Bracing for a year of budget austerity, federal chief information officers are prioritizing their efforts: Weed out duplicative contracts, share information technology services and focus any savings on investments in new mobile and cloud computing technologies.“We have to figure out a way to continue to bring in all this great emerging technology … in an environment that’s quite austere and probably will get more austere,” Lisa Schlosser, federal deputy chief information officer, told industry and government officials in November.Acting Office of Management and Budget Director Jeffrey Zients announced in October that agencies expect to save $