It’s a common expression when a new boss takes: “She has her work cut out for her.” Often, it’s merely a rhetorical flourish. However, in the case of recently appointed Army Chief Information Officer/G-6 Lt. Gen. Susan  Lawrence, it’s likely an apt expression. “We’ve got to change culture, solutions and paradigm,” she said last week [...]

Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra told a House panel last week the Office of Management and Budget wants to expand the accountability reviews for IT projects known as TechStats. But to do that, the programs need some cash. All told, Kundra said, the TechStat expansion would require about $60 million in congressional appropriations, according [...]

The General Services Administration’s Mary Davie has some real talk about cloud computing. On her GSA blog, Davie, the assistant commissioner in GSA’s Office of Integrated Technology Services takes on some of the biggest cloud-computing myths. GSA became a cloud pioneer in December when it became the first federal agency to enter the brave new [...]

ExecutiveGov’s round-up of news you need to read to stay up to speed on federal policy impacting the government-contracting community. Redefining Small Business? The Washington Post reports the Small Business Administration is working to redefine what will qualify as a small business for contracting purposes. The proposed change, which generally increases the maximum value of [...]

Despite being mired in mud fights with Congress over net neutrality, the Federal Communications Commission main point of focus may well be its national broadband plan. A National Journal report evaluating the plan’s goals against what the agency has implemented after about a year finds room for both those who tout success as well as [...]

The onslaught of cyber attacks against federal networks increased by 40 percent last year, according to an annual White House cybersecurity report. There were 41,776 attacks against agencies in the last fiscal year up from the 30,000 reported the previous year, according to an Office of Management and Budget annual report. The report is part [...]

Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra took his message of federal IT reform to a tough crowd last week: a house appropriations subcommittee. Kundra’s testimony was preceded first by an unfavorable Government Accountability Office report released last week, which found that the IT Dashboard, an online tool to track IT investments, is full of inaccurate [...]

ExecutiveGov’s round-up of news you need to read to stay up to speed on federal policy impacting the government-contracting community. Operation Odyssey Dawn Doubts? In the wake of U.S. military action against Libya in Operation Odyssey Dawn, DoDBuzz reports tension on Capitol Hill over the air strikes’ goals. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [...]

The Defense Department and the White House are recalibrating their public stances on in-sourcing plans. Office of Federal Procurement Policy Administrator Dan Gordon said this week at an Integrated Resources Management Conference that confusion and misconceptions have long plagued the administration’s plans to bring current private-sector positions in house. “There have been a lot of [...]

The federal government’s sweeping 25-point reform of federal IT management appears to be paying dividends. That was the message at panel discussion of chief information officers at the General Services Administration’s Interagency Resources Management Conference this week. At the meeting, federal CIO Vivek Kundra, a high-profile administration champion of the reform, said the Office of [...]