OMB official cites progress on e-gov business cases
Agencies have made progress in developing e-government business cases, but an Office of Management and Budget official said today that there is still room for improvement.<br>
Healthy Records
The Veteran Affairs and Defense departments have mapped out a new route to interoperable health databases and applications, more than five years after they first conceived the plan.
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By the numbers
Petroleum is the lifeblood of the world economy and a key factor in national security policy.
Another View: Navy's network services buy pays off
A few years ago, network security meant warding off a few viruses and hackers. In al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan, however, our forces found computers containing information on U.S. water systems. As tensions with Iraq rose, so did the threat of cyberattacks. And in 2002, the Federal Computer Incident Response Center tallied 489,912 security incidents, ranging from reconnaissance to denial of services.
Data headaches
I have to agree with some of those pesky senators. The administration's plan for the so-called Terrorism Threat Integration Center seems half-baked, especially with the CIA as the planned host.
Navy CIO trims apps, hails NMCI
David M. Wennergren's professional life changed in December when he became CIO of the Navy. Last month, his life changed again, this time in the personal area: Wennergren and his wife adopted newborn twin girls.
Federal approach to IT spurs growth, researcher says
The government's push toward homeland security and e-government is driving the federal IT market, according to the chief of a federal market research firm. <br>
Quantico Marines first to join Navy's intranet
The Quantico, Va., Marine Corps Base is the first Corps site to begin the transition to the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.
Defense rule pushes online billing
The Defense Department has published an interim rule in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement that requires contractors to submit payment requests electronically.
Border analyses by GIS could untangle Indian trust fund assets
To estimate the scale of the government's debt to American Indians for land holdings, the U.S. District Court in Washington is reviewing information about trust assets created by geographic information system analyses.
Forman assures a House panel that e-gov is making progress
The Disaster Management e-government project is back on track, following changes made in October by the Office of Management and Budget. It was one of a handful of projects highlighted at a House hearing last month about how agencies are faring on their e-government projects.
DOD needs to buck up business systems oversight, GAO says
Congress should tighten its oversight of the Defense Department's business systems modernization, a General Accounting Office auditor tells House lawmakers.
At Homeland Security, the systems add up
The Homeland Security Department so far has identified 2,500 mission-critical systems as part of an IT inventory it expects to complete by June.<br>
TSA enters Stage 2 of IT infrastructure deployment
Integrated Internet-ready applications are being deployed in airports, seaports and other facilities run by the Transportation Security Administration.<br>
Commerce gets off paper trail
Tom Pyke likes to think of the Commerce Department as the Department of E-government. So when Congress passed the Government Paperwork Elimination Act in 2000, CIO Pyke didn't see the edict as much of a burden.
State objectives, but let vendors measure results
Not long ago, an agency senior procurement executive decreed that his office was going to do performance-based services contracting.
Best-made plans draw bucks
You've done everything right'sold your project to agency chiefs, dotted i's and crossed t's on a business case, fit everything securely into the pieces of an enterprise architecture and received the blessing of the Office of Management and Budget.
Ridge: Merging watch lists tops IT agenda
Consolidating the government's various watch lists of suspected terrorists is the Homeland Security Department's top IT goal.<br>
Defense buying chief Aldridge will retire next month
Pete Aldridge Jr., who championed acquisition reform at the Defense Department, will retire next month.
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