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The Agriculture Department is "struggling" to prioritize how it will address numerous IT security weaknesses, according to an oversight official. In the course of 3 years the Agriculture Department's Read more...

When the White House issued policy in 2004 under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 requiring agencies to issue standardized personal identification cards to federal employees and Read more...

In an effort to streamline and reduce the cost of information technology operations, the Forest Service centralized IT in the early 2000s, but the resulting self-service approach at field units led Read more...

A draft strategic plan for fostering electronic health record adoption among providers tending to underserved populations proposes a program under which vendors would offer reduced health information Read more...

An assessment by the Justice Department's office of information policy on cabinet department self-reported enactment of Obama administration Freedom of Information Act policy during the last fiscal Read more...

An information technology modernization effort at the Agriculture Department, to make the agency that delivers subsidies and loans to farmers more Internet-friendly and free of dependence on an Read more...

Only 40 percent of the Social Security Administration's retirement claims are processed online. With an increase in retirees looming, SSA hopes a mobile application aimed squarely at the heartstrings Read more...

The Energy Department is collaborating with other agencies to ensure smart grid security, which is a top concern for the initiative according to Energy Secretary Steven Chu. He was among the speakers Read more...

Despite efforts to allay agency CIOs' fears around cloud computing, many cite security as a barrier to transitioning information technology to a cloud environment. The Department of Housing and Urban Read more...

Office of Management and Budget officials released a list of 137 data centers it says will be shuttered by Dec. 31, as part of an announcement on April 27. Thirty-nine of those have been closed Read more...