GAO: Tracking of acquisition data needs work
The Office of Management and Budget must do more to ensure the reliability of federal procurement data, including reviewing agency procedures for collecting and reporting information to the Federal Procurement Data System, the General Accounting Office contends.
OMB wants to see long-range A-76 planning
The Office of Management and Budget is asking agencies to prepare long-range plans for conducting public-private competitions of federal jobs.
OMB prods agencies to merge HR, financial apps
Agencies should be prepared to give up more money to governmentwide consolidation initiatives this year.For the next 12 months, the Office of Management and Budget has set its sights on merging human resources systems and financial systems across government.
On enterprise architectures, White House walks the walk
When it comes to enterprise architectures, the White House is leading by example.In a recent report, the General Accounting Office rated the Executive Office of the President's modernization blueprint as complete and at Stage 5 of GAO's tiered EA framework.
DOD builds on GIG blueprint
The Defense Department is merging its troubled Business Systems Modernization effort with its Global Information Grid architecture project to reduce confusion and ensure compliance with standards, said John Osterholz, the director of architectures and interoperability in the department's CIO office.
Davis asks administration to clarify SmartBuy plans
The government's operations watchdog on Capitol Hill is asking the Office of Management and Budget to divulge details of the stalled enterprise software program known as SmartBuy.
E-Rulemaking team studies three technical directions
By month's end, a final architecture for the E-Rulemaking project will be set.
GAO: OMB needs to ensure better procurement data
The Office of Management and Budget must do more to ensure the reliability of federal procurement data, including reviewing agency procedures for collecting and reporting information to the Federal Procurement Data System, the General Accounting Office said.<br>
Senators call for Thomas site upgrade
Six senators are calling on the Library of Congress to upgrade what it calls the "bare-bones" and inadequate Thomas portal to legislative information.
OPM's Fitzgerald will leave government next month
The Office of Personnel Management's E-Training project manager, Mike Fitzgerald, is heading to an industry job.
NSF wins honors for e-government progress
The National Science Foundation has earned the highest possible praise for management of its e-government projects.<br>
GSA gives agencies a year to begin moving to E-Travel
Civilian agencies must choose one of three online travel systems and begin migrating to it by Dec. 31 of next year.<br>
OMB to ask for long range A-76 plans
OMB is asking agencies to prepare long-range plans for conducting public-private competitions of federal jobs.<br>
OMB names two new e-gov portfolio managers
The Office of Management and Budget tapped Mike Turk and Shivani Desai to fill two of its three vacant e-government portfolio manager slots.<br>
OMB to unveil next wave of e-gov projects in '05 budget request
The executive steering committee leading the project to develop a federal health architecture is close to submitting recommendations to the Office of Management and Budget for cross-agency projects, said a senior administration official.
Agencies get a year to set authentication needs
Agencies have until Dec. 15, 2004, to classify the authentication needs of all their major systems, using the final guidance the Office of Management and Budget released yesterday.<br>
Anti-spam bill signed into law
New law, which takes effect Jan. 1, allows fines of up to $250 per e-mail against "kingpin spammers."<br>
Agencies expect enterprise efforts to bear fruit in '04
Dick Burk likes to recount how the Housing and Urban Development Department has 217 systems built on every conceivable platform and running every conceivable type of software. And in the past year, HUD spent 33 percent of its $360 million IT budget maintaining those disparate systems.
OMB makes plans for E-Gov's Act 2
As the E-Government Act turned 1 year old this month, administration officials were looking forward to how the act would shape the next year's agenda, rather than back at what had been accomplished in the last 12 months.
Fiscal 2004 budget delayed until January
Early hope for a finished fiscal 2004 budget has turned into another long haul for agencies. Even though the House passed an $820 billion omnibus appropriations bill last week, the Senate decided against debating the bill, opting to wait until after the December recess.
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