Data sharing is the missing link to trapping money launderers
Agencies are beginning to share data they have collected and analyzed about money laundering and terror-financing activities, but they still have far to go, according to a recent Treasury Department report.
When money moves
Investigating agencies, such as the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and IRS-CI, use analytic software that can dig deeper and more broadly through the sea of data to discern patterns of money laundering and terror financing.
CMS awards $1.9 billion enterprise data centers contract
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded a contract worth up to $1.9 billion over 10 years for the agency's new enterprise data centers.
VA CIO resigns over pace of IT changes
Veterans Affairs CIO Robert McFarland's patience has run out. With VA's executive leadership not moving fast enough on IT reorganization, McFarland resigned effective April 30.
OMB fleshes out agency financial management road map
The Office of Management and Budget will release a migration guidance document for public comment at the end of this month.
Bleak fiscal future demands efficient agencies: Walker
U.S. comptroller general David Walker advised some tough love for the Defense Department.
OPM expects HR LOB migrations to accelerate this year
<font color="CC0000"><b>(UPDATED)</b></font>The Office of Personnel Management anticipates that the agencies that have moved their human resources needs to a shared service center will accelerate the shift by others to shared services.
Bush nominates Cox for HUD's top finance job
President Bush has nominated John Cox to be chief financial officer at the Housing and Urban Development Department.
CMS to test feasibility of e-personal health records
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is seeking proposals for a feasibility test to transport Medicare claims data information into personal electronic health records for its beneficiaries.
VA to hold up new projects until IT restructuring is done
The Veterans Affairs Department will take a 'strategic pause' in developing new systems and functionality until 2008 while it reorganizes its IT structure to put budget authority under the department CIO.
OMB directs agencies to name senior geospatial official
The Office of Management and Budget is directing major agencies to designate within 45 days a senior agency official for geospatial information, according to Clay Johnson, OMB's deputy director for management.
Insurers to give feds e-health records in new bill
Health IT legislation that Rep. Jon Porter (R-Nev.) has introduced aims to improve the health care of 8 million federal workers and their families by providing electronic health records for them.
Education extends contract supporting student aid program
The Education Department awarded Accenture LLP a three-year, $179 million contract extension for operation and maintenance of the Office of Federal Student Aid's Direct Loan and Pell Grant processing system.
FDA gets enterprising with new search tool
Scientists who review new drug applications for the Food and Drug Administration face a long, winding road in finding all the information they need. FDA has 23 searchable libraries or databases, containing more than 5 million documents and 34GB of indexes.
VA plans CoreFLS successor
The Veterans Affairs Department has returned to the drawing board and is planning a new financial and logistics program to succeed where its Core Financial and Logistics System failed, a VA official said today.
Dave Combs | Enterprise efforts are in tune at USDA
Agriculture CIO Dave Combs, who took the reins last summer, has had a career as varied as USDA's business lines.
Feds showed e-Gov progress during '05 hurricane season
Federal agencies made use of a number of e-government initiatives in the wake of Hurricane Katrina last year, demonstrating their ability to find and provide information and services electronically and more efficiently.
IRS needs to tighten security settings: TIGTA
The IRS has not consistently maintained the security settings it established and deployed under a common operating environment, resulting in a high risk of exploitation for some of its computers, according to the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration.
Education to modernize school, lender management operations
The Education Department seeks to develop a system for an integrated partner management system to support enrollment and oversight of schools and lenders in the Federal Student Aid program.
Information-sharing underlies agencies' strategies
Agencies are focusing this year and next year on ways to extract and share data through modernizing and consolidating infrastructure, as well as making better use of the information that is collected through business processes.
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