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Friday, October 7, 2011
FDCCI – Lowering Costs & Environmental Impact of Government IT
At DOT, we view FDCCI as an opportunity to leverage new technologies and surplus data center capacity to achieve further cost savings and cost avoidance.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Shutting Down Duplicative Data Centers
Just as our cell phones and computers have gotten progressively more efficient over the past decade, so too have data servers. However, the government has not taken advantage of the increasing efficiency of data storage.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Cracking Down on Wasteful, Duplicative Spending
For too long, the Federal Government allowed the American people’s hard-earned tax dollars to fund ineffective and duplicative projects, failing to leverage advances in technology to achieve savings. The result is that taxpayer dollars have been wasted. This should never be tolerated, but particularly with the tough fiscal situation, it’s unacceptable. It’s time that we live within our means, cut the waste too prevalent in Washington, and live up to our responsibility to the American people.
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Friday, December 17, 2010
Department of the Interior is Leading the Way in Redefining the Role of the Department CIO
Too often we hear stories about how the Federal government, for one reason or another, lacks technological capabilities that are commonplace in the private sector and our everyday lives. For example, when this Administration first came into office employees at the Department of the Interior couldn’t even send a department-wide message due to its siloed infrastructure, which consists of 210 data centers and 9,000 servers.
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Friday, December 10, 2010
Saving Money on Government IT
For too long, many government IT projects cost hundreds of millions of dollars more than they should, took years longer than necessary to deploy, and delivered technologies that were obsolete by the time they were completed. This summer we took a hard look at 26 high priority projects that were either over budget, behind schedule, or at high risk for the kinds of problems that too often plague our large IT efforts. We completed the review of two projects in October, and this week, we announced the results from our review of the next 16 projects.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Seeing Eye to Eye with the Tech CEO Council
Today, the Technology CEO Council released a report outlining a plan to “maximize productivity…and enhance government services” through the use of technology. This distinguished group of corporate leaders -- from companies such as IBM, Dell, and Motorola -- believe that by utilizing some of the best practices of the private sector, the government can realize significant savings and improve the service delivered to you, the taxpayers.
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Ongoing Virtualization Activities at NRC
I recently participated in a panel discussion about Virtualization. The discussion started with a solid explanation of what it is, why it is important, and how it is being used both in the public and private sector.
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Monday, June 28, 2010
Cutting Waste by Reforming IT
As I’ve written before, one source of ineffective and inefficient government is the technology gap between the public and private sectors.
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Closing the IT Gap
The Federal Government lacks many of the technological capabilities that are commonplace in the private sector and our everyday lives. This IT gap significantly impacts our ability to improve the efficiency of government and deliver better services to the American people.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Moving To The Cloud
Today, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board announced that it is moving Recovery.gov to the cloud. As the world’s largest consumer of information technology and as stewards of taxpayer dollars, the Federal Government has a duty to be a leader in pioneering the use of new technologies that are more efficient and economical.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
TechStat: Improving Government Performance
In June 2009, we launched the IT Dashboard, which allows the American people to monitor IT investments across the Federal government. The IT Dashboard, which has received over 86 million hits, shines light into the operations of the Federal government. However, it is not enough to simply shine a light on IT programs and hope that results will follow.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Streaming at 1:00: In the Cloud
Today, I am excited to announce that we have launched Apps.gov to help continue the President’s initiative to lower the cost of government operations while driving innovation within government. I'll be discussing this in a speech at the NASA Ames Research Center at 1:00 EDT - watch the speech live here [UPDATE: This event has now concluded].
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Evidence-based decisions
Tags: Vivek Kundra, U.S. CIO, Federal CIO, waste reduction, halted IT projects, Federal CIOs, agency CIOs, blog, IT Dashboard, open government, accountability, Secretary Shinseki, VA CIO, Roger Baker, Federal IT investments, access to data, citizen engagement, transparency, Department of Veterans Affairs, VA, TechStat accountability sessionsToday, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), under the leadership of Secretary Shinseki and VA CIO Roger Baker, announced that it will temporarily halt 45 IT projects which are either behind schedule or over budget and work to determine whether these programs should be continued. We’re not talking about a trivial sum here—the Fiscal Year 2009 combined budget for the 45 projects is approximately $200 million. The worst offender of the bunch was 110% over budget and 17 months behind schedule.
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