Interior names acting CIO
Fish and Wildlife CIO Michael Howell reeled up to be acting CIO for Interior.
HHS re-ups Thomson health care database contract
The Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research awarded Thomson Medstat a contract renewal to build and support the next version of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project.
HUD to identify rental housing e-listings for emergencies
The Housing and Urban Development Department is looking for Web-based rental-housing locators interested in making their electronic listings available to the government during national emergencies.
Social Security taps RSA for HSPD-12 card management
The Social Security Administration awarded RSA a contract through GSA for card management services to support compliance with HSPD-12.
Labor seeks HRLOB provider
The Labor Department seeks a public or private shared-services provider for its Human Resources Line of Business to replace its current HR and payroll systems.
Bush signs two environmental laws
President Bush signed into law two environmental bills, one to provide forecasts of drought conditions to avoid or reduce agricultural damage and costs, and one to track the amount of energy that computers consume.
Treasury drops $1b TCE contract
The Treasury Department has pulled the plug on its controversial $1 billion Treasury Communications Enterprise contract after years of contention with the Bush administration and Congress over going it alone.
NASA, Google dock for data, image online sharing
NASA will make space exploration data and images easily available on the Internet through an agreement with Google Inc.
VA names acting IT policy and portfolio oversight chief
VA has named Clarenton Furlow as acting associate deputy assistant secretary for policy, portfolio oversight and execution.
FDA seeks views for e-submission platform
The Food and Drug Administration plans to completely move to electronic submissions of reporting for regulated drug products and to create a common electronic platform to exchange data.
Federal financial report reveals ongoing reliability gaps
Agencies continue to struggle with major weaknesses in financial reporting in the first year that they have had to account for internal controls, the Treasury Department said in its fiscal 2006 Financial Report of the U.S. Government.
Buyer: VA IT centralization a model for other agencies
Rep. Steve Buyer is singing a new tune about the Veterans Affairs Department and Secretary Jim Nicholson.
Key House panel may take new tack on IT
House Government Reform Committee may change its approach to federal IT under the leadership of Rep. Henry Waxman, viewing IT more as a policy tool instead of an industry sector fundamental to accelerating the transformation of government.
HHS to focus on states, RHIOs for next steps to health IT network
HHS will pursue contracts next year for trial implementations that will include state and regional health information organization exchange efforts to advance capabilities for the Nationwide Health Information Network.
VA IT reorg generates focus on requirements
As the Veterans Affairs Department reorganizes its IT staff under the department CIO, VA must identify who is to define requirements for applications development.
IRS broadens Free File
The IRS revised an agreement with the Free File Alliance of tax preparation software vendors to expand the taxpayers eligible next year for free electronic filing.
HHS to pursue health IT network pilots
HHS will seek proposals in 2007 to create trial implementations for the Nationwide Health Information Network and work toward integrating them with the broader network initiative.
FDA has new commissioner
The Senate has confirmed Andrew von Eschenbach to become commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
FDA forces the issue on drug tracking
After years of prodding drugmakers to adopt electronic track-and-trace technology, the Food and Drug Administration has decided to push.
IT at the core of many GAO oversight areas
The Government Accountability Office's recent report to Congress on the top concerns facing government recommends more oversight of federal IT management than might be apparent at first glance.
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