Little progress on e-gov in latest management scorecard
'More than meets the eye' is how administration officials today described the latest scores for agencies' work on the President's Management Agenda.<br>
OMB freezes authentication technology buys
OMB wants to buy authentication technologies for use governmentwide and has asked agencies to halt individual procurements.
OPM's E-Clearance meets its goals
The Office of Personnel Management this month completed the final module of its E-Clearance project that automates Form SF-86. It's one of the first Quicksilver initiatives to meet all its original goals. <br>
DHS hires SAIC for architecture work
Homeland Security Department officials are defining the data, application and technical layers of their enterprise architecture and expect by October to have a transition strategy for getting to their 'to be' state.<br>
GSA outlines four e-authentication assurance levels
GSA will require agencies to adopt one of four assurance levels for electronic authorization for all e-government projects and major IT systems that conduct transactions by Oct. 1.<br>
FEMA helps suburban emergency center open for business
An Emergency Operations Center opening today will be a regional coordination hub for four counties surrounding Washington, D.C.<br>
Web site for cross-agency services debuts
The Interagency Services Network has launched a new Web site for agencies that offer business-like services to other federal departments.
OPM weighs options on Recruitment One-Stop project
The Office of Personnel Management has said it will decide by July 21 whether to recompete the contract for its Recruitment One-Stop project.<br>
Council hires former fed to run management programs
The Council for Excellence in Government has tapped Judith Douglas to oversee leadership and performance initiatives. <br>
NARA prepares an archive RFP for winter release
National Archives and Records Administration will release a request for proposals by January to build the Electronic Records Archives system.<br>
SSA underbids industry, wins contract
A team of 36 Social Security Administration managers, programmers and analysts determined their costs for software validation to be less than any of four related contracts the agency had with the private sector and therefore won the agency's first competition for work under OMB Circular A-76.
Interior rebuffs GAO qualms, runs portal for geospatial data
Even as the General Accounting Office questioned its value, the Interior Department launched the first version of its Geospatial One-Stop portal late last month.
AFGE sues OMB over A-76 revision
A second federal employee union has gone to court to challenge OMB's revised rules for competing federal jobs.<br>
'Governmental' jobs to get OMB scrutiny
Agencies are rejecting a Bush administration push to move thousands of jobs to vendors through competitive sourcing under reviews using new OMB Circular A-76 rules.
Revisions to A-76 come under fire
Union leaders and lawmakers have taken aim at the Bush administration's new procedures for opening federal jobs to competition with vendors.
OPM speeds IT security worker hiring
To meet what federal managers see as a dire need for cybersecurity experts, the Office of Personnel Management last month gave agencies the authority to hire IT security professionals much more quickly than other workers.
Sandy Gibbs joining SBA e-gov staff
The Small Business Administration continues to add staff to its e-government office.<br>
Agencies adjust to new A-76 rules
Following initial reactions to the recent release of the revised OMB Circular A-76'whether exuberance or anxiety'agency officials are getting down to business to figure out how the new rules affect their plans to outsource jobs.
Kaplan to be nominated as OMB deputy director
Joel David Kaplan, a special assistant to the president, is to be nominated as the new deputy director of OMB.<br>
OMB refocuses Business Compliance One-Stop project
The SBA Business Compliance One-Stop project is being refocused to reduce the paperwork burden on small businesses through development of an e-forms application.<br>
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