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On counting chickens and riding donkeys--it's budget season

A farmer's daughter was going to market, carrying a pail of milk on her head. As she walked, she thought, "When I sell this milk, I'll have enough money to buy dozens of eggs. When the eggs hatch,

Kundra: 'Cloud first' to be funded by data center consolidation savings

Agency migration to cloud computing will be funded by reinvesting savings realized from data center consolidation, said Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra while speaking to reporters Feb.

Cybersecurity runs deep in fiscal 2012 budget request

Cybersecurity gets robust attention in the fiscal 2012 budget request released Feb. 14 by President Obama, with federal agencies requesting billions of dollars dedicated to cyber. The Homeland

Proposed federal IT spend in fiscal 2012 at least $79.5 billion

The federal government wants to spend $79.5 billion on information technology in fiscal 2012, says the Office of Management and Budget. The amount would add up to a 1.9 percent increase over the

FierceGovernmentIT covers the fiscal 2012 budget request - UPDATED II

By David Perera and Molly Bernhart Walker The fiscal 2012 annual spending request (.pdf) for the federal government delivered to Congress on Feb. 14 projects $3.73 trillion in spending for fiscal

Audio: VA CIO Roger Baker's December IT report

Veterans Affairs Department Chief Information Officer Roger Baker talked with reporters Dec. 22 about the department's monthly data breach report (.pdf)--scroll down to listen to a full recording of

How government can save billions in IT costs

There are plenty of ideas floating around for the federal government to harness information and do it cheaper. In one of the latest, MeriTalk , an online community for government IT, recently