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Changes in federal acquisition environment taking toll on vendors

Preliminary results from a Grant Thornton survey of contractors show profits, revenues and overall participation in the government market is down. The pressure from the administration's steps to reign in high risk contracts and reduce spending is having an impact on most contractors. The Navy, for example, is trying to be more disciplined in how it buys goods and services.

Tags: acquisition , contracting , industry , Mark Skinner , Navy , GSA , Mary Davie , Lou Crenshaw , Grant Thornton , Government Contractor Industry Survey , Jason Miller , Federal Drive

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AFFIRM honors White House aide for cyber leadership

Heidi Avery is deputy assistant to the President for homeland security, on the National Security Staff.

Tags: Cybersecurity Update , technology , Heidi Avery , White House , Federal Drive , OMB

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Agency CIOs coveted new Digital, Shared Services strategies

Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel said the new documents met three of five action items that agency technology managers developed last winter. OMB received buy-in not only from CIOs, but CFOs, CAOs and CHCOs before finalizing the plans.

Tags: technology , mobile computing , Steven VanRoekel , OMB , Digital Management Strategy , ACT/IAC , cybersecurity , Bring your own device , Jason Miller

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OMB begins to clarify industry's role in shared services

Agencies face a series of deadlines starting at the end of May to map out their plan to consolidate commodity IT. Vendors will, many times, be the suppliers of the shared service, said Scott Bernard, OMB's chief architect. OMB wants agencies to use the shared services strategy as a guide and the PortfolioStat sessions as the tool to figure out where opportunities exist.

Tags: technology , OMB , Scott Bernard , Andrew McMahon , shared services , Tim Young , Deloitte , Lines of Business , industry , PorfolioStat , Jason Miller

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FedRAMP almost ready to approve first outside security accreditors

GSA, NIST to name the first batch of outside organizations who will test and validate commercial cloud products against baseline security standards in the FedRAMP cloud security program in May. The Joint Authorization Board also will release guidance to industry on how to implement the security requirements in the coming months. FedRAMP still is months from approving its first set of vendors.

Tags: technology , cybersecurity , FedRAMP , third party accreditors , cloud computing , NIST , GSA , DoD , DHS , David McClure , David Devries , Richard Spires , Jared Serbu , industry , Cybersecurity Update

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VanRoekel helping Congress grasp benefits of cloud

The federal CIO said he's not concerned that the administration's cloud initiative will fall victim to the same types of roadblocks lawmakers set out for e-government seven years ago. VanRoekel said members of Congress need data on the value cloud computing brings. He also said vendor management organizations and mobile computing are among his short term priorities.

Tags: technology , cloud computing , Steven VanRoekel , OMB , GSA , mobile , Federal Mobility Strategy , Congress , acquisition , contracting , Army , Jason Miller

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VanRoekel expands on mobile strategy

Darren Ash, the chief information officer of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, helped Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel present more details on the federal mobile stragegy. Ash joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the conversation.

Tags: Darren Ash , NRC , Steven VanRoekel , technology , Gov 2.0 , mobile , In Depth , Francis Rose ,

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Tweets from VanRoekel talk at AFFIRM

Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel discusses the role of technology in "closing the widening productivity gap between government and industry," at an AFFIRM luncheon today.

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Using social media at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Darren Ash, deputy executive director of corporate management at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will talk about how the agency is using youtube and other social media.
November 8, 2011

Tags: technology , Federal Tech Talk , John Gilroy , Darren Ash , NRC , social media , YouTube , Japan earthquake , information management , software development , GSA , FBI , DoD

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Agency CIOs refocus on cybersecurity after blizzard

WFED's Max Cacas reports.

Tags: technology , cybersecurity , Max Cacas

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