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The Interior Department's National Business Center has expanded the cloud computing services it is offering federal agencies by including cloud-delivered software applications.

The Obama administration is reportedly drafting a proposal to give contracting preferences to companies that pay their workers more wages and benefits than required by law.

Chief information officers from the Treasury and Homeland Security departments will lead the government's effort to consolidate nearly 1,200 data centers, federal CIO Vivek Kundra announced today.

The country is not taking cybersecurity seriously and will fall victim to a devastating cyber attack within the next few years, former National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell told lawmakers Tuesday.

The Office of Personnel Management stores millions of federal employees' paper personnel files at a massive facility in Pennsylvania, just one example of how the federal government has failed to digitize records and effectively use technology, Chief...

The federal government isn't prepared to cope with a widespread cyber attack, former top Bush and Clinton administration officials said Tuesday.

Federal agencies and companies must ensure citizens trust the security of electronic medical records so patients will be willing to participate in record exchanges.

Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra is holding three to four meetings a week with agency CIOs to assess whether troubled technology projects should be halted, terminated or restarted.

The federal government is losing "the sense of urgency" in the cybersecurity battle, says the author of the Obama administration's 2009 cybersecurity report.

At a data facility in Germantown, Md., the Energy Department runs its most mission-critical operations: office management applications; e-mail services; network management; personnel, procurement, financial and project management applications; and others.