Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: General Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency and Commander of US Cyber Command, will talk about “Shared Values, Shared Responsibilities” between the Intelligence Community and hackers at DEFCON 20...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: An anonymous official confirmed that United States and Israel jointly developed the Flame spying malware. More here. The Veterans Affairs Department would need a staff of 4,000 to scan and digitize its backlogged paper rec...
Army officials met Dec. 13 for the first in a series of meetings on its strategy to more aggressively consolidate data centers. Not only does the Army claim 200, or 25 percent, of the 800 federal data centers the Office of Management and Budget identified as eligible for consolidation by fiscal 2015...
Agencies have several new deadlines to meet, including one by Friday to tell the Office of Management Budget how much money they saved through data center consolidation....
The government is moving forward with a massive data center consolidation initiative that will slash the number of federal data centers by 40% from more than 2,000 to about 1,200 by 2015, according to Lisa Schlosser, deputy administrator of the Office of Management and Budget’s office of e-gov...
The government’s effort to consolidate data centers will yield far less in savings than originally projected, agencies say. Instead of saving $3 billion by eliminating more than 800 data centers by 2015, as the Office of Management and Budget has projected, agencies now expect savings of only ...
Amid ongoing political debate over federal spending, it’s difficult to know if the United States is entering a period of government austerity or one of additional spending aimed at boosting the economy. Either way, one thing is clear: The only way the federal government can deliver improved se...