Congress has long recognized that IT systems provide essential services critical to the health, economy, and defense of the nation. In support of these systems, the federal government annually spends ...

Just weeks before the mid-August deadline for federal agencies to submit their actions plans explaining how they will comply with the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA), a ...

A new Government Accountability Office report found that the Department of Veterans Affairs isn’t always including its CIO in tech procurements, as required by the FITARA. The Department of Veterans ...

In a candid and wide-ranging discussion, the leaders tasked with making IT reform a reality debate the key (and sometimes still missing) ingredients. FEMA CIO Adrian Gardner at an FCW-hosted ...

The House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations plans to revise the methodology behind FITARA grading, after 13 agencies’ overall grades remained the same on the 13th biannual ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. To see the impact of the Federal Information ...

FITARA scorecards have been a powerful tool for agency improvements but they also are a guide for contractors looking to help their customers modernize their operations and move toward hybrid cloud ...

Elizabeth Neus is the former managing editor of FedTech and the former producer of FedTech's award-winning Feds in the Field video series. The Washington Nationals are her team; 80s Brit pop is her ...

You don’t usually see innovation happening first in government; that’s typically the bailiwick of private industry. But in the case of the General Services Administration, great strides have been made ...

The government's effort to squeeze value from centralized purchasing of wireless devices is taking hold but could be slowing its ability to embrace Internet of Things technology, according to a new ...