OMB prepares to align financial systems
By month's end, the Office of Management and Budget will release for comment a document that describes an enterprise architecture framework aimed to align agencies' programs with their administrative systems. <br>
CIA veteran named to head terrorism info center
John Brennan, the CIA's deputy executive director, will be the first director of the new Terrorist Threat Information Center, the White House said today.<br>
Navy sets parameters for single portal project
The Navy has released a guide to establish a framework for the Navy-Marine Corps Portal, a single online structure to replace or integrate thousands of Web sites throughout the service. <br>
New Mexico gets ready for HIPAA compliance
As states scramble to meet the April 14 deadline for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's privacy rules, New Mexico is smoothing its way to compliance by focusing on data integration.<br>
Air Force considers abandoning A-76 for outsourcing
The Air Force has had such poor luck running OMB Circular A-76 competitions to outsource IT that the service no longer considers use of the policy beneficial, the service's CIO said today. <br>
Labor upgrades job skills database
The Labor Department yesterday released the Occupational Information Network Online 4.0, an improved version of its database of worker attributes and job characteristics. <br>
Davis calls for specifics for management agenda
Rep. Tom Davis today said he wants to see more details from the administration on how it plans to continue to implement the President's Management Agenda and added that changes to the way the federal work force is paid and evaluated are coming. <br>
Navy forms XML groups
The Navy has adopted groups to coordinate implementation of Extensible Markup Language with the department's systems and applications.<br>
Defense seeks bandwidth-busting vendor
The Defense Department has issued a solicitation that brass said will let the department take the next step in expanding bandwidth to users DOD-wide.<br>
Homeland Security plans to issue firefighter grants
The Homeland Security Department today announced that it would begin accepting applications from fire departments for $750 million in grants, including funds for technology initiatives.<br>
White House updates federal e-gov site
The White House today launched a revamped Web site for e-government projects, organizing information about the 25 Quicksilver initiatives under one portal.<br>
First responders will test wearable computers
Public safety agencies in the Charleston, S.C., area this spring will begin testing wearable computers for use by first-response teams.<br>
Cryptogram: The science is not the technology
The author of the statement below was a logician who created the shortest-path algorithm and the first Algol 60 compiler.
Packet Rat: Homeland Security is short one red sweater
A great weight lifted off the Rat's shoulders when the ratlings returned to an almost normal school schedule. The blizzard of 2003 was melting with only a moderate flood in the lower reaches of the family digs.
Davis reassigns IT oversight to new Government Reform panel
House Government Reform Committee chairman Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) has decided to fold procurement policy oversight back into the full committee, leaving IT issues under one of four new subcommittees.
Conference targets the ABCs of security
If the essence of security is in diligence and details, training and awareness are key at government agencies. And that was the focus last week at the 16th Annual Conference of the Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association in Silver Spring, Md. FISSEA cosponsored the conference with the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
People on the Move
President Bush has named <b>Mark Forman</b>, the Office of Management and Budget's associate director for IT and e-government, to be administrator of the White House Office of E-Government.
Terror center sparks Hill skepticism
Lawmakers last month voiced skepticism about Bush administration plans for a new Terrorism Threat Integration Center that can merge counterterrorism data gathered by the government's intelligence agencies.
Labor stats office turns to new metrics tool
An office in the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects to start using new metrics software to assess how economists collect employee wage, earnings and benefits data from thousands of companies nationwide.<br>
NSA notches up security credentials
International Systems Security Consortium will develop and administer a new test for information security professionals interested in working for the National Security Agency.<br>
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