Commission certifies first 20 EHRs
By Bob Brewin The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) certified yesterday (July 20) twenty electronic health record (EHR) products for use in the places most people receive their health care, physician offices and clinics.
DISA extends Verizon's network management deal
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded a one-year, $7.4 million contract extension to Verizon Communications Inc. to supply bandwidth manager services to the agency's Defense Information Systems Network.
Status of OpenSSL FIPS certification shifts again
The National Institute of Standards and Technology apparently has backtracked on its revocation of OpenSSL certification under the Federal Information Processing Standard.
GSA wants telecom expense management providers
The agency is surveying the market as part of a strategic sourcing initiative.
Microsoft does VOIP
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OMB should sharpen IT project analyses: GAO
With 79 high-risk IT projects totaling about $2.2 billion in danger of running behind schedule or failing, congressional watchdogs say the Office of Management and Budget needs to sharpen the tools it uses to oversee and monitor agency IT spending.
Neal Fox | Contracting in Perspective: GSA'Why It Works
When discussing governmentwide contracting, GSA is clearly the standard by which all others measure their own success. Will that continue, or has GSA had its day in the sun?
DHS site: Drop your duct tape, carry your umbrella
The Homeland Security Department has revamped its emergency preparedness campaign with a Web site makeover that highlights natural rather than terrorism risks.
FinCEN contributed to BSA Direct problems: GAO
Issues that started at the project management level continued and compounded, and were not addressed at the executive level, the Government Accountability Office said in a report about its review of FinCEN's BSA Direct retrieval and sharing system.
Senate lawmakers ask for e-gov support
As the appropriations committees continue to take aim at funding for e-government initiatives, two key senators have joined the fracas in support of the administration's goals.
Open Source encryption module loses FIPS certification
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has revoked certification of the open-source encryption tool OpenSSL under the Federal Information Processing Standard.
New requirements to HSPD-12 RFP
The General Services Administration has added a new milestone to the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 shared-services request for proposals for vendors to deploy up to 60 enrollment stations per month to federal buildings nationwide from January to October 2007.
DHS hires contractor to get Security LOB going
The Department of Homeland Security has hired a contractor and set a deadline to get the Security Line of Business Consolidation effort off the ground.
Indus Corp. files protest of DHS' Eagle contract award
Indus Corp. of Vienna, Va., has filed a bid protest over the Homeland Security Department's multibillion-dollar Eagle contracts for IT services.
IRS names Gonzalez acting CIO
The IRS named Arthur Gonzalez acting CIO as of July 7, the same day then-CIO Todd Grams left the tax agency, an agency spokeswoman said.
FinCEN cancels BSA Direct contract
The project repeatedly missed program milestones and performance objectives during its two years of existence, almost doubling in cost.
Senate hold puts new EPA CIO in limbo
Molly O'Neill, the White House's choice to be the new Environmental Protection Agency CIO, will have to wait longer because two New Jersey senators have placed an indefinite hold on the nomination over environmental regulations.
Justice, DHS launch draft data-sharing model
The Homeland Security and Justice departments today took the wraps off a test version of their model for sharing information about natural disasters, terrorist attacks and other crises.
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