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Issa's IT reform bill moves through committee, concerns still remain

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) with little debate and no amendments. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the bill's author and chairman of the committee, said the provisions to give CIOs more budget control and the IT project and program management improvements will have a big impact on how agencies spend money on technology.

Tags: technology , Darrell Issa , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , acquisition , industry , Mike Hettinger , Software and Information Industry Association , TechAmerica , IT reform , Project management , Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act , strategic sourcing , Jason Miller , exclusive

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Spies give way to 'sexy' social media

The developing field of using social media to gather information can provide benefits to the intelligence community, but it also involves challenges. The changing environment of open source intelligence requires agencies and companies plan their approaches carefully.

Tags: technology , Government Executive magazine , Invertix , Craig Parisot , Open Source Center , Fairmont State University , ODNI , David Abruzzino , Patrick O’Neil , Esther Carey , intelligence , social media , DNI

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Open Source Computing

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Originally Aired December 12th @ 3:05pm

Tags: technology , col. kevin dietrick , Army , michele weslander , ODNI , Casey Coleman , GSA , Andrew Gordon , Unisys , chris runge , Red Hat , Jim Flyzik , Tom Trezza

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Open source platform assisting in Haiti

Brent Woodworth helped to create Sahana and tells us more.

Tags: technology , Sahana , Brent Woodworth , Global Crisis Services , Web 2.0 , government 2.0

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Challenges for federal CIOs in the world of clouds

Host John Gilroy discusses changes and emerging challenges for today's CIO with Peter Tseronis.
March 2, 2010

Tags: National Information Exchange Model , Department of Energy , mobile devices , cloud computing , social networking , technology , Peter Tseronis , Federal Tech Talk , John Gilroy

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Which way the IT contracting winds are blowing

Jim Flyzik
President
TheFlyzikGroup
October 26th, 2009

Tags: contracting , Web 2.0 , B2G , stimulus , cyber security , Healthcare IT ,

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IT for the enterprise: innovation from Sun Microsystems

Bill Vass
President and COO
Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc.
May 26th, 2009

Tags: Sun Microcomputer , Bill Vass , Java , MySQL , enterprise architecture , authentication , technology , contracting

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DoD deputy CIO explains recently released open source memo

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information Management Technology and Deputy CIO explains clarifications.

Tags: technology , management , DoD , David Wennergren , CIO , Web 2.0 , government 2.0 , Dorothy Ramienski

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DoD releases Open Source memo

Deputy CIO explains clarifications.

Tags: technology , management , DoD , David Wennergren , CIO , Web 2.0 , government 2.0

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Open Source 'Anti-capitalist'?

Tags: technology , Scott McNealy , Sun Federal , FOSE , CTO , CIO

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