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Information and Communications Technology - United States
Articles and resources about trends and issues in the use of ICT by government in the United States.
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- Chief Information Officers - United States
- Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to chief information officers in government in the United States.
- Cyber Security - United States
- Articles and resources about trends and issues in cyber security in the United States.
- Data Centres - United States
- Articles and resources about egovernment trends and initiatives relating to data centres within the United States.
- Disaster Recovery - United States
- Articles and resources about trends and issues in disaster recovery planning and implementation by government in the United States.
- Earned Value Management - United States
- Articles and resources about trends and issues in earned value management in the United States government.
- Email - United States
- Articles and resources about trends and issues in the use of email systems by government in the United States.
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) - United States
- Articles and resources about trends and issues regarding the implementation of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) in government in the United States.
- IT Governance - United States
- Articles and resources about trends and issues in IT governance by government in the United States.
- IT Security - United States
- Articles and resources about trends and issues in information technology security also known as cyber security in the United States.
- Open-Source - United States
- Articles and resources about trends and issues in the use of open-source software by government in the United States.
- Project Management - United States
- Articles and resources about trends and issues in project management by government in the United States.
- Return on Investment - United States
- Articles and resources about trends and issues in the return on investment of information technology by government in the United States.
- RFID - United States
- Articles and resources about the use of RFID technology within government in the United States.
- Shared Services - United States
- Articles and resources about egovernment trends and issues related to shared services in the United States.
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- Hewlett Packard - Government IT Survey Report - Government 2.0
- Government IT Professionals Online Survey Results Final Report September 2010. HP wanted to understand of the use of social media and other communication and collaboration technologies (referred to herein as 'Gov 2.0') by government IT professionals. They surveyed U.S. government IT professionals from local, state and federal levels between September 7 – September 8, 2010. There were 103 completed surveys.
Added: 6 October 2010
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - United States - Archive
- Archived reports and resources about the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States.
Added: 9 February 2006
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- Remarks by Vivek Kundra, US Chief Information Officer, to the Federal CIO Council, September 20, 2010
- Vivek Kundra, the United States Chief Information Officer discusses the actions his office has taken to reduce wasteful spending and our ongoing efforts to reform Federal Gvovernment IT.
Added: 23 September 2010
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- USAspending.gov - IT Dashboard
- The IT Dashboard provides the public with an online window into the details of US Government Federal information technology investments and provides users with the ability to track the progress of investments over time.
Added: 2 July 2009
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- Follow Feds To The Cloud
- by Michael A. Davis. Information Week, April 29, 2013. "It's not often that IT teams charged with new projects and initiatives say, "Let's look at how the feds are doing things." The U.S. government's IT systems are seen as slow, archaic and overly complex -- think the Veterans Affairs Department's huge claims backlog and the sorry state of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which handles only 6% of requests electronically. But thanks to the "Cloud First" and open data sharing initiatives that former federal CIO Vivek Kundra mandated, the government is an innovator when it comes to cloud computing and data security..."
Added: 8 May 2013;
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- Top 2013 Trends for Federal Agencies - in pdf format (325kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Research Into trends affecting federal employees this year. Govdelivery, March 2013. "As part of its ongoing research into public sector communications, digital communications provider GovDelivery surveyed nearly 200 individuals in U.S. federal agencies and departments. Respondents were asked about the most important trends they saw affecting federal government at large and in their specific jobs in 2013. The potential trends included today’s hot topics, such as big data, cloud computing, and cybersecurity: - Big data/open data - Budgets - Citizen/customer service - Cloud Computing - Collaboration - Cybersecurity - Mobile government/BYOD - Technology Respondents were asked to look at these trends through three distinct filters: - Trends taking center stage in 2013 (affecting their agencies and others) - Trends directly affecting their own work - Trends that their organizations were already addressing..."
Added: 29 April 2013;
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- Leveraging technology to do more with less
- Posted by Anna Stroncek for GovDelivery. Reach the Public, April 19th, 2013. "... The need to innovate to solve public sector challenges is quite familiar to Phil Bertolini, CIO for Oakland County, Michigan. While struggling with decreasing revenues and budgets, Bertolini and his team found that citizens were demanding more information than ever before. They quickly realized the need to find an efficient and effective way to meet citizens' needs while simultaneously meeting the county's budget. Realizing that traditional methods would not suffice, Bertolini looked elsewhere, looking to technology as a solution for Oakland County's communications challenge. The transition to digital communications began changing the way Oakland County handled their communications. Oakland County began placing more and more information online, leveraging various social media channels to reach a larger audience much more quickly than before. Citizens now had easy access to the information they needed through a variety of convenient, online channels that provided savings in both time and resources to Oakland County..."
Added: 22 April 2013;
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- The FY14 President’s IT Budget: Innovate. Deliver. Protect
- by Steven VanRoekel, U.S. Chief Information Officer, Office of Management & Budget. CIO.gov blog, April 10th, 2013. "We have all seen first-hand the ability of information technology (IT) to transform our world. The interconnectedness of cloud computing, open data, social collaboration and mobile devices has changed the way we share information, changed the way we use and view technology, and has forever changed Americans’ expectations. To meet these expectations, the Federal government must fundamentally change our approach to buying and using IT. Earlier today, we released the President’s Fiscal Year 2014 (FY14) Budget, which includes $82 billion for IT, a 2.1% increase from FY 2012 and a flat, 0.78% compound annual growth rate since 2009. The FY14 budget will ensure continued progress towards our three priority goals of improving services for the American people, increasing the return on our investment in Federal IT, and advancing our nation’s cybersecurity. We must use information technology to innovate, deliver, and protect..."
Added: 17 April 2013;
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- Innovators Anonymous
- MeriTalk. Underwritten by: NIC, April 1, 2013. "If necessity is the mother of invention, Federal agencies are about to see a baby boom. The dip in Federal discretionary funding isn’t just a problem on graph paper; it has real-life ramifications inside of Federal agencies. How big is that impact? How are agencies reacting? What does this mean for citizens? In December 2012, MeriTalk surveyed 200 Federal managers to determine how deep the cuts were and how that would impact agency programs. We then looked at how agencies were responding to the new challenges – comparing data from respondents focused on innovation with those looking at standard approaches. Sound interesting to you? You might well be a Federal innovator..." [Requires registration]
Added: 10 April 2013;
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- Federal Agencies Feeling the Immediate Demand for Alternative Funding - in pdf format (137kb)
- 62 Percent Report Cuts to Their Programs and 96 Percent See Lower Budgets as Hurting Mission Performance As budgets tighten, agencies increasingly looking toward no - cost funding solutions. Alexandria, Va., MeriTalk, April 1, 2013 – Sixty - two percent of Federal managers report personal experience with tighter budgets and 51 percent have seen the impact in programs that they depend on to complete their agency missions. These budget cuts increasingly put agency missions at risk and as a result agencies are exploring more innovative approaches to funding, according to a new MeriTalk, the government IT network, study sponsored by NIC. The new report, 'Innovators Anonymous', reveals just how deep the budget cuts go and how innovators within agencies are looking for alternative funding solutions..."
Added: 10 April 2013;
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- PortfolioStat 2.0: Driving Better Management and Efficiency in Federal IT
- Posted by Steven VanRoekel. Office of Management and Budget Blog, March 27, 2013. "... In March 2012, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) initiated PortfolioStat. Agencies across the Federal government undertook a data-driven effort to examine their IT portfolios to identify common areas of spending with the goal of decreasing duplication and driving down costs. Through this process, agencies identified more than $2.5 billion in spending reductions that could be achieved from FY 2013 through FY 2015. Today, Acting Director Jeff Zients and I signed a memo commencing this year's PortfolioStat process and outlining improvements from last year..."
Added: 2 April 2013;
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- Federal CIO Calls for Government-Wide 'IT as a Service'
- by Kenneth Corbin. CIO (US), 29 March, 2013. "U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel, along with acting Office of Management and Budget Director Jeffrey Zients, this week announced the launch of PortfolioStat 2.0, an updated version of the Obama administration's government-wide directive for CIOs to take a hard look at their IT operations with the goal of cutting costs and eliminating duplicative or ineffectual programs and systems. The latest effort has been expanded to include the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative, seeking to build on the progress of the initial PortfolioStat launch last March, which officials say is on track to produce around $300 million in IT savings agencies are expected to report by the end of the month..."
Added: 2 April 2013;
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- Has the CIA Opted for Amazon Cloud?
- Government Technology, March 20, 2013. "The CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with Amazon Web Services that's worth up to $600 million over 10 years, according to FCW, which also reported that Amazon will help the agency build a private cloud infrastructure. The new setup will allow the CIA to keep up with emerging technologies in a cost-effective manner -- something that wasn't possible under the CIA's previous venture into the cloud..."
Added: 21 March 2013;
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- Excellence.gov Winners Exemplify Innovation in Government IT
- By Sarah Rich. Government Technology, March 5, 2013. "Innovation in government IT is imperative, as proven by the proliferation of chief innovation officers -- and the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council's (ACT-IAC) annual Excellence.gov awards program. And on Tuesday, March 5, the council announced the five winners of 2013. The awards recognize federal, state and local government programs and projects that 'fuel government efficiency, interagency collaboration, and the delivery of impactful citizen services through innovative technologies.' While typically award recipients go to programs for federal government, more state and local government programs were nominated and named as finalists this year than in years past..."
Added: 6 March 2013;
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- Holistic Approach to Tablet Adoption Is Key for Federal Government
- By Sarah Rich. Government Technology, February 25, 2013. "Federal government agencies continue to see an increase of tablet use among their workforce, and according to Dell executives, agencies should take a more holistic approach when considering tablet adoption. Rob Orlando, a field marketing manager for Dell, said that currently, tablet adoption rates in federal government is somewhat of a slow process, and multiple factors should be considered when agencies decide to utilize tablets for day-to-day operations. Two major considerations, he said, should be security and usability.."
Added: 26 February 2013;
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- Apps.gov R.I.P.: Long Live Cloud Storefronts!
- by Andrea Di Maio. Gartner, December 4, 2012. "With a rather sudden decision the General Services Administration (GSA) decided to discontinue the first cloud storefront deployed by a government organization. Apps.gov was launched by former CIO Vivek Kundra as a way to kickstart the use of cloud computing. Its content was for a long time little else than what could be found on external marketplaces, but gave at least a first point of contact for agencies to learn about cloud offerings. Only later it was enriched with the first Blanket Purchase Agreement for IaaS services and it has been killed at the same time when GSA has completed a second BPA for email as a service..."
Added: 10 December 2012;
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- Feds Pull Plug On 'One Stop' Cloud Portal
- The General Services Administration plans to decommission Uncle Sam's Apps.gov site, which was supposed to make it easy for agencies to acquire software as a service, By John Foley Information Week, November 30, 2012. "The federal government's Apps.gov cloud-services portal, launched three years ago by former federal CIO Vivek Kundra, is being decommissioned. The General Services Administration, which manages Apps.gov, notified cloud service providers of the pending shut down by email on Nov. 29. The plug will be pulled on the site Dec. 1. GSA didn't give a reason for the decision in its email notice..."
Added: 10 December 2012;
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- US public sector embraces Amazon public Cloud
- Posted by Stuart Lauchlan. Public Technology, 11 October 2012. "The shape of things to come? Amazon Web Services has announced that more than 300 US government agencies are now running on its public Cloud offering. AWS GovCloud is a US AWS region designed to allow US government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the Cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements..."
Added: 11 October 2012;
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- GSA stands by cloud migration numbers
- By Matthew Weigelt. Federal Computer Week, October 2, 2012. "The General Services Administration said Oct. 1 its transition from Lotus Notes to the cloud is saving money, despite the questions raised in a recent audit report. 'GSA's cloud migration has saved the agency more than $2 million dollars to date, and we stand by our early estimate to save at least $15 million over five years,' the agency said in a statement..."
Added: 4 October 2012;
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This category last updated: 8 May 2013
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