HHS budget focuses on bioterror, e-health efforts
Health and Human Services would receive $5.3 billion for IT next year, nearly 2 percent more than it expects to spend this year.
VA will examine future of troubled financial project
Veterans Affairs has hired PricewaterhouseCoopers to scrutinize its financial management project, CoreFLS.
FinCEN to deploy data-sharing system
The Treasury agency will launch a system March 1 so law enforcement and financial institutions can share information about people suspected of financing terrorist activities.
Settlement on much-protested deal frees HUD to modernize IT
With its hands now untied, the Housing and Urban Development Department can implement its IT modernization.
Patent office will get continued systems help from CSC
The Patent and Trademark Office awarded Computer Sciences Corp. a $280 million contract to continue providing systems development and integration, testing and training for modernizing business processes.
NIH to make research publicly accessible
The agency is asking scientists to make their biomedical research results available through a searchable database within 12 months of publication.
HUD awards customer service contract to Premier
The Housing and Urban Development Department has awarded a $19 million contract for a contact management system.
Lockheed wins $1.9 billion A-76 deal with FAA
The Federal Aviation Administration has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. to provide services that the agency currently performs, following an OMB A-76 competition.
FDA to upgrade reporting system for drug reactions
The Food and Drug Administration seeks industry information about how to build a more comprehensive version of its Adverse Event Reporting System.
Transportation CFO selected to be nation's controller
President Bush has nominated Linda Combs to be controller of the Office of Federal Financial Management at the Office of Management and Budget.
Lockheed Martin wins $1.9 billion A-76 competition at FAA
The Federal Aviation Administration has selected Lockheed Martin to take over automated flight services following an OMB A-76 review.
DOD supply app to manage medical supplies on the battlefield
Doctors serving wounded and sick soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq should get the medical supplies they need thanks to a new feature the Defense Department is developing for its medical supplies support application.
New HUD IT chief to start Monday
DOT's Lisa Schlosser will take over as CIO for the Housing and Urban Development Department on Monday.
PTO puts trademark application files online
The Patent and Trademark Office is now making official trademark application files, including decisions by trademark examining attorneys, available online.
CMS proposes e-prescribing standards
Electronic prescribing lets physicians digitally transmit prescriptions to pharmacies and obtain drug plan eligibility information.
EDS, Lockheed Martin to split HUD $800m IT contract
The department avoided continued protests by awarding the lucrative HITS contract to both bidders.
CMS to track Medicare drug benefit costs
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to build an efficient framework to track seniors' out-of-pocket expenses under Medicare's new drug benefit.
HUD seeks PeopleSoft integrators
The Housing and Urban Development Department needs help in deploying and testing PeopleSoft financial management software for the Federal Housing Administration Subsidiary Ledger.
Report: IRS underestimates IT security weaknesses
The process the IRS has used to track IT program and system security weaknesses is flawed and ineffective, the Treasury Inspector General said.
Payment compliance system will target tax deadbeats
The IRS plans to collect more delinquent payments from taxpayers by implementing a filing and payment compliance system.
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