The rough economic seas we’re sailing these days can make anyone queasy about our nation’s future. Longstanding concerns about U.S. competitiveness in the global economy are accelerating these concerns. For years, many international and domestic studies have found that the United States continues to lag behind other developed countries in access to, and annual spending on, education, research and development. These gaps are especially worrisome in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, where U.S. innovation has fueled the country’s technological and economic dominance for dec... read more...
It’s an unfortunate irony that many U.S. military personnel stationed overseas – nearly 300,000 in 2010 – have difficulty voting in elections back home. Fortunately, a new cloud computing service is helping overcome the tyranny of distance and help them exercise the right they defend for us all. LiveBallot - a cloud-based service that enables absen... read more...
The federal belt-tightening promised for 2012 will start shortly, meaning government agencies are already scrambling to find ways to squeeze the most from existing IT investments while meeting mandates to move to cloud and mobile computing. Decreased funding for federal IT will force federal employees, contractors and partners to find more efficien... read more...
Will the transition to a new Federal CIO hinder federal cloud computing deployment?