Oates becomes Boston's CIO
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino appointed William Oates this week.
Texas installs cameras along U.S.-Mexico border
The state of Texas will spend $5 million to place hundreds of video cameras along its border with Mexico that will broadcast surveillance footage on the Internet to help prevent crime and illegal border crossings.
GPO to assist agencies in PIV card production
The Government Printing Office is looking to establish a repository that will manufacture, personalize and issue Personal Identity Verification cards for smaller agencies.
2010 census may be forced back to paper
Problems with the census' employment of hand-held mobile computing devices (MCD) could force the 2010 census back into year-2000 style paper canvassing system, said a Government Accountability Office official.
Q&A: Roger Waldron | GSA plans the schedule's next chapter
Roger Waldron is acting senior procurement executive and acting deputy chief acquisition officer for GSA. He directs procurement and acquisition policy on all Federal Supply Service contracts, including the Federal Supply Service IT Schedule, known as Schedule 70.
GSA cleans up processes that led to $900m accounting problems
The General Services Administration has changed policies and standardized processes so it can achieve a clean audit this year after statements about its accounting of $900 million in budgetary resources sank last year's audit.
Ervin: DHS fails security mission
The Homeland Security Department has failed in its mission to secure the country from attacks in key security areas, such as aviation, ports, mass transit, borders, intelligence, emergency preparedness and response, and cybersecurity, according to one former DHS inspector general.
Encryption from the database to the laptop PC
Vendor initiatives abound for securing sensitive data.
The Pipeline
How to manage?; Gonna wipe that data right off my hard drive
Army awards $72 million contract to DataPath
The company will provide specialized portable satellite earth terminals and support services to the U.S. Joint Forces in Iraq.
GPO seeks vendor to run D.C. identity card facility
The cards are part of a Homeland Security Presidential Directive requiring agencies to issue standard ID credentials to all employees and contractors.
Agencies taking aim at HSPD-12 management obstacles
As agencies await approved products and services under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12, another significant barrier to completing the administration's mandate remains: establishing a trust among agencies to accept each other's cards.
Agencies make COOP, disaster recovery even higher priorities
Federal and state IT officials are insisting that continuity of operations plans and disaster recovery strategies be part of all agency systems in the wake of last year's hurricanes and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Active-duty personnel at risk from VA data breach
The Veterans Affairs Department said that personal information on as many as 1.1 million active-duty military personnel was included in electronic data that was taken in the burglary of the home of a VA data analyst.
DOD moves forward with Defense Knowledge Online
The Army and the Defense Information Systems Agency are moving forward with the vision of a single enterprise service online portal for all of the Defense Department.
Homeland Security CTO Holcomb to retire
Lee Holcomb, the Homeland Security Department's longtime chief technology officer, yesterday informed federal CIOs via a memo that he plans to retire June 30.
IRS missing laptop with employee data
The IRS said that one of its laptops containing data about 291 IRS employees and job applicants went missing in early May when it was lost in transit to an agency event.
The ups and downs of Schedule 70
When any of the 12 bureaus that make up the Commerce Department need to order PCs or services such as programming, chances are their procurement officers will use the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service's IT Schedule 70. Schedule 70, which offers millions of pieces of general-purpose IT equipment, software and professional services to other agencies through more than 5,000 vendors, has been around since the mid-1970s.
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