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Despite High Returns, Federal Agencies Get Average Grades For Mobile Progress

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, June 18th, 2014

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Federal IT managers give their agencies average grades for progress made on mobility and telework, despite a law, a White House strategy and high returns to investment encouraging them to embrace laptops over desktops, according to a survey from Alexandria, Va.-based Mobile Work Exchange. Seventy-seven percent of IT managers said their agency deserved a B or a C grade for its implementation of 2012’s Digital Government Strategy–the White House’s effort to make government data more compatible and accessible from mobile…

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