SSA again tests PEBES for Web accessibility
The system won't be reinstated until SSA is sure it will provide the best service, SSA's Cheezum said. The Social Security Administration still wants to give citizens access to their Personal Earnings and Benefit Estimate Statements via an interactive Web site. "We're continuing to test and evaluate the PEBES system," SSA spokeswoman Carolyn Cheezum said.
EPA CIO tackles data quality flaws in indexing project
IT workers and data gatherers at EPA offices will help write the data accuracy plan, agency CIO Al Pesachowitz said. The Environmental Protection Agency's chief information officer has a new charge: improve the data quality of EPA's Sector Facility Indexing Project. "There has been a big controversy about the SFIP's data quality," CIO Al Pesachowitz said. "Either the sources or the states have made mistakes in reporting or correcting the records.
USDA says bank errors stalled IMPAC service
Vendors rejected U.S. Bank-issued IMPAC cards when Agriculture users tried to buy supplies, department officials say. Overbilling was partly to blame. Accounting errors and a computer glitch by the provider of its IMPAC credit cards left Agriculture Department employees without use of their cards for three days recently, USDA officials said.
Commerce creates separate CIO organization
Roger Baker, who will become the first chief information officer at the Commerce Department, says that by selecting him, the senior management has indicated its intent to embrace electronic commerce. "I believe my hiring shows the commitment of Secretary William Daley and Commerce to be a fully active participant in the electronic commerce age," he said.
Commerce will supply export licenses via Net
The Bureau of Export Administration will soon let companies apply for export licenses via the Internet. "The Simplified Network Application Processing system uses strong encryption, certification and authentication technologies, as well as provides recovery capabilities," said William Alan Reinsch, undersecretary for export administration at the Commerce Department. "SNAP will reduce paperwork and improve accuracy in the bureau."
BDM will modernize EDGAR for $49 million
Under a three-year, $49 million contract, BDM International Inc. will modernize the electronic filing system it built for the Securities and Exchange Commission. The McLean, Va., company built the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system, one of the government's first expansive electronic filing systems. "The EDGAR modernization will substantially improve the presentation, quality and structure of SEC filings," said Mike Bartell, SEC chief information officer. "Filers will realize reduced costs and effort associated with the preparation
VA creates new chief information post
Keep the focus on veterans, says Harold F. Gracey Jr., VA acting assistant secretary of information and technology. The Veterans Affairs Department has created a new office to oversee systems and telecommunications. The head of the new Office of the Assistant Secretary of Information and Technology will also be VA's chief information officer. Current CIO D. Mark Catlett, who is also the department's chief financial officer, will become the assistant deputy
Commerce innovates to recruit systems workers
If they can't use pay raises to retain information technology workers, federal information managers must find other ways to keep their IT staff members, said Alan Balutis, Commerce Department's deputy chief information officer. Balutis outlined his efforts for retaining IT workers during the Coalition for Government Procurement's spring conference last month.
FAA, foreign delegates discuss, share date code fixes
Federal Aviation Administration officials are working with their international counterparts to help make their systems year 2000-ready, an FAA spokesman said. But some industry observers don't think FAA is moving quickly enough to ensure that data interfaces between the United States and foreign air systems will be ready for 2000 and beyond.
AFFIRM names Flyzik IT exec of year
Treasury CIO James J. Flyzik says that successful IT reinvention programs help employees handle cultural change. James J. Flyzik, the Treasury Department's chief information officer, won the recognition of his peers this month. The Association for Federal Information Resources Management awarded Flyzik, who is also vice chairman of the CIO Council, its information technology executive of the year award. Each year, AFFIRM, a member organization of government systems workers, recognizes outstanding executive leadership in
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