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  Outgoing Federal CIO Warns of 'IT Cartel' In DC

  Posted: July 18th, 2011, 7:38pm CEST by Soulskill

  Tags:  government  

  CWmike writes "In a wide-ranging discussion Friday with President Barack Obama's top science advisors, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra warned of the dangers of open data access and was sharply critical of government IT contracting, telling the committee: '...We almost have an IT cartel within federal IT' made up of very few companies that benefit from government spending 'because they understand the procurement process better than anyone else.' He added: 'It's not because they provide better technology.'"

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