SBA takes cue from FirstGov on Web site redesign
The Small Business Administration relaunched its Web site last week, using the customer-centric formula being pushed by OMB and the FirstGov portal.<br>
Galvan to be CIO at SBA
Stephen Galvan on Monday will assume the post of CIO of the Small Business Administration.<br>
Policies and practices: Ex-feds take OMB's IT vision to private sector
Charlie Self, Frank McDonough, Jim Flyzik and Bill McVay have amassed more than 100 years of federal experience among them. They represent a small but growing cadre of long-time feds who have recently retired and moved into the private sector.
OMB developing rules for IT privacy assessments
By late summer, the Office of Management and Budget plans to issue privacy regulations that most likely will affect only new systems.<br>
Amber alerts will go to the Web
Washington state is leading the charge to find and rescue abducted children. Through a public-private partnership, Washington is working with Oregon, Idaho, British Columbia and a nonprofit group to move Amber alerts from solely broadcast media to the Web to publicize missing children.
AFFIRM recognizes IT leaders
The Association for Federal Information Resources Management awarded Mark Forman, the Office of Management and Budget's administrator for e-government and IT, its 24th annual Executive Leadership Award.<br>
GAO weighs employee A-76 protest rights
The General Accounting Office considers taking the new protest rights in the revised OMB Circular A-76 a step further by letting federal employee groups file grievances with the audit agency. <br>
Senate confirms Johnson as OMB deputy
The Senate this week confirmed Clay Johnson as deputy director for management in the Office of Management and Budget.<br>
OMB: Coordinate agency GIS buys
Agencies spend billions of dollars on geographic information systems, but as much as 50 percent is duplicative spending, a senior administration official told lawmakers last week.
GAO sticks by its ruling on protest of OPM e-gov buy
The General Accounting Office has pushed the Office of Personnel Management closer to reopening a procurement for Recruitment One-Stop'one of the 25 Quicksilver e-government projects.
Callahan will not seek a second term as the president of AFFIRM
The Association for Federal Information Resources Management last week said Laura Callahan, the embattled Homeland Security Department senior director in the CIO office, will not run for a second term as the organization's president.
FTS merging business systems
The Federal Technology Service is consolidating systems that agencies and vendors must interact with daily.
E-authentication gains ground in agencies
Agencies slowly are warming up to using electronic signatures and other forms of electronic verification as a part of their everyday business. <br>
Callahan will not seek second term as AFFIRM president
The Association for Federal Information Resources Management yesterday said Laura Callahan will not run for a second term as the organization's president.<br>
OMB: Rein-in spending on geospatial systems
Federal agencies spend billions of dollars on geospatial systems, but as much as 50 percent is duplicative, OMB's Mark Forman told lawmakers today.<br>
President's agenda is taking root, OMB official says
Agencies are buying in to the President's Management Agenda, a senior administration official says, and that means they are making more progress toward the agenda's goals.<br>
CIO Council firms up roles of system architects
The CIO Council later this month will release a white paper to set standards for the job responsibilities of a solution architect, an enterprise architect and a chief architect. <br>
With a new manager, OPM enters final stages of HR project
Rhonda Diaz is the new project manager for OPM's Enterprise Human Resources Integration e-government project.<br>
OMB freezes agencies from buying or renewing software licenses
The Office of Management and Budget has directed agencies to stop buying or renewing software licenses to the maximum extent so that the General Services Administration can start purchasing governmentwide licenses. <br>
OMB expert helps Homeland Security tackle A-76
David Childs, an Office of Management and Budget senior procurement policy specialist, is on detail to the Homeland Security Department for three months to help the agency build its infrastructure to compete federal jobs with the private sector. <br>
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