Where does the government’s  in-sourcing strategy stand, especially at the end of a year that saw serious proposals to freeze federal pay and even shrink the federal workforce? Well, according to a report on Federal Computer Week, skeptics shouldn’t count in-sourcing out anytime soon. “By all accounts,” according to FCW, “officials remain committed to bringing [...]

The Office of Management and Budget is done prodding, poking and coaxing agencies about moving to cloud-computing platforms. In a broad overhaul of federal IT management announced last week, federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said it’s now time to begin acting. The new “cloud-first strategy” is not an abstract philosophy, the new guidelines indicate. [...]

When federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra laid out the government’s plans for federal IT management reform last week, industry leaders took note. And many have reacted with optimism about the plans, which aim to give federal IT a boost and close the gaps between it and the private sector. The biggest hurdle will likely [...]

It’s certainly no Call of Duty. But, a new casual gaming website from the Defense Acquisition University, which serves the Defense Department’s procurement workforce, will let workers brush up on their skills and, just maybe, have a little fun. Alicia Sanchez, a research scientist who works as DAU’s games czar, sat down with DoDLive Bloggers [...]

Two high-profile New York lawmakers urged President Barack Obama to bolster the State Department’s cybersecurity efforts, saying the recent attacks against private companies who cut off business with whistle-blower site WikiLeaks demonstrate the pressing need for new authorities. According to a report on NY1 television in New York, the proposals by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and [...]

Department of Homeland Security IT projects escaped the budget freezes affecting most federal agencies, which had their budgets capped at 2010 levels in a long-term continuing resolution passed by the House of Representatives last week. When Congress failed to pass appropriations bills earlier this fall because of an ongoing kerfuffle with the military’s “Don’t Ask, [...]

Federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra said government’s role for the future of the Internet is to convene and facilitate technological innovation in partnership with the private sector. At a Brookings Institute forum on Internet policy, Chopra made his far-reaching pronouncements in response to a single, loaded question: What is the role of government for [...]

Data center consolidation is a big part of the federal IT overhaul announced by federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra last week at a White House forum. The Office of Management and Budget has spent the better part of a year identifying the more than 2,000 unwieldy data centers and marking some for consolidation. The [...]

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), one of the co-founders of the House cybersecurity caucus, said he sees a dangerous “lack of interest” in cybersecurity in Congress because many lawmakers simply don’t understand the high-tech aspects of the issues. But, despite legislators’ ignorance or unconcern, the potential for economic disaster from a cyber attack remains a possibility, [...]

Despite the uproar over the recent WikiLeaks disclosures, which included sensitive and, in some cases, embarrassing information, top Defense Department officials say DoD shouldn’t rethink information sharing anytime soon. Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright, who is also the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said information sharing offered the United States a “competitive [...]