EAC considers new voting system guidelines
The Election Assistance Commission is considering changes to voting system guidelines that could beef up security for the systems.
Nemx seeks fed resellers
The company's SecurExchange product monitors circulating Microsoft Exchange e-mail.
House committee likely to cut HealtheVet funds
A House Appropriations panel has stripped funding for VA's new hospital computing system because the agency provided no details about how it would spend the money.
Sentinel project to replace FBI's abandoned Virtual Case File effort
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED)</font> ' The FBI is poised to launch what it calls the Sentinel project to build, among other things, a case management system to replace the defunct Virtual Case File system.
HHS provides $1.3b in state bioterror funds
The Health and Human Services Department has made available $1.3 billion to states and large metropolitan areas to strengthen their ability to respond to emergencies.
PACKET RAT: Sun's swing toward open-source knocks the Rat for a loop
The house was full at the Reagan Federal Building auditorium for Sun Microsystems' quarterly 'Network Computing' road show'which is what happens every time someone mentions a free lunch in Washington.
The community: Merger talks
The respective bosses of the Federal Technology Service and the Federal Supply Service talked about the organizations' pending merger during a session at the FSI 20th Annual Federal Outlook Conference held on April 12 in McLean, Va. FTS acting commissioner Barbara Shelton, left, and FSS commissioner Donna Bennett joined a lineup of other speakers in looking at what lies ahead for IT and procurement in the government.
PDF user slip-up gives DOD lesson in protecting classified information
The mishandling of an Adobe Portable Document Format memo exposed not only classified information on the Web, but the risks involved when users fail to use software tools correctly.
HHS, Congress begin push for health care IT
The Health and Human Services Department and House and Senate lawmakers last week kicked off campaigns to press for adoption of health care IT.
Navy gives Godwin additional NMCI oversight responsibilities
The Navy's assistant secretary for research, development and acquisition has named Rear Adm. James Godwin the direct-reporting program manager for Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.
Bill seeks a DOD manager to tackle business system woes
For more than a decade, Congress has warned Defense Department leaders to get a better handle on their business systems.
Davis' bill would pare down GSA's regional offices
In merging the Federal Technology and Federal Supply services, the General Services Administration will likely make significant cuts to the management ranks of the services' 22 regional offices.
IRS announces Lambert's appointment as CFO
The IRS has appointed Janice Lambert as chief financial officer, making her responsible for the agency's $10 billion annual operating budget.
New office will try to keep IRS project specs in line
Before the IRS' new taxpayer database finally saw the light of day last year, it had to be cured of an extreme case of scope creep.
Real-time alert services are added to US-CERT portal
The U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team is painting a bigger picture of Internet security by adding real-time threat and vulnerability information to the Web portal used by the government's cybersecurity first responders.
Case management projects and shared-data standard gather steam
The Justice Department and the FBI are looking to set a standard by which law enforcement officials can more easily share information and let other agencies develop similar systems based on the requirements.
People on the Move
The Air Force has tapped <b>Lt. Gen. William T. 'Tom' Hobbins</b> to be the new head of the service's merged CIO, warfighting integration and communications operations directorate.
USDA issues draft plan for animal IDs
The Agriculture Department has released a draft plan for tracking animal movements to speed its response to potential outbreaks such as mad-cow disease.
IG says DHS' secure network was too rushed
The Homeland Security Department's $337 million network for sharing top-secret data was developed in a rush and, as a result, is inadequate to meet the needs of its users, according to a new report by the department's acting inspector general, Richard L. Skinner.
Treasury IG gets on IRS' business cases
IRS officials should not rely on the data in some of their recent business cases to manage and fund IT projects, inspector general auditors have found.
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