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Treasury valued AT&T as provider more than it valued competence, says IG
It was more important for the Treasury Department to keep AT&T ( NYSE: T ) as its tele-communications contractor than "to take the proper steps to either obtain satisfactory performance from the
Expect a high C&A burden when deploying Drupal in a controlled environment
Across government, open source web content management system Drupal is increasing in popularity. But most of the buzz has been around sites such as WhiteHouse.gov and Energy.gov , not from Defense or
DOJ components vary drastically in cloud adoption
The divide between cloud computing's early adopters and those struggling to make the shift is largely dictated by an agency's information-technology buying structure, said a Justice Department
GSA official: Agencies will likely customize FedRAMP
The General Services Administration is getting closer to debuting its Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP , but that does not necessarily mean the cloud computing
LLNL authorizing official didn't know of 'significant' cybersecurity changes
The federal official responsible for authorizing systems to operate on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory network wasn't always notified of significant cybersecurity changes to the systems he
FedRAMP officials reach consensus on controls, says Bhagowalia
Federal officials at work on the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program have agreed on a set of minimal common security controls for cloud computing, said a senior General Services
Open source in government still difficult, say conference attendees
Despite an assertion that many federal agencies actively employ open source software, the message from a Feb. 11 open source-focused event called Tech@State hosted by the State Department was that
New DoD strategic management plan calls for acquisition reform
The fiscal 2011 Defense Department strategic management plan calls for the department to undertake a number of initiatives for reforming the acquisition process. The plan, called "the highest-level
Commerce Department to face IT challenges in the coming year, says IG
Information technology issues figure prominently in a Dec. 20 inspector general report (.pdf) on management and performance challenges facing the Commerce Department in fiscal 2011. The report, which
DOT auditors fault CIO cybersecurity hole prioritization policy
A new Transportation Department chief information officer policy for prioritizing the remediation of cybersecurity vulnerabilities wrongly incentivizes staff to resolve low-priority weaknesses before
