By J. Nicholas Hoover, Information Week
The federal government plans to slash the number of data centers it operates by 40% by 2015, and the Obama administration will push for legislative changes to consolidate more IT budget and management authority in the hands of agency CIOs, administration officials said in a speech Friday in northern Virginia. LG showcased its Watch Cell Phone at CES 2009 in Las Vegas, demonstrating its ability not just to tell time and make phone calls, but run applications, take photos, take video, conduct two-way videoconferencing and more.The reforms, jump-started by the Office of Management and Budget, come as part of a larger set of “structural changes” and other plans to make federal IT more productive and effective. The policy changes will cap a three-pronged strategy to overhaul federal IT that began this summer with reviews of high-risk IT projects and financial systems modernization efforts.
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