Is work culture the biggest roadblock to improving government IT?
Be it deciding between issuing a device or allowing employees to bring their own, or moving agencies’ data centers to the cloud, a group of public and private…
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State Department reels in a Fishackathon
Hackathons aren’t a new phenomenon in government: Groups of developers gather for a specified length of time to solve the world’s problems through coding. But a new initiative from the State…
OMB IT Dashboard not up to par
The Office of Management and Budget’s IT Dashboard is supposed to be a trusted source for transparently analyzing the quality of federal IT investments and reducing duplication.…
Congress turning up the heat on VA CIO
The Department of Veterans Affairs this year plans to award a new contract for a replacement to its outdated scheduling system — the IT infrastructure at the heart…
FedWire: Obama’s Tumblr Q&A, Facebook verifies fed pages and NASA explores the ocean
FedWire is FedScoop’s afternoon roundup of news and notes from the federal IT community. Send your links and videos to tips@fedscoop.com. Ask Obama education questions on Tumblr.…
VMware’s Steven Coles on trends in federal cloud IT
Steven Coles, vice president of network and security for the U.S. public sector at VMware, talks with FedScoopTV about software-defined data centers and other trends in federal…
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The coming invasion: Is federal IT ready for millennials?
The federal workforce is getting old. By 2017, more than a third of career federal workers will be eligible to collect retirement benefits. And that means the…