Obama signs Sequestration Transparency Act

A new measure requires the Obama administration to provide to Congress detailed plans for the forced budget cuts that sequestration will bring.

  • By Amber Corrin

Partisan fighing mars sequestration hearing

As a hearing intended to help prepare for the effects of sequestration degenerates into a partisan shouting match, one embarrassed congressman calls the event a 'spectacle.'

  • By Amber Corrin

Inside Obama's digital strategy

The government's push for more mobile access to information will impact devices, policies and infrastructures, but will it be good for business?

  • By Michael Hardy

Chopra returns to consulting firm

Former Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra has returned to the firm where he previously spent nearly 10 years.

Federal CIO details IT forecast

Most IT investments will go toward modernization efforts and cybersecurity, according to Steven VanRoekel.

  • By Camille Tuutti

White House aide Tom Gavin to join IT trade group

Tom Gavin, special assistant to the president, is heading to the Information Technology Industry Council.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Chopra to step down

White House announces the federal CTO is planning a departure.

  • By Camille Tuutti

White House schedules Tweetup during SOTU

Followers of the @WhiteHouse Twitter account are being invited to the White House to live-tweet during the State of the Union speech.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

OMB's Lew to take over as White House chief of staff

OMB head to become Obama's right hand.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Obama, Panetta outline $489B in defense cuts

The administration plans to shift the Pentagon's focus from ground wars to rebuilding and deterrence while preserving innovation and partnership with industry.

  • By Amber Corrin

Deal reached to avert shutdown with only hours to spare

A late-night deal avoided a partial government shutdown, the fifth such occasion this year.

  • By Camille Tuutti

Kundra 'IT cartel' remarks raise ire of contractor professionals

Former Federal CIO Vivek Kundra provoked an outcry with an editorial claiming that major federal contractors are holding back progress in updating federal technology.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Rare 5.9 earthquake shakes up D.C. federal buildings

"Did you feel it?" was the question that boomeranged around Twitter in thousands of tweets after an unusually strong earthquake hit Virginia about 90 miles from Washington, D.C.

  • By Alice Lipowicz and Matthew Weigelt

Kundra claims he started to close the IT gap

Vivek Kundra, the first federal CIO, offers some parting thoughts on public service.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

Tech companies to offer jobs, training to unemployed vets

IT companies pledge to answer the president's challenge to help 100,000 vets.

  • By Washington Technology staff

White House names former Microsoft exec as Kundra's successor

White House officials named former FCC and Microsoft executive as the new federal CIO, succeeding Vivek Kundra.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

White House names accountability board members

President Obama chooses watchdogs in government to lead his board.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

Is better IT spending data coming your way?

The Office of Management and Budget finalized new guidance on reporting IT spending as called for by the Obama administration’s IT reform plan.

  • By Alyah Khan

Did a rogue Twitter account confuse White House town hall participants?

An apparently unrelated Twitter account named @askobama collected more than a thousand users and dozens of tweets in the days before the White House Twitter Town Hall.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Running a federal financial system often a juggling act

The American Council for Technology's Industry Advisory Council gave some advice to the White House on how to sustain effective management of existing federal financial systems while also modernizing those systems.

  • By Alice Lipowicz
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