fiscal 2012 news from FierceGovernmentIT

The Energy Department is set to receive full funding for development of a supercomputer three orders of magnitude more powerful than today's most powerful computer--an exascale computer. Under a set Read more...

Veterans Affairs Department information technology spending this fiscal year would amount to $3.11 billion under an appropriations bill approved by the House and Senate. The bill, known as an omnibus Read more...

Various efforts by the Office of Management and Budget and General Services Administration to boost the White House information technology agenda will continue to receive funding this fiscal year Read more...

House and Senate lawmakers have approved a spending package for federal agencies covering the remainder of the fiscal year, which began Oct. 1. The bill, known as an omnibus because it consolidates a Read more...

A provision of the fiscal 2012 national defense authorization bill says the military may conduct offensive cyberspace operations subject to the same principles the Defense Department uses for kinetic Read more...

Senators approved Nov. 29 by unanimous consent an amendment to the Senate's version of the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill (S. 1867) that would require contractors to actively monitor for Read more...

A multi-agency funding bill signed into law Nov. 18 by President Obama makes cuts to the amount of money the Justice Department chief information officer will have at command during this fiscal year. Read more...

A multi-agency funding bill signed into law Nov. 18 by President Obama will make cuts to science and research programs relative to the budget request made earlier this year, but only a few agencies Read more...

A "minibus" funding bill signed into law Nov. 18 by President Obama will make a number of cuts in this fiscal year to the Federal Aviation Administration's NextGen air traffic control modernization Read more...

A General Services Administration effort to consolidate federal online acquisition systems will likely receive no development money during the current fiscal year, causing GSA officials to anticipate Read more...