At long last, it's Lockheed for electronic archives
The National Archives and Records Administration chose Lockheed Martin Corp. to build the $308 million Electronic Records Archive system.
Education Department has big plans in 2006
At least four requests for proposals for IT systems are in the works, and a new system to give agency analysts more information about how school systems spend federal money is scheduled to come online.
Agencies, OMB pushing security requirements through contracts
As the new CIO of the Housing and Urban Development Department, Lisa Schlosser is on a mission to improve the agency's cybersecurity.
SBA taps McClam as acting CIO
The Small Business Administration has elevated Charles T. McClam to acting CIO.
Standard issue
Public-private partnership pushes for standards to help grease the wheels of grant-making systems.
OMB to put private sector in play on Lines of Business
OPM is the first big agency to move to shared-service provider.
As decision on ERA system looms, NARA creates advisory committee
The National Archives and Records Administration will establish an Advisory Committee on Electronic Records Archives to advise the national archivist on technical, mission and services issues.
GSA issues RFI for database to share terrorism information
The General Services Administration is asking industry to provide a governmentwide, searchable database of information, organizations, services and personnel related to each agency's mission in the war on terrorism.
OPM signs up with Bureau of Public Debt for financial services
The Office of Personnel Management has become the first large agency to move to a center of excellence under the Financial Management Line of Business Consolidation initiative.
GSA sets deadlines for new FTS, FSS orders for 2005
The fiscal year may end Sept. 30, but agencies only have until Sept. 1 to send new task orders through the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service.
Hill turns up the heat on DOD to improve procurement controls
Lawmakers and auditors are questioning the Defense Department's ability to manage its own procurement and in some cases requiring more rigor than the federal government has seen in a decade.
OPM's IT staff keeps work in-house with A-76 win
Fifty-two Office of Personnel Management IT workers in Macon, Ga., determined they could save about $900,000 over five years by re-engineering how they do their jobs.
OPM finalizes rule for IT Exchange program
Three years after the E-Government Act established a program for senior federal IT employees to gain experience in the private sector, the Office of Personnel Management has finalized how the program works.
GSA sets deadlines for new FTS, FSS orders for 2005
The fiscal year may end Sept. 30, but agencies only have until Sept. 1 to send new task orders through the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service.
With the contract finally settled, OPM has Monster plans for USAJobs.gov
In the two years since the Office of Personnel Management revamped how the federal government posts job listings and accepts resumes online, USAJobs.gov has received more than 130 million unique visits and 1.5 million new resumes.
The brave new world of the DRM
Michael Daconta's work on the Data Reference Model might not be as revolutionary as Copernicus' heliocentric theory was in 1530, but he is proposing a whole new way for the federal government to look at information.
OMB outlines e-gov reporting requirements
The Office of Management and Budget is following its own collect-once-and-use-many mantra for the fiscal 2005 report to Congress on the E-Government Act of 2002.
GAO finds DOD contract errors in more services
The Defense Department's contracting troubles are not limited to the General Services Administration's Federal Technology and Federal Supply services.
Senate puts a hold on GSA's reorganization
The General Services Administration may have finalized its plan to reorganize the Federal Technology and the Federal Supply services, but Congress isn't quite ready to give its blessing.
DOD contracting problems spread to Interior, Treasury, GAO says
A recent Government Accountability Office report found DOD used the Interior and Treasury departments' interagency procurement services and overpaid or watched as contracts were awarded with little or no competition.
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