The Homeland Security Department is making progress in instituting a suite of IT services built on cloud technology and enterprise infrastructure, designed to save money and cut down on duplicative systems. In doing so, DHS is overcoming hurdles in culture and component stovepipes, according to CIO Richard Spires.

The Homeland Security Department is struggling with managing all its mobile devices, and faces challenges in leveraging smart phones, tablets and laptop to increase workforce productivity, according to an inspector general.

The Homeland Security Department will take a yet more active role in federal civilian agencies' cybersecurity efforts, the department announced June 25 in briefings to civil servants and the private sector.

The Environmental Protection Agency has chosen a cloud services provider as part of its effort to shift 80 percent of its IT to the cloud in the next three years.

The Department of the Interior’s Office of Law Enforcement and Security awarded what is believed to be the first platform as a service cloud computing contract in the federal government. The contract, awarded to Verizon, will provide an Interior-wide information collection, analysis, and reporting system for incident information.

An organization headed by a former federal CIO contends that despite Google's claims, its consumer privacy policy does apply to government customers in some cases.

In the rush to use mobile devices, agencies continue to struggle with how best to secure these smartphones and tablet computers. But should agencies look at these popular devices any differently than more traditional desktop or laptop computers?

The federal mobile strategy unveiled May 23 punctuated the digital change already afoot across the government, but will the new standards help agencies overcome age-old challenges?

NASA's prestige and participation has been a selling point for advocates of the OpenStack open source cloud project, which NASA co-founded with San Antonio infrastructure-as-a-service provider RackSpace. Unfortunately, they'll have to get along without NASA from here on.

Google's consumer privacy policies may make some users squirm, but those policies could be downright unacceptable if applied to government workers who use Google services thanks to the company's contracts with public institutions. However, it appears those consumer policies are being applied to government contracts, according to a privacy watchdog group.