6 Tech Takeaways in the new spending bill

House and Senate negotiators unveiled a $1.1 trillion spending bill that would fund the government and keep the lights on at federal agencies through the end of fiscal 2015. Here are 6 tech takeaways from the bill:

1) US Digital Service Gets Funding Approved
2) National Institute Standards and Technology (NIST) Cyber Funding Mostly Intact
3) Civilian Cyber Campus Gets the Green Light
4) Agencies: Listen to Your CIOs
5) Veterans Affairs-Department of Defense Health Record Funding Comes with Strings Attached
6) Department of Defense Cloud Computing: Show Us the Money -- Congress wants to know how much DOD has saved by using cloud computing