NASA Ames Hosts White House CIO

Vivek Kundra, the federal chief information officer, announced a new government cloud computing initiative at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., on Sept. 15, 2009. Kundra unveiled the new Apps.gov platform, an online storefront for federal agencies to browse and purchase cloud-based information technology (IT) services and predicted it would significantly lower government costs