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Articles and resources about trends and issues in the use of ICT by government in the United States.
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- 10 trends shaping the federal IT future
- By Camille Tuutti. Federal Computer Week, June 26, 2012. "... Deloitte Consulting's newly released report, "Technology Trends 2012: A Federal Perspective," outlines the top trends influencing IT and its potential to change the ways in which agencies accomplish their missions. Specifically, it highlights 10 technology trends will play a major role in how federal agencies operate over the next 18 to 36 months..."
Added: 28 June 2012;
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- 10 Developments Show Government Cloud Maturing
- Emerging trends such as FedRAMP, community clouds, and single-source contracts point to the start of phase two for cloud computing in federal government, by John Foley. Information Week, June 25, 2012. "Federal agencies are moving beyond their phase one cloud computing initiatives. They're testing and revising different cloud models, types of contracts, and security approaches, among other standard practices. The Office of Management and Budget lit a fire under federal agencies and departments 18 months ago with its "cloud first" policy. With fed organizations already forced to close hundreds of data centers under the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative, they had little choice..."
Added: 27 June 2012;
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- Small GSA office at forefront of government's cloud adoption
- By Nicole Blake Johnson. Federal Times, June 22, 2012. "When it comes to moving the government's computer operations to the cloud, the heavy lifting falls to the General Services Administration's Katie Lewin and her staff of 14 contractor and federal employees. Her office, tucked away in GSA's Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, is tasked with identifying and addressing obstacles to governmentwide cloud adoption..."
Added: 27 June 2012;
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- Defining the Future of Government IT
- by Mary Davie. Great Government through Technology - GSA, Monday, June 18, 2012. "Last week, GSA had the pleasure of hosting a roundtable in Washington, DC that brought together federal CIOs, CTOs, and thought leaders in technology from the public and private sectors. Together, they discussed the future of government IT, and how agencies should respond to shrinking budgets and increased expectations for workplace efficiency..."
Added: 19 June 2012;
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- Greater Accountability and Faster Delivery Through Modular Contracting
- Posted by Joe Jordan, Steven VanRoekel. Office of Management and Budget Blog, June 14, 2012. "Last week, we highlighted a number of ways in which reform of Federal Information Technology Management is giving taxpayers more for their IT investments and improving the overall function and efficiency of government. Today, we mark yet another milestone in our march to improved fiscal and contractor accountability as we roll out Contracting Guidance to Support Modular IT Development... Today, we are releasing a new document, Contracting Guidance to Support Modular IT Development, which encourages agencies to shift away from the bloated, multi-year projects so common in the past to a more nimble approach..."
Added: 18 June 2012;
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- Contracting Guidance to Support Modular Development - in pdf format (988kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Office of Management and Budget, June 14, 2012. "The purpose of this guidance is to provide agencies with contracting guidance to support modular development, as required by Information Technology (IT) Reform Action 15: Issue Contracting Guidance and Templates to Support Modular Development, 25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management..."
Added: 18 June 2012;
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- OMB promotes agile IT development in new guidance
- By Camille Tuutti. Federal Computer Week, June 14, 2012. "Lengthy, drawn-out federal IT projects could soon be rare. The Office of Management and Budget has unveiled new framework that will encourage agencies to abandon multiyear IT development methods for a more agile approach..."
Added: 18 June 2012;
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- IT Reform: GSA Powers Up the Federal Digital Strategy
- by Casey Coleman. CIO.gov, June 4, 2012. "As the federal government's savings and purchasing expert, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has a record of delivering smart, synchronized IT solutions to federal agencies and providing significant savings to the American taxpayer. One important way in which GSA drives those savings is by helping to lead governmentwide IT reform. GSA's record of leadership is clear: from strategically applying the TechStat process to demonstrating the value of the Administration's cloud-first policy, GSA has partnered across the government to deliver on the ambitious goals of a modern and cost-efficient Federal digital strategy..."
Added: 13 June 2012;
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- GSA Launches Effort to Transition Federal Government to Cloud Computing
- PR Newswire, WASHINGTON, June 6, 2012. "New security program provides streamlined path for agencies moving to the cloud, achieves cost-savings, efficiency and innovation... Today, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced an important benchmark that will pave the way for agencies across the federal government to accelerate adoption of cloud computing. Cloud computing saves the federal government money and provides flexible platforms that enable increased efficiency, agility, and innovation. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, known as FedRAMP, will standardize security assessments of cloud products and services across the government to avoid duplication and to deliver significant savings. Today, the program will begin accepting security certification applications from private sector companies that provide cloud solutions..."
Added: 8 June 2012;
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- Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations - in pdf format (1512kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Special Publication 800-146. May 2012. "Cloud computing allows computer users to conveniently rent access to fully featured applications, to software development and deployment environments, and to computing infrastructure assets such as network-accessible data storage and processing. This document reprises the NIST-established definition of cloud computing, describes cloud computing benefits and open issues, presents an overview of major classes of cloud technology, and provides guidelines and recommendations on how organizations should consider the relative opportunities and risks of cloud computing. Cloud computing has been the subject of a great deal of commentary. Attempts to describe cloud computing in general terms, however, have been problematic because cloud computing is not a single kind of system, but instead spans a spectrum of underlying technologies, configuration possibilities, service models, and deployment models. This document describes cloud systems and discusses their strengths and weaknesses..."
Added: 31 May 2012;
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- Microsoft launches Office 365 for Government in a segregated cloud
- By Joseph Marks. NextGov, May 30, 2012. "Microsoft now is offering its Office 365 suite of word processing and collaboration products in a government-only cloud, the company announced in a blog post Wednesday..."
Added: 31 May 2012;
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- OMB exaggerated 25-point plan performance, GAO says
- By Joseph Marks. NextGov, May 24, 2012. "The Office of Management and Budget has fully completed only three of the 10 pillars of its information technology reform plan, despite having declared in December that it had closed out seven, a government watchdog told a Senate panel Thursday. The Government Accountability Office picked the 10 disputed agenda items, including consolidating federal data centers and shifting to a cloud-first policy for government computer storage, from OMB’s 2010 25-Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal IT Management..."
Added: 28 May 2012;
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- Progress Made; More Needs to Be Done to Complete Actions and Measure Results - GAO-12-745T
- Government Accountability Office, May 24, 2012. "As discussed in our report, OMB and key federal agencies have made progress on selected action items identified in the IT Reform Plan, but there are several areas where more remains to be done. Of the 10 key action items we reviewed, 3 were completed and the other 7 were partially completed by December 2011. The action items that are behind schedule share a common reason for the delays: the complexity of the initiatives. In all seven of the cases, OMB and the federal agencies are still working on the initiatives. However, OMB and federal agencies have established time frames for completing only two of these initiatives..."
Added: 28 May 2012;
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- Federal Cloud Adoption, Part 1: Lots of Baby Steps
- By John K. Higgins. E-Commerce Times, 15 May 2012. "Eighty-five percent of respondents to a recent Meritalk survey of 108 federal IT professionals mentioned the issue of data security as an impediment to cloud adoption. "The security issue still baffles me," said Meritalk founder Steve O'Keeffe. "I have yet to see what I consider sufficient documentation that the cloud carries any more risk than most existing federal IT operations."..."
Added: 17 May 2012;
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- Big US Department commits to Google technology
- Posted by Stuart Lauchlan. Public Technology, Wednesday 9 May 2012. "In the week Google clocked up its 15 billionth app download, the firm's battle royal with Microsoft has continued with a major victory for it in the US public sector. After several years of court battles and claim and counterclaim, the US Department of the Interior has finally confirmed it will be using Google Apps for Government to provide email and Cloud services..."
Added: 11 May 2012;
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