OMB wants 'all solutions' to help drive down federal IT costs
With the government spending nearly $65 billion a year on IT products and services, federal officials are urging industry executives to offer innovative ideas as the administration begins work on developing the new IT infrastructure Line of Business.
Robert Gellman | @Info.Policy: 72-hour rule could foster a web of deceit
A coalition trying to curb the passage of legislation without effective public notice is pushing to have Congress post each bill on the Web for 72 hours before it can be brought up for debate on the floor.
Wyatt Kash | Editor's Desk: Pure serendipity
Technology breakthroughs are often not rooted in the invention of new devices as much as they are in the exploitation of new insights into the way people and processes work. All those white ear buds sprouting from commuters' ears offer one case in point.
Ray Ozzie | Behind Microsoft's Groove-iness
Little more than a year ago, something happened that used to happen frequently in IT: Microsoft Corp. snapped up a promising company. But Groove Networks Inc. was more than just a collaboration software developer; it was increasingly well known for its government deployments, including data-sharing projects at the Defense and Homeland Security departments.
GAO hits agency info-sharing policy
Federal policies for information-sharing against terrorism are fragmented and haphazardly applied, according to a recent Government Accountability Office <a href=http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06385.pdf>report</a>.
With money to spend, governors talk up IT
Health care and interoperable communications are areas where governors say they want to see IT improvements, and they are ready to spend big money on IT projects.
Governors seek new safeguards for data
With technology rapidly outpacing policy, major improvements are needed at the state level to better protect sensitive criminal and civil justice information, according to the National Governors Association's Center for Best Practices.
CMS taps EDS for data center work
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded a new task order to EDS Corp. to help consolidate agency data center operations that support mainframe and client server applications.
Army, Air Force ink deals with AT&T
The Army and the Air Force have awarded contracts totaling nearly $8 million to AT&T Government Solutions.
Richard P. Tracy | A CISO's full plate in 2006
This year promises to deliver a full plate of significant IT challenges for federal chief information security officers, who will be looking to create efficiencies within their organizations to free money and manpower that can be spent on new and emerging requirements.
Multinational force tests collaboration
In the world of massively multiplayer online role-playing games, it is common for thousands'even tens of thousands'of players to participate. By that measure, the Joint Forces Command's recent three-week exercise, Multinational Experiment 4, or MNE4 for short, was small potatoes; it had about 800 participants. On the other hand, MNE4's participants were Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, plus NATO.
GSA HSPD-12 testing lab makes progress
The General Services Administration's lab to test vendor products for interoperability under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 and Federal Information Processing Standard 201 is ready to review products in six categories.
Agencies want bold ideas for new LOBs
If anyone wanted a chance to help the government shape how it formulates and executes budgets and uses geospatial information in the future, this is your opportunity.
Software insecurity: Plenty of blame to go around
The reason software so often is not secure is the fault either of developers or of users'or both.
Qui Tam Law: The Whistleblower's Sword
Frauds committed against the E-Rate program often are addressed under federal and state qui tam, or whistleblower, laws that allow private citizens to recover part of the funds that a company or individual has taken from the government by fraud.
RFP checklist: Security information management
Looking to deploy a security information management solution? Before sending out an RFP or RFI, experts say you should consider the following.
IG sees flaws in DHS' approach to interoperability standards
The Homeland Security Department faces numerous challenges in effectively promoting interoperable communication standards for first responders, according to inspector general Richard Skinner.
Navy selects vendor for sub combat systems
The Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. a $17.4 million contract to support a program that oversees all technical products for submarine combat systems.
Portman in line to be OMB director
President Bush this morning announced he is nominating a former congressman to take the helm at the Office of Management and Budget.
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