Amendment calls for missing persons database
The Homeland Security Department would be required to set up a new IT system and database for tracking missing persons and reuniting families following major disasters under an amendment approved by the Senate.
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.
North Carolina ends Medicaid pact with ACS
Citing breach of contract, the North Carolina Health and Human Services Department has terminated Affiliated Computer Services Inc.'s contract to deliver a new Medicaid payment system for the Tar Heel State.
Bill would transform VA cybersecurity
The House Veterans' Affairs Committee has drafted legislation to accelerate improvements in information security at the beleaguered Veterans Affairs Department.
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.
Agencies to test ID credentials
The Transportation and the Homeland Security departments will test the interoperability of different identification cards at three ports this week.
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.
No loss of data from VA, USDA breaches
The Veterans Affairs and Agriculture departments have determined that sensitive personal data was not accessed in recent incidents of data threats at both agencies.
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.
Labor needs Intranet search engine
The Labor Department is seeking industry input as it looks for a search engine capable of searching one of the agency's Apache-based Intranet portals.
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.
IRS pays out millions in fraudulent refunds
The federal government has lost as much as $300 million in improper refunds because the contractor developing a Web-based fraud detection system for the IRS failed to deliver it on time.
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.
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