Staff knowledge, solid communication and iterative testing are more important to successful IT acquisition than receiving sufficient funding, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office. While information technology projects across government differ in budget and purpose, a Nov. 2...
A government watchdog on Monday identified nine best practices that help information technology projects stay on budget and on time, including sufficient upfront funding, strong communication between the contractors building the system and the federal employees who will operate it, and genuine invol...
via Federal Times The State Department wanted to make tens of thousands of foreign affairs-related historical documents, publications and data sets more accessible to the public, and 50 databases more available to its employees worldwide. It did so on the cloud, a move intended to reduce the need fo...
via Nextgov Federal officials on Wednesday released a list of 137 government data centers slated to close by the end of the year.The information they hold will either be consolidated into other data centers or moved to rented space in a public or private cloud. Thirty-nine of those data centers alre...