President Donald Trump personally steered a $10-billion cloud computing contract away from frontrunner Amazon Web Services out of personal and political animus against Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, according to the details of a lawsuit released publicly Dec. 9.
The Federal Aviation Administration is turning to unmanned aircraft manufacturers, retailers and others in the commercial supply chain to help it develop an electronic platform to support a drone owner safety testing capability. 12/13/2019
While hundreds of additional government cloud projects are being vetted for cybersecurity every year, a GAO audit makes clear that many agencies are still standing up programs without going through FedRAMP. 12/13/2019
The Technology Modernization Fund – the $125 million pool of no-year money appropriated to fast-track technology upgrades – has some potential operational problems, according to an oversight report. 12/13/2019
The latest news and analysis from FCW's reporters and editors. 12/13/2019
Details of a plan to avoid a shutdown will be hashed out over the weekend with bills coming for a vote next week, according to top lawmakers. 12/12/2019
The leader of GSA's Technology Transformation Service wants agency and industry partners to help it develop a common framework for identity management that could eventually become a federal shared service. 12/12/2019
The draft legislation would require DHS to set up internal protocols to document and justify how it uses the authority and report to Congress on its effectiveness. 12/12/2019
At the ninth House hearing on implementation of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act, many agencies showed improvement, but lawmakers cited familiar problems. 12/12/2019
A new survey says annual leave, travel, spending are down as feds budget for furloughs or missing paychecks. 12/12/2019
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Steve Kelman talks with the Navy's Justin Fanelli about lessons learned over a decade of federal agile projects.
If agencies find themselves continually in fire-fighting mode with their security, they likely need a better security architecture -- not just another product. 12/02/2019
CIOs can use hard data to help add value to the modernization discussion. 11/25/2019
A government-backed school for cyber modeled on West Point or the Naval Academy could provide military and civilian agencies sorely needed operators. 10/27/2019
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