The feds are making steady progress on a 25-point plan to reform IT introduced a year ago Friday, having already delivered on 14 goals of the plan and realizing nearly $1 billion in savings from one of its key initiatives, U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel said Thursday. VanRoekel held a press conference Th...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — MeriTalk (www.meritalk.com), the government IT network, today announced the results of the “Over to You, Mr. VanRoekel… A Federal IT Referendum on Change Study,” which provides insight on the Federal IT community’s take on Vivek Kundra’s leadership, ...
via InformationWeek Government Having jump-started Uncle Sam’s move into cloud computing, Vivek Kundra is now aiming more broadly, pitching the idea of a “global cloud-first policy” and agreeing to advise the European Union on its cloud strategy. They’re impressive next steps...
via Government Computer News Agency data center consolidation plans, slated for publication online in October, will yield the most comprehensive information to date about expected cost savings associated with the projects, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra told attendees at an event on Capitol Hill July 27. ...
via Tech News World Between the repeated attacks on the United States government’s IT infrastructure by foreign hackers and incursions by LulzSec, a hacker community whose members wandered in and out of government cybersystems before publicly disbanding this week, it’s not difficult to c...
via NationalJournal Hours after federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra surprised the Washington technology community with his plans to leave government service, Justice Department CIO Vance Hitch told colleagues he would retire at the end of July. In an e-mail on Thursday evening to CIO offi...
via WBJ FedBiz Daily Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra will leave his post later this summer for a fellowship at Harvard University, the White House announced Wednesday. Kundra, who previously served as chief technology officer for the District of Columbia before joining the Obama admin...
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...