GAO: EPA should make e-recycling mandatory for agencies
The Environmental Protection Agency should require federal agencies to participate in an electronics recycling program in order to increase the number of computers and peripherals recovered by the federal government, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Guidelines for certification are nearly done
The Chief Acquisition Officers Council is reviewing for final approval acquisition workforce certification guidelines for all civilian agencies.
ID card rules will also apply to contractors
Under a soon-to-be issued rule in the Federal Acquisition Regulations, agencies will have to vet contractors through the same processes they put employees before issuing identification cards.
Group devising plan for bulk buys of IT hardware
Agencies spend more than $43 billion annually on cell phones, copiers, office supplies, express delivery services and IT hardware.
For IPv6 transition, 2008 starts now
The Office of Management and Budget and the CIO Council want CIOs, chief architects and program managers to start figuring out the impact of this new technology well before the June 2008 deadline OMB has set for agencies to move to IPv6.
GSA keeps Symplicity for procurement portal redesign
The General Services Administration has decided that Symplicity Corp. of Arlington, Va., will revamp FedBizOpps.gov after all.
DISA's data centers to sell processing
The Defense Information Systems Agency is setting up its 17 data centers to let the military services and Defense Department agencies buy processing on demand.
DOD's architecture work finally gets down to business
The Defense Department has made more progress since the spring than it ever has on improving the management of its business systems.
Defense to test PIV II-compliant access cards
By early next year, the Defense Department expects to have an idea of what bases, and how many, will test new common access cards that meet Federal Identity Processing Standard-201, Personal Identity Verification II.
Acquisition workforce certification guidelines under final review
The Chief Acquisition Officers Council is reviewing for final approval acquisition workforce certification guidelines for all civilian agencies.
CIO Council gives agencies 'chapter 1' for IPv6 implementation
In preparation for the transition to Internet Protocol version 6, agencies should incorporate the new technology into their strategic plans and update their enterprise architectures by February, according to the CIO Council.
OFPP expands SmartBuy approach to IT hardware
After the incremental but growing success of the SmartBuy enterprise software licensing program, the Office of Management and Budget is expanding the concept to IT hardware.
GAO to DOD: Good first step on business architecture
The Defense Department has met or has partially met five of six congressional mandates to improve its business systems modernization efforts, according to the Government Accountability Office.
DISA ready to issue RFP for multibillion-dollar Net-Centric project
The Defense Department will release as early as Monday the request for proposals for converting its legacy systems to the Network Centric Enterprise Services program.
Justice CIO gets control over information-sharing systems funding
Congress earlier this month directed the Justice Department's CIO to take financial control over the agency's information-sharing systems.
OMB readying Version 2.0 of EA assessment framework
Under Federal Enterprise Architecture Assessment Framework 2.0, the Office of Management and Budget will evaluate agency modernization blueprints every three months and tie how agencies are using their EAs to make decisions to their scores on the President's Management Agenda.
OMB looks at shared-service plan for IT security functions
The Office of Management and Budget has lifted the veil on the next set of standardized functions that shared-service providers will supply across government.
GSA readies the gauntlet for agencies' smart cards
With a deadline for having interoperable smart cards a year away, most agency officials expected the General Services Administration to set up a lab to test cards and card readers.
GAO says the USAjobs job goes to Monster
The Government Accountability Office may finally have ended the two-year saga surrounding the refurbishing of the <a href="http://USAJobs.gov">USAJobs.gov</a> Web site.
Decision on smart-card biometrics due soon
The administration is expected to decide as early as next week on the standard type of biometric identification for governmentwide smart cards under HSPD-12.
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