Steven VanRoekel, U.S. Chief Information Officer, Office of Management & Budget

Today marks one year since we released the Digital Government Strategy (PDF/ HTML5), as part of the President’s directive to build a 21st Century Government that delivers better services to the American people. The Strategy is built on the proposition that all Americans should be …

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As the Federal Government has moved to embrace the wider use of mobile devices, agencies have begun to develop structures and procedures that allow for the secure adoption of commercially created mobile applications (apps). In conjunction with the Digital Government …

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Just as smartphones, tablets, and mobile applications have transformed the way individuals interact with and access their personal data, these technologies offer Federal agencies and their workers a way to better support their missions and perform their jobs more effectively …

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America is developing quite an app-etite. The number of U.S. smartphone owners is approaching 130 million, resulting in more and more demand for mobile access to our information. Combine that with the increase in consumers wanting access to fresh, local …

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The Obama Administration today took groundbreaking new steps to make information generated and stored by the Federal Government more open and accessible to innovators and the public, to fuel entrepreneurship and economic growth while increasing government transparency and efficiency. Earlier …

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The CIO Council is releasing a Federal Shared Services Implementation Guide today that continues to build on the Federal IT Shared Services Strategy that was released last May. Implementing shared services is a compelling approach for Federal agencies today that …

Steven VanRoekel, U.S. Chief Information Officer, Office of Management & Budget

We have all seen first-hand the ability of information technology (IT) to transform our world. The interconnectedness of  cloud computing, open data, social collaboration and  mobile devices has changed the way we share information, changed the way we use and …

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The 2012 Information Technology Workforce Assessment for Cybersecurity (ITWAC) is being released publicly today – the first report of its kind giving a snapshot of the current Federal civilian IT workforce with cybersecurity responsibilities. The data collected under this assessment …