GovBenefits to let agencies brand own benefits pages
GovBenefits.gov today celebrated its third year by adding more than 600 programs from federal, state and local governments.
IRS recasts modernization in light of leaner budgets
Tighter budgets are forcing the IRS to recast and refocus its Business Systems Modernization, GAO told Congress.
Florida tries to revive anti-terror database
Florida is considering a successor to the controversial Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange law enforcement database that shut down April 15.
Packet Rat: Rat rounds up a copy of Longhorn, but where's the beef?
'Promises, promises,' the Rat sighed as he watched his covert video stream from Microsoft's WinHEC hardware developers' conference last week.
The Community: A piece of the past
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Navy and Northrop Grumman Corp. are collaborating with the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Va., on recreating a bit of high-tech weaponry from 143 years ago: the USS Monitor. More than 100 Northrop Grumman employees are putting together the replica of the Civil War ironclad ship, which will anchor the $30 million USS Monitor Center at the museum.
'Did you hear...'
<b>The Law of More</b>. Last week, we mentioned the April 19, 1965, issue of Electronics Magazine quoting Gordon Moore, who went on to co-found Intel Corp. and become famous for formulating Moore's Law.
GovBenefits to let agencies design their own front pages
Instead of giving agencies one benefits portal, the Labor Department's e-government project will let agencies create their own benefits Web pages and use a search filter to integrate with GovBenefits' back-end database and rules engine.
DIA gets down to business on consolidating IT operations
PHILADELPHIA'The Defense Intelligence Agency wants its IT directorate to function like a business and plans to start by consolidating IT operations.
Cooper to face familiar technology issues at Red Cross
Former DHS CIO Steven I. Cooper, who will join the American Red Cross on Monday, will be managing an IT infrastructure of national importance in the face of public scrutiny.-
NSA finalizing GIG assurance policy
SALT LAKE CITY'The long-anticipated information assurance policy for the Defense Department's Global Information Grid is in its final stages, ac-cording to a senior DOD IT official.
Disaster software standards may get muscle from DHS
The Homeland Security Department could supercharge emergency management software standards by requiring the department's grantees to purchase compliant equipment.
GSA's Perry: Let a few agencies do most of the buying
The federal government should centralize its buying around a few agencies, except for unique procurements such as weapons systems, the chief of the General Services Administration has said.
Share-in-savings regulations will receive one more review
Office of Federal Procurement Policy officials admit they dropped the ball in getting share-in-savings off the ground and have fumbled again in their attempts to fix it.
DOD reels in SmartBuy deal with Oracle
The Defense Department has placed more than 700 orders, worth $500 million, over the past six years under their agencywide enterprise software license contract with Oracle Corp.
As GAO watches, IRS works to patch security holes
The IRS, caught in a thicket of IT security problems, is hoping to be mostly out the woods by fall.
People on the move
<b>Robert J. Garrity Jr.</b> has been named the FBI's deputy CIO and business process re-engineering executive
OMB looks for more functions to merge
The administration's next set of initiatives targeted for consolidation are coming into focus.
NMCI launches ship status tool for maintenance
A Navy software application that gives a snapshot of the maintenance status of surface ships is undergoing final tests to run on the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet and is expected to go into operation this month.
Bill promotes DHS' chief of cybersecurity
A House subcommittee late last month approved a bill that would elevate the Homeland Security Department's cybersecurity director to the level of an assistant secretary in the Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate.
DOD wants unique ID tags on all products
The Defense Department is requiring contractors to mark items delivered under Defense contracts with unique identification tags.
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