President Obama’s budget – his election-year plan on how he would spend federal dollars in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 – calls for the strengthening of government cybersecurity while reducing overall information technology spending by more than a half-billion dollars....
Even by federal internal measures, information sharing remains a challenge, said Karen Evans, who occupied the position of federal chief information officer during most of the George W. Bush administration, while speaking Jan. 26 during a Washington, D.C. conference....
Federal officials announced Dec. 8 the launch of FedRamp, an effort for low- and moderate- risk cloud services to gain common cybersecurity certification under the Federal Information Security Management Act. In a call with reporters, Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel said FedRamp ...
With nearly three months on the job, federal chief information officer Steven VanRoekel is putting a new shine on some long-standing technology priorities. VanRoekel gave his first major policy speech on Tuesday night, since taking over for Vivek Kundra in August, signaling how he plans to move the ...
Federal agencies that fail to give website visitors the option to log on with outside credentials, such as their Gmail usernames and passwords, may lose funding, White House officials told Nextgov. Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel last week released along-awaited memorandum requi...
The U.S. government’s program to improve federal information technology not only involves different types of electronic tools, such as cloud computing — it also involves improving the talent pool of federal IT personnel. A new initiative designed to attract the best and brightest talent ...
via nextgov The federal transition to cloud computing is an overlooked source of savings as the government battles over trillions of dollars in spending reductions, the leader of a Senate oversight subcommittee said this week. A visibly weary Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., was addressing a conference Wedn...
via gov info security Deputy Secretary William Lynn III, the Defense Department‘s point man on cybersecurity, says he will leave his job as the No. 2 DoD executive when a replacement is in place. Lynn helped create DoD’s strategy to protect the military’s and nation’s digital...