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Defense Department Chief Information Officer Teri Takai wants to use multiple approaches to handle mobile device usage in the Pentagon, she told the “Leadership” executive journal. “Leadership” is published quarterly by CGI‘s collaborative government initiative. The Pentagon hosts a highly mobile workforce in a time of mobile device proliferation and …

The Defense Business Board believes Defense Department Chief Information Officer Teri Takai should have more authority over military and Pentagon agency CIOs, according to Federal Times. The board, consisting of private sector executives, recommended Takai have more authority to enforce policies for data center consolidation and cloud computing, according to the …

Congress has thrown a wrinkle into the federal government’s planned-consolidation of federal data centers by putting the Pentagon‘s own consolidation plans on hold. In November, the Defense Department said in a report that the Defense Information Systems Agency, which operates 14 data centers in the cloud, was its first choice …

Agencies are refocusing their efforts and better deciding where to invest information technology dollars. Some, like the Department of Veterans Affairs, can already claim a success story in their strategy, while others, like the Defense Department, are still trying to lay out the plan. VA is already a work in …

Step one for the Defense Department in the wake of the WikiLeaks disclosures, which saw sensitive defense intelligence splashed across newspapers worldwide, was a top-down review of the security chain and an identification of its weakest links. That was the message the department’s new Chief Information Officer Teri Takai took …

As 2010 comes to a close, many in the government-contracting community look back on a year full of changes with mixed emotions. The year began with controversial federal proposals, such as insourcing and the Defense Department’s efficiency initiatives. But, it ended more optimistically, with DoD cuts to service contractors reportedly …

The Defense Department announced a new pick for chief information officer to lead DoD in a new direction following months of IT reorganization. Teri Takai, who previously served as the CIO of California, was originally nominated for her post in March. However, in September, her nomination was withdrawn because of …