CIOs, FTS, FSS among areas GSA is looking to restructure
GSA is evaluating whether it needs separate CIOs in each of its three services and headquarters and how it could consolidate their IT systems.
OMB report leads union to question why feds can't improve without A-76 competitions
Federal employees won 91 percent of all competitions with the private sector for agency commercial positions in fiscal 2004, according to a recent report.
USPS to continue down server consolidation path
The Postal Service reduced the number of servers it runs by more than 80 percent. Now the USPS chief technology officer wants to consolidate even further.
Lines of Business consolidation may limit small agencies' choices
USAID among the smaller agencies that fear they will have no leverage with shared service providers.
IT budget to grow in '06'at least a little
When President Bush sends his budget request to Congress next month, the IT budget 'will go up,' Clay Johnson III says.
GAO's list of 25 high-risk programs is heavy on Defense
The ongoing legal and policy missteps of governmentwide acquisition contracts, and several DOD programs, have drawn GAO's attention.
December deadline set for security clearance database
OPM and a yet-to-be-named federal organization have until December to develop a database of security clearance information for federal and private sector workers.
NARA gives guidance on managing Web records
The records agency advises webmasters and records managers to reuse their IT system risk assessments to establish records management controls.
GSA names Shelton as interim head of FTS
The General Services Administration today tapped Barbara Shelton as interim replacement for retiring Federal Technology Service commissioner Sandra N. Bates.
NARA Web site harvest yields 75 million pages
When the caretaker of the government's history took recent snapshots of agencies' Web sites, it found hidden among 75 million pages evidence of one federal employee's obsession with a word search game and another's partiality for hangman.
Terrorist information-sharing plan awaits Bush's approval
When Karen Evans walked into one of the first meetings of the Information Systems Council, she told executives from the agencies driving the federal government's efforts to better share terrorist information that technology was not a topic for discussion.
IT security trips up two agencies on scorecard
Systems security concerns caused the Veterans Affairs Department's and the Small Business Administration's e-government initiatives to each drop a grade in the latest ratings for the President's Management Agenda.
Forest Service will revisit rec site bids
The Forest Service will heed the Government Accountability Office's suggestions and reopen discussions with vendors for the Recreation One-Stop e-government contract.
OMB report says A-76 is still paying off
On the 50th anniversary of OMB Circular A-76, the administration plans to report that the program is stronger than ever.
Report: Expect 38 percent hike in e-gov spending
Even with efforts to consolidate software purchases and limit agencies' IT budgets, e-government spending will grow 38 percent to nearly $6 billion over the next five years, according to a report from Input.
Memo indicates deal on SmartBuy Oracle license is near
The General Services Administration has instructed agencies to stop buying software and services from the government's second-largest software vendor, Oracle Corp.
IT security problems cause two agencies to slip in PMA scorecard
The Veterans Affairs Department's and the Small Business Administration's e-government initiatives each dropped a grade in the President's Management Agenda.
Another View: Is the administration's e-gov game all talk?
Nearly everyone in the Office of Governmentwide Policy is walking on eggshells lately.
GSA deletes outdated interagency reports program
The General Services Administration today cancelled a 30-year-old rule on data-sharing practices among agencies that has been superseded by use of the Web.
Coming report: A-76 continues to produce savings
In the last year, federal agencies saved about $1.35 billion on 12,000 competitions.
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