Agencies debate how much data is needed on HSPD-12 cards
Agencies are banding together to try to get the White House not to include the electronic National Agency Check indicator on the Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 identification smart card.
GSA close to SmartBuy deal with Telos for two titles
The General Services Administration earlier this week announced they are close to an enterprisewide software deal with Telos Corp. of Ashburn, Va., for their information assurance and automated message handling system titles.
Step-by-step migration
With the Office of Management and Budget expecting more agencies to migrate over the next few years to shared-services providers'otherwise known as centers of excellence'for human resources and financial management, the Housing and Urban Development Department's successful migration to the Treasury Department's HR Connect presents a valuable case study.
GSA HSPD-12 testing lab makes progress
The General Services Administration's lab to test vendor products for interoperability under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 and Federal Information Processing Standard 201 is ready to review products in six categories.
EEOC hires Interior's NBC for finance management
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has re-upped with the Interior Department's National Business Center for financial-management services.
Cross-Agency Exercise Proves HSPD-12 Model
The Defense and Homeland Security departments, along with first responders from Maryland and Virginia, recently showed just how important trust is under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.
Agencies shore up as hurricane season looms
This hurricane season, things will be different, federal officials are promising.For one thing, information sharing will improve, they say: from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's use of the Global Positioning System to track the flow of food, water, medical supplies and other important items, to weekly meetings of law enforcement officials across all levels of government.
Deals & Deadlines
The General Services Administration has issued requests for information for the Geospatial and IT Infrastructure Lines of Business and set industry days in Washington April 18 and 19.
OMB wants EAs integrated
Agencies are drowning in the alphabet soup of cross-agency initiatives'from IPv6 to HSPD-12 to LOBs to e-government'trying to figure out how they fit in with their overall missions. For the past four years, the Office of Management and Budget has pushed and prodded CIOs and their staffs to complete their enterprise architectures to show how their systems fit together, what technologies are being used and how the agency plans to improve their missions using new technology. But somewhere amid the flood of administration mandates, the ability to combine them into their EAs either was lost or just didn't develop.
RFI issued for Budget Line of Business
The General Services Administration has released the final request for information for Budget Formulation under the three new Lines of Businesses Consolidation initiative ' three business days before the industry day.
Thornton to leave OMB
Jeanette Thornton, the government's policy lead for E-authentication and Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12, is leaving government for the private sector, the Office of Management and Budget confirmed.
Senate moves GSA reorg a big step forward
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee approves plan matching a House one to overhaul the agency.
GSA issues RFI for IT Infrastructure LOB
The General Services Administration has issued a request for information for the IT Infrastructure Line of Business and set April 19 for an industry day in Washington.
Most agency EAs pass rigorous 2.0 assessment
Agencies passed their toughest test yet in proving their enterprise architectures are complete, are being used and are producing results.
Bush to nominate Doan for GSA administrator
The White House today said President Bush plans to nominate Lurita Alexis Doan as the next administrator of the General Services Administration.
OMB's Clay Johnson predicts e-government's future
By the time the Bush administration leaves office in 2008, all 25 original E-Government initiatives should be fully implemented.
Agencies push toward portfolio management for lines of businesses
As agencies prepare their fiscal 2008 budget submissions, the Office of Management and Budget is expecting fewer business cases and more use of portfolio management, according to one federal CIO.
Employees' A-76 winning percentage dropped in 2005, OMB to report
Agency success in winning public-private competitions dropped to 60 percent in 2005 from 90 percent in 2004.
OMB closes FEAMS for Core.gov
The Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office is shutting down one IT project repository that wasn't being used in favor of another that is hardly being used.
Justice, DOD better prepared to share information for '06 hurricane season
With approximately 60 days before the start of the next hurricane season, Congress is questioning whether agencies are in better shape to share information this year.
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