GSA to study ideas for organizational changes
The General Services Administration's plan for reorganizing its operations is the latest chapter in its efforts to improve the way it does business.
Bush requests $65.1 billion for IT in 2006
The president's budget request calls for a 7.1 percent increase in IT spending next year.
OMB names Labor's Law to lead e-gov subcommittee
It's the second time a Labor deputy secretary has been named to the job of overseeing the e-government component of the President's Management Agenda.
Hill takes a close look at high-risk programs
The Defense Department runs eight programs that are at risk of failing, including its initiative to transform 4,700 business systems.
DHS sets timeline for enterprise portal initiative
The Homeland Security Department will start evaluating technologies and products in preparation for a March RFP for its enterprise portal initiative.
Congress aims to clear backlog of security clearances
More than 500,000 federal and contract employees are stuck in limbo, unable to do the work the government hired them to do.
Postal Service to consolidate servers, improve support
The Postal Service replaced all of its servers, PCs and notebooks two years ago, reducing the number of servers to less than 4,000 from about 20,000. But now USPS chief technology officer Robert Otto wants to consolidate further.
CIOs faulted for slow crawl toward telework
Only about 100,000 of the 750,000 eligible federal employees telework at least one day a week, and General Services Administration deputy administrator David Bibb says agency CIOs are partly to blame.
OPM will track agencies' IT training efforts
The Office of Personnel Management will use its Human Capital Scorecard to start tracking agencies' success in training IT employees.
GSA studies how to reorganize its services
The General Services Administration is trying to head off'or help out'Rep. Tom Davis before he demands the agency make organizational changes.
Working groups to revise Data Reference Model
The Data Reference Model, the final piece of the Federal Enterprise Architecture, is only a few months old, and already federal officials plan to revise it.
Survey finds IT workforce shortage eases
The IT workforce shortage that peaked in the 1990s is over.
Bush highlights IT health architecture, U.S. Visit
President Bush last night gave a nod to two federal IT initiatives in his fifth State of the Union address.
OMB picks 14 experts for acquisition panel
Fourteen well-known and highly regarded acquisition experts will hold the first meeting of the Services Acquisition Advisory Panel Feb. 9 in Washington.
Sen. Ensign to head new technology subcommittee
Nevada Republican John Ensign is named chairman of the Senate's new Technology, Innovation and Competitiveness Subcommittee.
GSA taps Murphy to be chief acquisition officer
Emily Murphy joins GSA amid the Get It Right Campaign to clean up contracting irregularities, and the reorganization of FTS and FSS.
OFPP sees ways to improve buying
It took 387 days for the Senate to confirm David Safavian as head of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
OPM to rate agencies' IT training
The Office of Personnel Management tells agencies it will start tracking their success training IT employees.
OPM launches one-stop hiring site
The Office of Personnel Management is trying to make the hiring process a little easier for agencies by including all information on a single Web site.
CIOs need to get behind telework, GSA says
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED)</font color> Agency CIOs are partly to blame for only about 100,000 of 750,000 eligible feds teleworking at least one day a week, GSA deputy administrator David Bibb says.
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