Profile of J. Nicholas Hoover
Senior Editor, InformationWeek Government
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Articles by J. Nicholas Hoover
posted in January 2012
1/31/2012
As White House continues to push cloud computing, federal IT managers still worry about security and costs, Ponemon survey finds.
1/30/2012
Six former employees and contractors of the Food and Drug Administration have filed suit, saying documents show the agency monitored their personal email and retaliated against their whistleblowing.
1/27/2012
Chopra, the first person to hold the federal CTO post and a strong voice behind Obama administration efforts on open government, will depart in February.
1/20/2012
Defense department's advisory board urges military to give DOD CIO more authority to drive data center consolidation and cloud computing.
1/19/2012
Secure, interoperable radio network project created in the wake of 9/11 attacks may be headed for failure, with $356 million already spent, says report by DOJ''s inspector general.
1/18/2012
House website provides machine-readable legislation, while iPad app gives users access to the full Congressional Record.
1/18/2012
Novel cooling system turns normal groundwater into big savings for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is running a new 162 teraflop supercomputer, Olympus.
1/10/2012
The agency will rely on private apps developed using National Weather Service data rather than developing apps itself, but weather service union is calling the move tantamount to privatization.