DOD to bring down the procurement hammer
The Defense Department's director of procurement promises to be more 'heavy handed' when it comes to agency regulatory issues.<br>
Sixty percent of tax returns have been e-filed
Electronic filing of income tax returns remains at record levels.<br>
EPA readying data exchange network
The Environmental Protection Agency is pushing Web services to its limit and by Dec. 31 should have the biggest operational network using this technology.<br>
Sun and Microsoft promise to play nice
The $1.9 billion agreement between Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. promises interoperability between the company's product lines, company executives said today.<br>
'04 on the floor
Thousands of feds and other government IT officials gathered at the Washington Convention Center last month for the three days of FOSE, the nation's largest government IT trade show. In addition to displays and demonstrations of the latest technologies, sessions at FOSE, owned by PostNewsweek Tech Media, tackled many of government's most challenging issues, from security and procurement methods to workforce and cross-government online services.
Personal space: Plaid piper
At Maxwell Air Force Base-Gunter Annex, Ala., database programmer and bagpiper Charles Hightower often dons his kilt to solemnize official events, Highland games and funerals. His favorite event was piping in the fighter aces several times at the Air Force Museum's Gathering of Eagles. 'Chuck Yeager was always near the front of the line,' he says.
Packet Rat: The Rat cuddles up to a snake
With the throngs jamming the Washington Convention Center for FOSE 2004, even the Rat'an experienced conduit crawler'was getting just a tad claustrophobic.
Agencies receive kudos for their IT excellence
Two Quicksilver e-government initiatives were among six federal and two state and local IT projects that received Showcase of Excellence awards at FOSE 2004 in Washington.
FOSE 2004 delivers techie goodies
'Government is starting to lead in its implementation of technology to change process,' Cisco Systems Inc. CEO John Chambers said during the FOSE 2004 opening address in Washington.
HHS awards CSC $46 million Medicare drug card IT support
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has reached an agreement with Computer Sciences Corp. to provide Medicare Drug Discount Cards.<br>
U.S. CERT is still getting its footing
Criticism that the Bush administration has not placed a priority on protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against computer attacks is off the mark, the Homeland Security Department's Lawrence Hale says.
IRS Oversight Board and commish bump heads
In a dramatic divergence from the IRS, the IRS Oversight Board last week said the Bush administration's proposed fiscal 2005 budget will hamstring the tax agency's efforts to upgrade its systems.
It's an empty-job hat trick: Haycock, Stenbit and Ladner
Three top-level IT chiefs'Robert Haycock, John Stenbit and Drew Ladner'have left or announced plans to leave their posts.Haycock will leave the Office of Management and Budget without a chief architect. The Defense Department is awaiting confirmation of its candidate to replace Stenbit as CIO. And Ladner recently told the White House he would be leaving his Treasury Department CIO job.
OMB lines up next set of e-gov projects
The Office of Management and Budget expects agencies to finish the next set of e-government projects by October 2005.To set this process in motion, the General Services Administration later this month will release a request for information to industry for initiatives aimed at consolidating lines of business.
E-gov efforts moving forward? Depends who you ask
Graduation day is coming for the 25 Quicksilver initiatives, and some projects won't be walking across the stage. Many of the Office of Management and Budget's e-government projects have failed to meet or have only partially met most of their objectives over the past two years, a senior General Accounting Office official told lawmakers last month.
A few steps forward at DHS, a few steps back
As the government's homeland security operations mature, its IT functions appear less like a helpless newborn and more like an energetic if fumbling toddler.
Online Extra: IG defines DHS' systems troubles
The DHS inspector general highlighted problems so serious that auditors omitted details about them in a report for fear of compromising security.<br>
Online Extra: BNTA winners
Winners list of Best New Technology Awards at FOSE 2004. <br>
Laura Callahan resigns from DHS
Laura Callahan, former senior director in the Homeland Security Department's CIO office, resigned from the department late last month.Callahan had been on administrative leave with pay since last June, after a PostNewsweek Tech Media investigation revealed that she had three questionable degrees from a diploma mill in Wyoming.
Defense agency awards satellite imagery pact
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded Orbimage Inc. a satellite-imaging contract under its ClearView program. The Dulles, Va., company's 22-month contract has a minimum guarantee of $27.6 million.
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