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