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Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra unveiled the first formal effort during a morning speech at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, announcing the Apps.gov Web site operated by the General Services Administration. It promises to streamline the government purchasing process by allowing agencies to shop for online applications already approved for use, he said. The goal of the broader cloud project, which could take 10 years to complete, is to overhaul a system in which each agency assembles its own system of underutilized hardware and weaves together patchworks of software that are expensive to maintain and upgrade.
