People on the move
Veterans Affairs Department chief information security officer Pedro Cadenas Jr. is leaving his job, effective July 13.
House calls for single grants database
The House has passed legislation to establish a public database for tracking federal grants, a move that advocates say will bring a new level of transparency tothe government grant-making process.
Surveys: HSPD-12 plans lag
Two recent surveys signaled just how much agencies and vendors are struggling to implement Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12. The biggest area of trouble identified by federal IT security executives and systems integrators was physical-access control.
USDA acts fast to fight soybean rust infection
An online early warning system the Agriculture Department put in place to help growers fight an infection targeting U.S. soybean crops has, by some estimates, saved farmers hundreds of millions of dollars.
IT comfort food (and no strained soup puns)
We scoured government and industry for a bad word about NASA's Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement contract that counts 400,000-plus products in its catalog'and were hard-pressed to find one.
NGA awards Smarts deals
Six companies will compete for work under the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's recently awarded, $200 million Support to Management and Resources for Technical Services program.
DARPA seeks leap in communications tech
Two-year, 3.45 million contract includes milestones that can bring the total value of the award to $5.8 million.
An array of options
To keep up with the ballooning need for data storage, agencies are increasingly looking to storage arrays. And it is not just the data growth that is driving array adoption.
Survey: Value drives state/local IT purchasing
State and local government IT executives said that price, service and response time are their most important criteria when making IT purchasing decisions.
The Pipeline
Storage to the Maximus; That makes sense
Something phishy
Integrated application assurance provide broad security coverage of an entire appliation "stack," including Web servers, databases and Web services.
GPO wants feedback as IG office modernizes
The Government Printing Office is gauging industry interest in helping the agency's inspector general improve its auditing abilities over the next several years.
Health IT group recommends initial standards
The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel has identified and recommended 90 initial standards that will let patient data be securely exchanged in a nationwide health information network.
Joanne Woytek | Staying on course with SEWP
Joanne Woytek is the program manager for NASA's Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement govenrmentwide acquisition contract'one of only four true GWACs authorized by the Office of Management and Budget.
The science of SEWP
Federal IT purchasing contracts, like taxes, are a necessary evil not normally the object of rapturous elegies by their users. Which is why the near-total admiration expressed by a sampling of people who use the governmentwide acquisition contract run by NASA invites skepticism.
Web-based coach helps laid-off workers
Development InfoStructure, or Devis, announced last week the launch of an online helper tool for workers affected by Base Realignment and Closure actions. Dubbed the BRAC Coach, it was developed for the Department of Labor. The coaches sit as additional frames on top of existing government websites and give users
Acquisition councils finalize EVM rule
Federal acquisition officials finalized a rule, effective today, that details how agencies should implement an earned-value management system for managing major acquisitions.
OMB updates HSPD-12 procurement guidelines
Agencies have until Aug. 30 to tell the General Services Administration's Federal Acquisition Service if they will need assisted services to comply with Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.
NIST revamps crypto requirements for PIV cards
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has revised guidelines for the cryptographic elements on new smart government ID cards, which agencies are scheduled to begin issuing in October.
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