OMB: Pass the hat for e-gov funds
Congressional stinginess and the evaporation of federal surpluses have punctured hopes for windfall funding of e-government projects.
Audit: INS botched $31m system
The Immigration and Naturalization Service has mismanaged a $31 million automated system designed to keep track of foreign visitors, according to a recent Justice Department inspector general audit.
FAA asks contractors how to improve acquisition process
The Federal Aviation Administration is on a mission to improve its acquisition process and has asked contractors to comment on its proposed changes.
Push to compete adds weight to FAIR Act
Industry groups and Congress last month took a closer look at the second list of agency inventories released this year under the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act to see how they would be affected by the Bush administration's goal of opening more federal jobs to competition from the private sector.
Sandia systems march in step
Software designed to help nuclear reactor operators comply with federal reporting rules is keeping systems identically configured at one Energy Department laboratory.
NMCI sets Phase 3 of testing
The Navy will begin the third phase of testing the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet next month, which should free the service to assume responsibility for more seats and to cut over facilities to the NMCI environment.
New Air Force satellites will augment Milstar
The Air Force plans to launch two communications satellites over the next six years that will yield a tenfold increase in bandwidth over the current Milstar satellite system.
FedBizOpps will be sole source of solicitation info
The federal government will complete the first step in making procurement a one-stop electronic process on Jan. 1, when FedBizOpps.gov becomes the only comprehensive federal online source for listing and finding solicitations.
GIS standard gets go-ahead from NCITS
The National Committee for IT Standards has approved a spatial data standard developed by the Army Corps of Engineers.
Missouri shows largest state ERP system
Missouri officials last week put the finishing touches on the largest enterprise resource planning system in state government. The Statewide Advantage for Missouri system took four and a half years and about $35 million to complete, said Jan Heckemeyer, SAM II system administrator.
CIOs fret most about service, e-government
CIOs and other executives in government apparently get it, as the vernacular goes. 'It' is the need to improve service to customers and stakeholders using IT. In the most recent survey conducted by the Association for Federal IRM, that's what headed respondents' list of concerns.
Leave bad virus be
W32.Badtrans variants of an old 32-bit Microsoft Windows worm last month infected tens of thousands of computers.
OPM site plays matchmaker for SES jobs
The Office of Personnel Management has created a Web site to encourage members of the Senior Executive Service to change jobs more often.
NMCI sets its Phasers to print worldwide
Xerox Corp. received a five-year contract valued at $50 million to provide network printers for the $6.9 billion Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.
PTO automates 10 patent forms in Adobe PDF
The Patent and Trademark Office has made its 10 most commonly used forms downloadable in fillable Adobe Portable Document Format.
PACKET RAT
Once again, Santa Rat is making his list and checking it twice. And with the ever-growing power of Web search engines, it isn't too hard to find out who's been naughty or nice.
CROSSWORD
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
DID YOU HEAR
Revolving door. Jim McGuirk, e-government veep at Siebel Systems Inc., last month expressed hope that the Office of Management and Budget will soon let vendors zero in on its 23 approved e-gov projects. McGuirk said he hired OMB IT chief Mark Forman years ago to work at Unisys Corp. Now, he says, he's hoping Forman hires him.
DOD-honored security expert and policy-maker George Menas dies
George E. Menas, an expert in technology security policy for the Defense Department, died last month after a battle with cancer. He was 53.
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