Acquisition councils rule on contacts with debarred companies
Agencies must limit contractual connections with companies that have been debarred, suspended or proposed for debarment from federal business, a Federal Register notice said today.
DOD to change way it buys services
Over the last 15 years, Defense Department spending on services has increased from 20 percent of DOD's procurement budget to 60 percent of it. The dramatic shift has prompted procurement officials to revisit how Defense buys services.
E-gov brings CFOs, CIOs together
Mark Carney would never be identified as a techie. But that doesn't mean the deputy chief financial officer at the Education Department and chairman of the E-Government and Systems Committee for the CFO Council isn't IT-savvy.
GAO: Agency architectures are still immature
Agency progress toward mature enterprise architectures is stagnant, according to a soon-to-be released General Accounting Office report.<br>
NARA begins search for archives system vendor
The National Archives and Records Administration has released the final solicitation for its Electronic Records Archive project.
Lieberman accuses DHS of violating E-Gov Act
The ranking member of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee has charged that the Homeland Security Department broke the law by not conducting and publicizing a privacy impact assessment for the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology system.
GSA considers contract award announcement regulations
The General Services Administration is considering requiring agencies to announce all contract awards online. <br>
OMB wants 2004 to be a breakthrough year for e-gov
The Office of Management and Budget wants agencies to achieve "breakthrough performance," a top administrator says.<br>
VA to expand central network to all facilities
The Veterans Affairs Department has started connecting their hospitals, medical centers and other facilities around the country to a central data network under its One VA plan.<br>
GSA's senior IT auditor to retire after 36 years
Larry Begley, the General Services Administration's director of IT in the inspector general's office, will retire Jan. 2 after more than three decades of federal service.<br>
Deadline for Web privacy policies looms
Agencies have three weeks to beef up their Web site privacy policies as required under the E-Government Act of 2002.<br>
Defense will merge business modernization into GIG work
The Defense Department is merging its troubled Business Systems Modernization effort with its Global Information Grid architecture project.<br>
E-gov projects receive 508 attention
As the Health and Human Services Department prepared to launch the latest version of <a href="http://Grants.gov">Grants.gov</a> last month, usability testers hit a snag.
Congress backs new training plan
Congress has approved a multimillion-dollar fund to train civilian acquisition employees through the Federal Acquisition Institute, quadrupling the existing budget for such training.
Lawmakers take aim at E-Gov Fund and the rules for A-76 competitions
In an appropriations bill approved this month, lawmakers took on the White House by cutting funds for Quicksilver e-government projects and altering competitive-sourcing rules.
Will omnibus spending bill be done Monday?
Lawmakers are working on a continuing resolution to keep the government open until Monday and might extend it until Dec. 5 if they cannot agree on an omnibus spending bill in the next two days.<br>
CIOs: Funding is toughest challenge
In the annual Top 10 Federal CIO Challenges Survey, funding ranked first, followed by hiring and keeping technology workers.<br>
OASIS drafts standard for Web services security
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards has finished a draft security standard for Web services connecting disparate systems.<br>
OMB updating architecture reference models for '06 budget process
Agencies should expect to have updated versions of four of the five Federal Enterprise Architecture reference models before the fiscal 2006 budget process begins in February.<br>
Transportation's Matthews named to CIO Council post
Daniel P. Matthews, CIO of the Transportation Department, is the new vice chairman of the CIO Council. <br>
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