The strategy envisions a governmentwide architecture that can leverage innovative technology to make more government data and services available through a variety of channels.
Many government departments and agencies have rid themselves of the most obvious efficiency offenders: small data centers, facilities previously marked for closure and IT resources deemed surplus to mission requirements.
Is it just coincidence that unmanaged and unpatched software continues to be a major security problem?
Editors are looking for exceptional federal, state and local government IT projects and management teams, to be honored for their ingenuity, organizational skill and contribution to the public.
It's not that cloud isn't important, but federal IT professionals see other issues as more urgent, a recent Serena Software survey suggests.
Budget-strapped agencies are looking for savings in e-mail consolidation, whether in a public, private or hybrid cloud. Here's how four organizations did it.
Getting the most out of consolidating a distributed, siloed IT environment requires management, fair deals and not being a bully.
State CIOs who have finished e-mail consolidation projects suggest starting small, communicating widely and considering a tiered services approach.
Over the past decade, Michigan's Department of Information Technology has cut costs by consolidating resources and standardizing its approach to better meet the needs of the state's agencies.
In the last two years Oklahoma has saved nearly $40 million from consolidating technology projects and systems in 120 different agencies.
A panel discussion on maintaining cybersecurity with a shrinking government budget quickly focuses on the workforce.
Obama's 2013 budget proposal aims to cut federal IT but increase its use when it makes government more efficient. Here's where 10 departments stand.