Carol Harris

Expensive software licenses still snare too many agencies

Every federal agency uses software. Too many pay through the nose. Technically, you don’t buy software, you license it. When you end up with more licenses…

Agency Oversight

3 takeaways from the FITARA 17 scorecard roundtable

Reporter's Notebook

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Is the authority of the CIO of Veterans Affairs simply symbolic?

Veterans Affairs

Why the judicial branch needs to improve its information technology

Technology

Exclusive

Cyber, data center, EIS changes highlight FITARA 15

Congress

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Judiciary branch urged to tighten up oversight

Agency Oversight

GAO

Social Security Administration federal data center

New data center journey must include optimization, modernization, hybrid cloud

Ask the CIO

3 takeaways from FITARA 14

Reporter's Notebook

3 takeaways from FITARA 13

Reporter's Notebook

FITARA 13 scorecard brings truce to data center consolidation debate

Congress

FILE- In this March 30, 2019, file photo the Dome of the U.S. Capitol Building is visible as cherry blossom trees bloom on the West Lawn in Washington. On Wednesday, April 10, the Treasury Department releases federal budget data for March. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

When it comes to the data center debate, time to fish or cut bait

Reporter's Notebook

USPS delivers 100M mail-in ballots, authorizes ‘extraordinary measures’ to local management

The Postal Service has already handled 523 million pieces of election mail — including 100 million ballots — and those figures will continue to climb…

Management

Federal IT projects continue to be difficult for agencies to finish

The government has trouble acquiring information technology on budget and according to what it hopes to accomplish. When a project starts to go off the…

Technology

CIO reporting, working capital funds remain outliers in agency IT modernization progress

Congress

The House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on government operations released the 10th Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard and no agency received a “F” or “D” grade for the first time.