office of management and budget news from FierceCIO

Congress is currently grappling with legislation to fight cybercrime and to improve government information security compliance. The measure is likely to have an impact on the private sector, too. The Read more...

The White House became the latest supporter of software as a service (SaaS) to make the electronic world hum instead of clang. Karen Evans, administrator of the Office of Management and Budget's Read more...

In an effort to balance the need to protect small inventors with encouragement for large players to innovate, the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed the Patent Reform Act. The bill aims Read more...

The U.S. Office of Management and Budget is hanging tough with its mandate to start rolling out IPv6 across the entire federal government by 2008. The estimated cost for the U.S. government's Read more...

Given the laptop thefts and other security incidents hitting the news on the federal government level, it's safe to say that a mandate for good security checklists and proper remote data protection Read more...

In the strongest directive yet at getting a grip on data security, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has stipulated that all federal agencies report a data breach or data security incident Read more...

While homeland security is pulling in new technology and spending money, most federal IT organizations are keeping spend down or at par with last year's budgets. In fact, federal tech spend may Read more...