Online rule-making to debut Dec. 18
The Office of Management and Budget and the Environmental Protection Agency plan to launch the first iteration of the Online Rulemaking e-government project on Dec. 18. The portal will let citizens and businesses find and comment on proposed federal regulations. <br>
SBA using Web for backup, recovery
The Small Business Administration has moved its data backup and recovery operations to the Web as part of a desktop client and network upgrade.<br>
GSA to lower schedule fees by a quarter percent
Based on a recommendation by the Logistics Management Institute, the General Services Administration will lower the fee it charges to use the Federal Supply Service schedules to 0.75 percent from 1 percent of a contract's value. <br>
FedCIRC plans centralized software patch distribution
The General Services Administration is working to make it easy for agencies to stay up-to-date with software patches.<br>
Thrift Investment Board director Mehle steps down
Roger W. Mehle, executive director of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, has resigned and has been replaced by James B. Petrick.<br>
OPM and FEMA unveil e-gov sites
The Office of Personnel Management and the Federal Emergency Management Agency have launched Web sites for their e-government projects.<br>
Praise on the Hill for Forman, but more work remains
While praising OMB's Mark Forman this week, congressional staff members say the government's 25 Quicksilver e-government projects have a long way to go. And Congress will be paying attention.<br>
Agencies still struggle with management agenda
The Energy Department's work on its e-government projects earned the department the biggest jump in that category in the latest President's Management Agenda grades. <br>
Homeland Security Department shapes up
Sources say White House Homeland Security Office director Tom Ridge and Gordon England, the secretary of the Navy, are emerging as the likeliest candidates to lead the Homeland Security Department.<br>
Evans named vice chair of CIO Council
Energy Department CIO <b>Karen Evans</b> is the new vice chairwoman of the CIO Council.<br>
OPM lets employees compare health plans online
The Office of Personnel Management is giving workers who are enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program the ability to compare national and local health plans online. <br>
House passed e-gov bill; Senate prepared to take it up
Congress is one step away from creating an Office of E-Government in the Office of Management and Budget and providing unprecedented funds to move e-government forward across agencies. <br>
Brooks brought competition to federal IT procurement
In the mid-1960s, Jack Brooks, then a congressman from Texas, saw the future in technology. He also saw the need for competitive bids.
Election boosts Bush's IT agenda
For the federal IT community, the 107th Congress will be remembered mostly for how little it did'especially in agency appropriations, homeland security and IT.
OMB shakes up two e-gov projects
Dissatisfied with the progress on two Quicksilver e-government projects headed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Office of Management and Budget last month replaced the program managers.
NARA issues guidance on archiving e-mail
The National Archives and Records Administration recently released a guide on how agencies can submit e-mail and message attachments to NARA for archiving as records. Agencies now can use a standard markup language or an e-mail program's native format. Previously, NARA only allowed the ASCII text format.
OPM and CIO Council look for more managers
The Office of Personnel Management and the CIO Council are taking on the governmentwide shortage of IT project managers and systems architects by elevating the two positions above the generic title of computer specialist.
New A-76 guidance will cut competition time 66 percent, Styles says
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy plans to release the much-anticipated revision of OMB Circular A-76 as early as this afternoon.
White House plans a 'network of networks'
The White House wants to use the Army National Guard network'which with 3,000 connection points throughout the United States and three territories is one of the federal government's largest unclassified networks'as the starting point for a network of networks. The CIO of the Homeland Security Office, Steve Cooper, speaks out on this new plan
IT management is improving
For 18 years, Dave McClure got a first-hand look at how agencies manage their IT infrastructures.
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