White papers offer e-gov component architecture help
New reports from the Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office and the CIO Council's architecture working group offer guidance on planning, costs.
The week's top stories forOct. 21 through Oct. 25
<p><a href=http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/20333-1.html>DOD must get more than three bids on big service orders</a><p> <a href=http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/20329-1.html> Architecture for homeland security agencies coming together</a><p> <a href=http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/20327-1.html>Bush signs $355 billion Defense bill</a><p> <a href=http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/20326-1.html>GAO names winners, losers in performance-based contracting</a><p> <a href=http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/20324-1.html>What's the effect of the budget impasse?</a>
DOD must get more than three bids on big service orders
A full-blown competition with "many more" than three contractors is the new way of doing business for Defense Department contracting officers for all service orders over $100,000.<br>
Architecture for homeland security agencies coming together
Technology officials in the White House's Office of Homeland Security transition planning office have detailed the IT platforms for all 22 agencies that would be included in the new Homeland Security Department.
Bush signs $355 billion Defense bill
President Bush signed into law today a $355.1 billion defense appropriations bill marking the largest increase in defense spending across the board since the Reagan administration 20 years ago. <br>
GAO names winners, losers in performance-based contracting
Agencies spent $28.6 billion last fiscal year on performance-based service contracting'a money-saving trend since the early 1990s, the General Accounting Office said today in a report to the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement Policy. The total represents 21 percent of the $135.8 billion agencies spent on services. <br>
What's the effect of the budget impasse?
House and Senate appropriations committees want to know how well agencies can meet the President's Management Agenda goals if they must operate under a long-term continuing resolution. Congress this week passed a continuing resolution to fund the government through Nov. 22, and some observers believe the fiscal 2003 budget will not be settled until February or March.<br>
Red Storm to rise at Energy lab
Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., yesterday announced a $90 million agreement with Cray Inc. of Seattle for a massively parallel processing system to simulate the aging process of nuclear weapons.<br>
Labor renews $59 million CSC contract
The Labor Department issued a task order to Computer Sciences Corp. for continued support of its black lung program.<br>
Former head of NMCI joins Lockheed Martin
<b>Joseph Cipriano</b>, the former program executive officer who oversaw the first steps of the $6.9 billion Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, has joined Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Information Technology division as vice president for advanced solutions.<br>
Adobe e-forms will hold data offline
Adobe Systems Inc. today extended its electronic forms line with Document Server for Reader Extensions. The server software will preserve data entered in form fields in Adobe Portable Document Format, so that citizens and agency users can continue working on the PDF forms offline. That eliminates the print-and-mail steps that are holding up progress of the Government Paperwork Elimination Act, Adobe officials said.<br>
The week's top stories forOct. 14 through Oct. 18
<p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/20313-1.html">Government IT spending will grow 9.7 percent, GEIA predicts</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/20271-1.html">VHA CIO steps down, takes new department job</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/20268-1.html">Wenzel will serve as acting IRS commissioner</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/20256-1.html">TSP record-keeping system delayed again</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/20255-1.html">Sniper victim was on FBI's cybercrime team</a>
75,000 jobs could be outsourced, OMB says
The Office of Management and Budget yesterday released a list of more than 75,000 federal jobs that are not inherently governmental and could be subject to competition under OMB Circular A-76. The list, which came 17 days after fiscal 2002 ended, detailed 242,843 positions at 22 agencies, of which 75,404'31 percent'are commercial in nature.<br>
Government IT spending will grow 9.7 percent, GEIA predicts
Federal IT spending will increase 9.7 percent in fiscal 2003, an industry trade group reported in its annual survey. Total agency IT spending will reach $53.1 billion, split almost evenly between Defense Department and civilian agencies, according to figures released this week by the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association of Arlington, Va.
Matchup: Who said What?
Match these quotes from GCN's past year with the famous people who said them. The issues in which the quotes appeared are in parentheses.1. 'Asking a garrison to do an A-76 is like giving a pig a knife and asking it to make pork chops.'2. 'Prepare for the worst thing you can imagine. Drill and exercise. Overprepare. Even if your plans aren't exactly right, it gives you an advantage.'3. 'I keep hearing 'integration via middleware, integration via middleware, integration via middleware.' This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. It's absurd. It's a nitwit idea, but it's the conventional wisdom.'
PACKET RAT: Rat dodges the Three Bears'baby, market, virus
'Again! Bear!' shouted the Rat's 20-month-old daughter as her 'Bear in the Big Blue House' DVD ended for the 20th time of the day.
'Did you hear...'
<b>Tie Man.</b> The Social Security Administration has launched a nationwide search for the identity of a man wearing a bow tie in a photograph made on Aug. 14, 1935, standing behind President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the signing of the Social Security Act. Visit <a href= "http://www.ssa.gov/history/bowtieman.html">www.ssa.gov/history/bowtieman.html</a> and tell all.
CIO Council has new members from agencies, NASCIO
The CIO Council this month announced new appointments to the council, some of them reflecting changes in agency leadership.
Conference puts the EA pieces on the drafting table
A lot of the government's best plans for electronic services hinge on one thing: developing an enterprise architecture. But that one thing has many facets, and they got a thorough going-over this month at a two-day conference in Washington.
DOD civilians get one-stop human resources info
The Defense Department has finished its phased-in deployment of a modern human resources system that has been in the works since October 1999. The Defense Civilian Personnel Data System is now in use by more than 800,000 civilian employees worldwide to handle all personnel transactions, including benefits inquiries.
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