DHS to rate local interoperability plans
The Homeland Security Department plans to issue public scorecards of the effectiveness of interoperable first-responder communications in cities and regions across the country by the end of this year, according to secretary Michael Chertoff.
Justice signs deal for debt collection support
The Justice Department has awarded a contract to Accenture for a system to provide debt collection support to assist U.S. attorneys and other officials work out the final stages of collecting debts owed to the federal government.
FEMA CIO West returns to Commerce
Federal Emergency Management Agency CIO Barry West will return to the Commerce Department and fill its top IT job.
Privacy officers want to go public
Federal privacy officers want to move beyond the policy enforcement role they gained under the 2002 E-Government Act and other laws to position themselves as promoters of their agencies' IT missions.
Recasting the privacy officer
Privacy officers can shed the naysayer stereotype by helping IT officials build privacy controls earlier in the systems development life cycle.
Avian flu prep takes flight slowly
The prospect of a mass disease outbreak puts a new spin on continuity of operations plans generally prepared for terrorist attacks or natural disasters. Federal IT leaders are aware of the need to prepare for a pandemic but, according to specialists, haven't grasped the scale and subtleties of the problem.
TSA to roll out Registered Traveler sites
The Homeland Security Department's Transportation Security Administration has announced that it plans to begin rolling out its Registered Traveler program at 10 to 20 airports in the second half of this year.
Qui Tam Law: The Whistleblower's Sword
Frauds committed against the E-Rate program often are addressed under federal and state qui tam, or whistleblower, laws that allow private citizens to recover part of the funds that a company or individual has taken from the government by fraud.
E-Rate Probes Target Texas Vendor
The flap over how value-added reseller Micro System Enterprises Inc. and the Houston and Dallas school districts may or may not have abused the E-Rate program shows the pattern of the civil and criminal cases due to emerge over the coming months.
TSA names privacy director
The Transportation Security Administration today announced that Peter Pietra has been named the agency's director of privacy policy and compliance. He now is TSA's assistant chief counsel for information law.
State begins work on PASS cards
The State Department is planning a procurement to begin the process of issuing millions of PASS cards, which U.S. citizens crossing the border will be able to use in lieu of passports.
The Tangled Web of E-Rate
Congress created the E-Rate program as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 in a bid to provide Internet access to schools and libraries that otherwise would not have been able to afford broadband cabling and associated equipment, such as routers and servers. In the years since, the E-Rate program has come under fire partly because of its arcane and incestuous administrative structure.
E-Rate Ripoffs
Arlene Ackerman, the San Francisco Independent School District's superintendent, didn't like the looks of a $50 million project proposal submitted for her approval shortly after her appointment in 2000. As she delved into the project application'made under a program known as E-Rate'Ackerman began a five-year journey into the sordid maze of a well-intentioned but disastrous effort to provide hard-pressed schools and libraries with access to broadband service.
Paulison tapped for FEMA slot
President George W. Bush has nominated former Miami fire chief R. David Paulison to be under secretary for federal emergency management at the Homeland Security Department.
State poised to begin issuing millions of PASS cards to citizens
The State Department is planning a procurement to support issuing identity cards to citizens that they will be able to use in lieu of passports when they enter the country to meet pending requirements that all border crossers bring suitable documents.
FBI signs five-year contract with ChoicePoint for analyst software
The FBI has expanded its use of software that helps analyze how criminal organizations operate by signing a five-year licensing agreement with ChoicePoint Inc.
CDC weaving national information web
The Health and Human Services Department's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding its nationwide BioSense biosurveillance program.
North Carolina puts out a net for tracking diseases
The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiological Collection Tool is an example of the kind of biosurveillance system that the federal Health and Human Services Department is looking for as part of its early use of health IT.
Justice poised to recompete $950m litigation support services contract
<font color="CC0000">(Updated)</font> The Justice Department likely will issue a request for proposals in late April for a $950 million recompetition of its support services contract for litigation case management systems.
Agencies seek cure for project management woes
Project management challenges and the means of overcoming them remain at the forefront of senior federal IT leaders' agendas. Agency leaders soon will enjoy, or endure, additional oversight via the Office of Management and Budget's Program Assessment Rating Tool.
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