IT security posse seeks quick fixes
From her kitchen table, Sallie McDonald led the government's response to the MSBlaster worm.
Interior puts horse before cart
Too often acquisition is the 'tail that wags the dog''agencies bring in contracting officers after they have started planning a project, and that ends up delaying things, several procurement executives recently said.
Collins probes contracting practices that led to TSP debacle
The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee is questioning the contracting practices that led the Federal Thrift Retirement Investment Board to spend $36 million on a record-keeping system and receive nothing in return.
AFGE elects new president
The American Federation of Government Employees yesterday elected John Gage as its new national president at its annual convention in Las Vegas. <br>
E-Grants portal preps for launch
After two years of planning, the Health and Human Services Department has three more months to fine-tune its portal automating the federal grants process.
GAO criticizes governmentwide telework management
The General Services Administration and Office of Personnel Management need to better coordinate governmentwide telecommunications efforts, the General Accounting Office has recommended. <br>
Texas CIO Purcell will retire
Carolyn Purcell, the only CIO Texas has had, announced she is retiring from state government at the end of this month. <br>
Thrift board fixes record-keeping system's Web front end
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board IT team today said it has eliminated a major kink in Web services for the Thrift Savings Plan. <br>
Presidential panel questions postal IT efforts
The Postal Service should focus its resources more on technology that would make mail delivery smarter and less on initiatives that compete with industry, the President's Commission on the Postal Service has concluded in a new report.
Audit concludes FTS regional office misused IT Fund
A preliminary IG audit that turned up questionable spending from the IT Fund leads GSA to close shop at one of its regional offices.
Mark these milestones in Forman's tenure
When Mark Forman signed up to manage the federal government's IT efforts, he came with a vision. He formulated a strategy and set milestones for the government to accomplish its e-government objectives using industry practices.
Parting words: a quick review
Mark Forman's two-year stint as the de facto governmentwide CIO was his third turn in a federal government job.
Forman may be gone, but will his lingo linger on?
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. And in IT circles, feds and industry officials alike have taken to mimicking the unique phraseology of Mark Forman.
The new E-Team
There's a new team of leaders taking control of federal IT and e-government for the administration, but they promise to stay the course set by Mark Forman.
With Forman gone, Bush must find the next e-gov czar
As the Office of Management and Budget considers candidates to replace Mark Forman, one thing is clear: the next administrator for e-government and IT will inherit a well-defined, prestigious position.
OMB clarifies FAIR Act job classification appeal
In today's Federal Register the Office of Management and Budget made clearer how employees, unions or industry can challenge classifications of agency jobs deemed commercial or inherently governmental.<br>
CIOs must preach culture change
As CIOs move to the boardroom from the back office, many are finding they must act as evangelists rather than technologists.
OMB updates criteria to get a green rating
After scrapping its mandatory competitive sourcing goals, the Office of Management and Budget updated the criteria for agencies to reach yellow and green ratings on the President's Management Agenda scorecard for outsourcing.
OPM tells agencies to make sure training is legit
OPM is asking agency officials to be vigilant in making sure employees are not taking advantage of a loophole in the law that lets workers receive payment from agencies for bogus degrees from unaccredited educational organizations.<br>
Two e-gov portfolio managers will leave OMB
The Office of Management and Budget's e-government office is losing two portfolio managers. <br>
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