Again, Davis pushes Treasury on TCE
Once again, Tom Davis is getting tough with the Treasury Department. The Virginia Republican and chairman of the House Government Reform Committee told a packed crowd in Washington last week that if Treasury awards its controversial stand-alone telecommunications contract, he will seek to cut funding for the deal.
Privacy officers want to go public
Federal privacy officers want to move beyond the policy enforcement role they gained under the 2002 E-Government Act and other laws to position themselves as promoters of their agencies' IT missions.
Labor's deal could prove financial LOB's worth
The theory behind the Financial Management Line of Business Consolidation initiative is that an agency could outsource, at a minimum, the hosting of its hardware and software, save money and focus on its core mission. But until now, a major agency had yet to prove this premise.
OPM to issue RFP for private-sector HR providers
An interagency task force led by the Office of Personnel Management will put interested private-sector providers through the same paces for human resources management as it did for agencies to qualify as centers of excellence under the HR Line of Business Consolidation.
TSA restructures worker ID procurement
The Homeland Security Department has restructured a pending contract for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential by limiting the scope of the initial implementation to just the enrollment of eligible workers.
OFPP developing emergency contracting database
Robert Burton, acting Office of Federal Procurement Policy administrator, said the Homeland Security Department and the General Services Administration are collecting information on existing contracts that agencies could tap to buy products and services in an emergency.
GSA closes in on SmartBuy deal with Telos
The General Services Administration has announced it is close to an enterprisewide software deal with Telos Corp. of Ashburn, Va., for information assurance and automated message-handling system products.
Has the Defense Travel System arrived?
The Defense Department's online travel booking system is on track to reach 11,000 sites with a capability to scale to 3.2 million users by the time it becomes fully operational in September.
GSA lab is ready for HSPD-12 product testing
The General Services Administration's lab is ready to test six categories of vendor products for interoperability under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12.
Panel mulls shared services for HSPD-12 credentials
About 80 percent of federal employees work at 120 locations outside of Washington. And they all will need interoperable credentials under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12. The Office of Management and Budget has said agencies must determine the risks for each of their offices in deciding how quickly they implement the mandate.
XBRL could make A-123 reports easier
Federal financial and IT executives risk falling behind their commercial-sector counterparts by being slow to develop the use of Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) in their financial-reporting systems.
OMB makes a bid for best value
The Office of Management and Budget's renewed offensive to promote competitive sourcing is taking a page out of the e-government playbook.
CIS' Martin heads to intel CIO shop
Tarrazzia Martin, the acting CIO of Citizenship and Immigration Services, will transfer and begin work Monday for Dale Meyerrose, who runs the CIO Office for the Director of National Intelligence.
Army awards deals under IMOD program
The Army awarded contracts to 10 businesses today under its $4 billion, Infrastructure Modernization program.
Even with Brailer set to leave, health IT efforts locked in
The next national health IT coordinator will likely have it easier than outgoing coordinator David Brailer, who shaped the position from scratch, initially with no funding, to lead the federal effort to promote electronic health records.
WiFi is taking flight
Tucked in a corner of an airplane hangar in Iraq, an Air Force mechanic is repairing a plane's hydraulic landing gear system when he needs to refer to the aircraft's maintenance manual. He pulls out a tablet computer to access the LAN. Within minutes, he has downloaded the information he needs from a U.S.-based database and is back to work.
Denett's work cut out for him at OFPP
If approved by the Senate, he'd likely start with workforce training and improving relations
Portman's Hill experience seen as an asset
If last fall was any sign of what the future holds for e-government and IT on Capitol Hill, Rob Portman's experience as a member of the House will serve him and federal agencies well.
CD security comes easy
Burning files to compact disk has become a popular way to disseminate information. Unfortunately, since anyone with a CD drive can access any disk they get their hands on, this medium has been ill-suited for proprietary or confidential files.
A desktop in laptop clothing
The Alienware MJ-12 m7700a is the latest and greatest power notebook from a company better known for creating gaming rigs. (So well known, in fact, that Dell Inc. bought them.)
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