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Information technology vendors have spotted the next big thing for serving the U.S. government market. The only questions -- and they are big ones -- are 1) whether federal agencies themselves have seen the same thing; and 2) if so, whether they are prepared to jump into yet another new procurement process ...

Doing business with the U.S. government is always a challenge. In addition to uncertain budgets, political infighting, and the seemingly endless procurement terms of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FARs), there are many other special provisions that come into play in government contracting ...

Federal agencies may spend as much as US$10 billion annually on cloud technology by 2018, as the government seeks to take advantage of the operational improvements and efficiencies attributed to the technology. However, deficiencies in contracting for cloud services could compromise the effectiveness of such investments, according to a recent government report.

U.S. government agencies may be warming to the cloud, with ambitions to significantly boost investment in the technology over the next four years. However, many millions of dollars in federal cloud projects could be at risk both currently and in the future, as a result of flawed contract procedures ...

Federal investment in cloud technology is picking up steam and should increase sharply in the next several years -- but that doesn't mean that government agencies suddenly have found that cloud migration will be either quick or simple. ...

Migration to cloud technologies is a challenging task for federal agencies -- even though they have increasingly high hopes for greater adoption of cloud platforms. Information technology managers at federal agencies are seeking to double the utilization of cloud technology for IT infrastructure, software and applications, and platform or middleware purposes, according to a recent survey released by MeriTalk...

Various U.S. government agencies have been conducting research on how best to meet the challenge of privacy in the digital age, with investigations of a wide range of technology issues including encryption, data tagging, sensors, healthcare records and clinical informatics. ...

The ambitious health information technology program now under way at the U.S. Department of Defense has garnered attention from some of the major e-commerce companies in the U.S. The DoD soon will evaluate bids for its 10-year, multibillion-dollar program to enhance its health IT capability, with an emphasis on electronic health records ...

The U.S. government is about to embark on a major information technology program dealing with personal health records. The program is being launched by the U.S. Department of Defense, which issued a request for proposals to health IT providers late last month ...

The U.S. Defense Department is committed to pursuing cloud-based services and steadily has been improving its capabilities to utilize the technology. The latest evidence of DoD embracing the cloud is its approval of a protocol that will facilitate the use of the technology at higher security levels ...

The U.S. government spends tens of billions of dollars each year on information technology -- by some estimates more than US$100 billion. As a result, IT is a highly visible target when the overall federal budget comes under scrutiny. Problems associated with IT operations -- such as the botched launch of the Affordable Care Act -- only intensify such scrutiny...

The U.S. government soon will be operating in the 2015 fiscal year, which begins on Oct. 1. For information technology vendors, marketing to federal agencies will remain challenging during 2015 and succeeding years, as agencies work within a constrained budget environment. ...

The perception that the United States lags behind other countries, especially Asian nations, in exporting information technology deserves another look, according to a recent market report. The U.S. actually recorded a trade surplus in IT in 2011, partly as the result of international trade agreements, according to the TechAmerica Foundation ...

A recent proposal in the U.S. Senate to curb the impact of electronic surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency could enhance privacy for citizens and benefit businesses as well. However, major information technology companies that help the government collect telecom and Internet data still will be vulnerable to the substantial costs of working with the NSA, even if the proposed bill becomes law...

U.S. government agencies are struggling to manage the huge amount of data they generate or process, despite the goals of a program designed to operate thousands of data centers more efficiently. The idea behind the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative, or FDCCI, was to save space, energy and IT costs by consolidating woefully underutilized electronic data storage centers into fewer sites and servers.

The U.S. government's foray into cloud computing could hardly be called "mature," but it appears to be moving from infancy to something akin to pre-teen status. Agencies increasingly are embracing the cloud, and the pace of acquisition reflects more comfort with the solution. Several recently launched initiatives affect federal agencies and technology vendors in the cloud acquisition process, for example...

The TV game show The Price is Right may be an entertaining diversion, but for federal information technology vendors, getting the price right in government contracts is serious business. Two major software providers recently found out how serious it can be as a result of separate U.S. Department of Justice investigations ...

Vendors could be spending a busy summer preparing to respond to a major federal information technology project. The U.S. Defense Department is planning to issue a request for bids on a multibillion dollar electronic health records, or EHR, system by the end of September. ...

In the wake of the problem-plagued rollout of the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as "Obamacare," similar government health information technology efforts are being closely scrutinized within the administration and by Congress. That's why the Department of Defense recently released the third version of a multibillion dollar proposal for a much-improved military health records information system...

When the U.S. Supreme Court issues a unanimous decision, it's easy to conclude that it must be right on the facts, right on the law, and right in applying the law to the facts. So what's not to like about its recent 9-0 ruling in a software patent case? ...