President Bush's 2005 proposal would amount to 1 percent bump
The startlingly small 1 percent increase for IT funding outlined in President Bush's fiscal 2005 budget proposal illustrates that agencies are heeding the administration's call to closely mesh systems and mission requirements.
OMB: Focus on cybersecurity before new projects
The Office of Management and Budget has told 18 agencies not to develop, modernize or enhance IT systems until their cybersecurity problems are fixed.<br>
OMB: E-Gov cooperation starts right here
Tad Anderson, OMB's associate administrator for e-government and IT, said his office must communicate better with Congress about the benefits of the IT reform agenda.<br>
Florida CIO Bahrami resigns
Florida CIO Kim Bahrami today announced she is stepping down from her post effective Feb. 27. A replacement has not been named.
GSA schedule beckons in budget squeeze
After spending $10 million over seven months, state and local governments are expected to open their wallets much wider to use the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service IT schedule this year.
President's plan: Funnel GWAC, schedule fees to E-Gov Fund
The administration is trying to make up for the $87 million shortfall in money appropriated to the E-Government Fund over the last three years by tapping fees generated by schedule and governmentwide acquisition contracts.<br>
Bush requests 1 percent increase for IT in 2005
<font color="CC0000""> UPDATED </font color>The administration today asked Congress for $59 billion for IT hardware, software and services in fiscal 2005, a $600 million increase over this year's request.<br>
Congress, OMB can't get it together
GAO says OMB needs to integrate its Performance Assessment Ratings Tool with agencies' annual Government Performance and Results Act reports.<br>
Wojciak to lead Government Reform staff
House Government Reform Committee staff member Melissa Wojciak will take over Monday as committee staff director, replacing Peter Sirh.<br>
OPM gets to green on e-gov rating
The Office of Personnel Management has done what only one other agency has accomplished: reached e-government nirvana.
GSA offers free use of telecenters for 60 days
The General Services Administration again is trying to attract federal employees to use one of its 15 Washington metro area telework centers.<br>
More time needed to test software
Agencies are having a hard time meeting some of OMB's deadlines for migrating to e-government projects.<br>
OMB's drafting a new architecture guide
The administration later this year will release a guide and best practices to measure how ingrained the systems blueprints are in agencies.<br>
OMB: Agencies are halfway to securing IT systems
OMB is expecting a little more than 50 percent of all IT systems to be accredited and certified as secure when it releases its annual report to Congress this summer.<br>
Davis, Putnam ratcheting up IT security oversight
Two lawmakers are pressing agencies to correct longstanding IT security problems.<br>
OPM preparing online learning contract
The Office of Personnel Management by early March will release a request for proposals for online training services for its E-Learning e-government project.<br>
OMB names insider to oversee g-to-g e-gov projects
Kamela White will head the government-to-government Quicksilver projects.<br>
Online extra: Congress keeps an eye on FTS
Lawmakers are promising to do whatever is necessary to right the Federal Technology Service's listing ship.
E-Gov fund shortchanged again
The $820 billion Omnibus Appropriations Bill that the Senate passed last night allocated only $3 million for the E-Government fund'$2 million less than last year and $42 million less than the president's request.
FTS to run SmartBuy
The Office of Management and Budget has turned over the operation and maintenance of the SmartBuy governmentwide software licensing initiative to the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service.<br>
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