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More Aggressive Oversight Of Agency FOIA Compliance Is Needed, GAO Says
Joseph Marks | Nextgov | September 10, 2013
The government ombudsman for evaluating agencies’ compliance with the Freedom of Information Act should be more aggressive, a congressional auditor said on Tuesday. Read More »
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New US Digital Service Looks to Avoid IT Catastrophes
Alex Howard | TechPresident | August 13, 2014
The second initiative went live on Monday, when the White House formally launched a United States Digital Service (USDS) and published an open source Digital Services Playbook and a “TechFAR,” a part of the guide that “highlights the flexibilities in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) that can help agencies implement ‘plays’ from the Digital Services Playbook.” Read More »
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NIST Releases Cloud Computing Roadmap
Joseph Marks | NextGov | November 2, 2011
The government should establish common cloud computing products and services standards so agencies can easily shift their business to a new provider if their current vendor isn't meeting their needs, a government technology reviewer said Tuesday. Read More »
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Obama orders agencies to make data open, machine-readable by default
Sean Gallagher | ArsTechnica | May 9, 2013
President Barack Obama issued an executive order today that aims to make "open and machine-readable" data formats a requirement for all new government IT systems. The order would also apply to existing systems that are being modernized or upgraded. If implemented, the mandate would bring new life to efforts started by the Obama administration with the launch of Data.gov four years ago. Read More »
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Obama's Budget Cuts Fed IT by $586 Million
Brian Heaton | Government Technology | February 13, 2012
President Barack Obama has slashed almost $600 million from last year’s federal IT funding in his fiscal year 2013 budget proposal. If enacted, the proposal would put total federal IT spending at just under $78.9 billion, a 0.7 percent reduction from fiscal 2012. Read More »
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Obama's Second-Term Management Agenda To Focus On People Power
Jack Moore | Federal News Radio | September 12, 2013
The architects of President Barack Obama's second-term management agenda say changing the culture of the federal workforce — not just technology — is driving the administration's efforts to make government more innovative. Read More »
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OMB Shared First Should Include Open Source, Says Group
David Perera | FierceGovernmentIT | February 6, 2012
Open source advocates urge the Office of Management and Budget to expand its Shared First strategy to include open source software development in a Feb. 2 comment posted online.
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OMB Should Improve IT Investment Guidance, Watchdog Says
Joseph Marks | NextGov | October 26, 2011
The Office of Management and Budget should give federal agencies better guidance on what counts as an information technology investment and what doesn't and demand more information on what they're doing to reduce duplicative IT spending, a watchdog said Wednesday. Read More »
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OMB Turns To The People-Solution To Fix Troubled IT Programs
Jason Miller | Federal News Radio | September 15, 2014
...Steve VanRoekel, the federal chief information officer, detailed two specific initiatives under the agenda's smarter IT delivery area to address the technical expertise of federal employees. One is around flexible hiring, and a second is trying another employee exchange program...
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Op-Ed: Open Data Policy Has Far-Reaching Implications For Health Care
Viet Nguyen and Rob Sax | Nextgov | January 10, 2014
In May 2013, the [OMB] released an executive order that requires federal agencies to use machine-readable and open formats -- in addition to data standards and other regulations -- for creating and collecting information. This new policy will have a significant impact on how public and private organizations access and leverage information. Read More »
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Open Data Executive Order Compliance: The Bad And The Good.
Matthew Rumsey and Ginger McCall | Sunlight Foundation | December 2, 2013
The first major deadline for agency compliance with President Obama's open data Executive Order arrived this past Saturday. Agencies were required to, among other things, provide the Office of Management and Budget with an "Enterprise Data Inventory" and release a list of all their public data via a /data page on their websites. Read More »
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Open Source in Government IT: It Is About Savings but That's Not the Whole Story
Tina Amirtha | ZD Net | November 17, 2016
The US government spends about $6bn per year on software licenses and maintenance, according to the Office of Management and Budget. Given the scale of that spending, it's understandable that the US, like other administrations around the world, is considering open-source software and open software standards as a way of saving money. But more than just seeing the move to open source as a cost-effective alternative, public officials worldwide view it as a means of speeding up innovation in the public sector...
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OpenSSF Gathers US Government and Industry Leaders at Secure Open Source Software Summit 2023
Press Release |
Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) |
September 13, 2023
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), a cross-industry initiative of the Linux Foundation that focuses on sustainably securing open source software (OSS), brought together US Government (USG) officials from the National Security Council (NSC), Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) among others with industry leaders at the Secure Open Source Software (SOSS) Summit 2023. Participants at the Summit discussed the security challenges for the consumption of OSS in critical infrastructure sectors and beyond and highlighted the shared responsibility needed to ensure the resilience of OSS in critical infrastructure.
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OSEHRA Community Responds to the Federal Government's Proposed Open Source Policy
The OSEHRA community today submitted a response to the "Draft Open Source Policy for Federal Agencies" released by the White House on March 10. The policy was open for comments through today. This is a major milestone for the OSEHRA community as well as the open source community as a whole. Currently the US Government spends nearly a hundred billion dollars a year on software purchased from the private sector or procured from government contractors. Most of this software acquisition ends up in failure. President Barack Obama has made it a priority to shift technology acquisition policies to solve this problem and restore technology innovation by embracing open source.
Posted April 11, 2016 - 8:36pm by Roger A. Maduro
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OSFA: Open Source Key to 'Shared First'
Luke Fretwell | FedScoop | February 9, 2012
The open source software in government advocacy group Open Source for America has issued a statement of support for U.S. Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel’s “Shared First” initiative that calls for federal agencies to leverage best practices and existing technology resources to realize costs savings and increased efficiencies.
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