GSA to study ideas for organizational changes
The General Services Administration's plan for reorganizing its operations is the latest chapter in its efforts to improve the way it does business.
FinCEN to deploy data-sharing system
The Treasury agency will launch a system March 1 so law enforcement and financial institutions can share information about people suspected of financing terrorist activities.
Bush requests $65.1 billion for IT in 2006
The president's budget request calls for a 7.1 percent increase in IT spending next year.
OMB names Labor's Law to lead e-gov subcommittee
It's the second time a Labor deputy secretary has been named to the job of overseeing the e-government component of the President's Management Agenda.
Defense CIO pleased with funding
The Defense Department's CIO said he is encouraged by the support offered to key programs of the Global Information Grid in 2006 budget talks.
Packet Rat: The whiskered one tries a new open-source ingredient
Sometimes, when a company does what it has repeatedly said it will do, it still comes as a surprise.
Neil Stillman, first CIO of HHS, passes away
Neil J. Stillman, the first CIO of the Health and Human Services Department, died suddenly last month. He was 62.
Settlement on much-protested deal frees HUD to modernize IT
With its hands now untied, the Housing and Urban Development Department can implement its IT modernization.
Hill takes a close look at high-risk programs
The Defense Department runs eight programs that are at risk of failing, including its initiative to transform 4,700 business systems.
Uncle Sam cracks down on the use of fake diplomas in government
The Internet has made it possible for phony schools to proliferate and difficult for state and federal agencies to prosecute them, so the government will fight fire with fire, using a new Web site to help users distinguish legitimate schools from diploma mills.
SAIC sees future for FBI system
The FBI should fully deploy the Virtual Case File case management system despite the problems it has experienced and the criticism it has received, an executive of Science Applications International Corp. said last week.
XML excises the Army's ancient forms system
When the Army embarked late last year on a mission to overhaul its antiquated approach to managing forms, officials turned to Extensible Markup Language.
GSA gets semantic with architecture reference models
The General Services Administration is one agency making strides in trying to find a path to the semantic Web through a pilot to encode Federal Enterprise Architecture reference models.
DHS sets timeline for enterprise portal initiative
The Homeland Security Department will start evaluating technologies and products in preparation for a March RFP for its enterprise portal initiative.
For '06, most agencies' IT budgets will be flat
When President Bush sends his fiscal 2006 budget proposal to Congress today, agencies that do not carry out defense or homeland security missions should expect flat or reduced IT budgets.
Congress aims to clear backlog of security clearances
More than 500,000 federal and contract employees are stuck in limbo, unable to do the work the government hired them to do.
People on the Move
b>Lisa Schlosser</b> took over as CIO for the Housing and Urban Development Department to- day.
Six Quicksilver projects may get e-gov awards
Six of the 25 Quicksilver initiatives are among the 25 finalists for the Excellence.gov awards, given each year to projects that show the best practices of e-government.
Postal Service to consolidate servers, improve support
The Postal Service replaced all of its servers, PCs and notebooks two years ago, reducing the number of servers to less than 4,000 from about 20,000. But now USPS chief technology officer Robert Otto wants to consolidate further.
OPM public affairs officer Asher murdered
Warren 'Rusty' Asher, a longtime public affairs specialist at the Office of Personnel Management, was found murdered in his Washington home late last month.
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