SEC seeks encryption sources
The Securities and Exchange Commission seeks sources for encryption of all user data on all agency laptops and portable media devices from GSA Schedule holders.
VA to award identity, asset management order to CA
The contract order call for for 50,000 identity and asset management licenses and maintenance support for 2,500 existing IAM licenses.
Financial LOB moves to standardize rules
Agencies will gain a clearer picture next month of how the administration wants them to standardize financial-management activities.
VA orders encrypted data to go
Every Veterans Affairs Department notebook PC and mobile device will have software to encrypt data by mid-September.
Agencies lag on reporting data breaches
Only half of all major agencies have responded to a request from Congress to report any loss or compromise of sensitive personal information since 2003.
GSA to order 100,000 PIV-II cards
The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service seeks proposals for vendors to produce 100,000 personal identity smart cards as part of the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 on behalf of the Social Security Administration.
SEC wants prototypes to access XBRL documents
The Securities and Exchange Commission seeks proposals for a prototype system that will provide a user-friendly environment in which to access documents written in Extensible Business Reporting Language and submitted to the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system.
VA to encrypt notebook PCs
The Veterans Affairs Department immediately will begin to upgrade all of its computers with enhanced data security encryption systems to protect sensitive data on veterans.
Recent breach shines light on need for contractor oversight
The next cybersecurity frontier is ensuring contractors keep government data safe. The Veterans Affairs Department found this out the hard way last week when Unisys Corp., working as a subcontractor, had a desktop computer containing sensitive personal information go missing from the company's offices in Reston, Va.
IT security plans getting personal
The recent spike in reported data breaches prompted the Office of Management and Budget in June to require that agencies enforce existing data security provisions and put new ones in place.
OMB adds improper payments guidance to A-123
The Office of Management and Budget has consolidated and incorporated previous and newly updated guidance on reducing improper payments into its Circular A-123 on internal controls for financial reporting.
E-mail a threat to IRS network: IG
The IRS is at risk for computer viruses because employees are e-mailing chain letters, jokes, sexually oriented content and large graphic or picture files in violation of the agency's personal e-mail use policy.
Financial Management LOB set for major milestones
The General Services Administration expects to deliver initial versions of data standardization and business process transformation next month as part of the Financial Management Line of Business.
GSA awards $121m contract for crop insurance support
The General Services Administration awarded a $121 million task order to Science Applications International Corp. for IT support services for the Agriculture Department to improve its national crop insurance program.
VA to analyze breached data
The Veterans Affairs Department has contracted with ID Analytics to provide data breach analysis to ensure that information contained on computer equipment stolen in May from a VA employee's home and later recovered was not compromised.
Computer stolen from VA subcontractor, Unisys
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font> The Veterans Affairs Department today confirmed that a subcontractor, Unisys Corp., had informed the department that a desktop computer containing sensitive personal information of veterans is missing from the company's offices.
Health IT program stocking the shelves
The inaugural list of 22 certified systems, which became available last month, represents the first concrete results of contracts the Health and Human Services Department awarded in 2005 through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
Treasury awards SunGard accouting contract
The Treasury Department awarded a $13 million contract to SunGard Investment Systems Inc. to provide investment accounting software and support services for the Office of Public Debt Accounting.
CMS awards first combined Medicare claims contract
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded two contracts to process and pay Medicare claims from both hospitals and physicians in six states, and to to maintain the Medicare Fiscal Intermediary Shared System.
HHS removes health IT hurdle
<font color="CC0000">(Updated)</font> The Health and Human Services today announced final rules that should advance the use of electronic health records and electronic prescribing by creating exceptions to fraud-and-abuse laws.
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