Cold case
The collapse of the FBI's Virtual Case File project leaves the bureau facing complex choices about how to modernize case management for its workers and how to quell skeptics who question whether the bureau can avoid making the same management missteps.
Chertoff takes over at DHS
Michael Chertoff is sworn in as the new secretary of Homeland Security.
OMB's plans for private financial service centers due soon
The Office of Management and Budget expects to release its plans for vendor-operated federal financial service centers this month.
DHS lights fire under IT procurement team
The Homeland Security Department plans to release a series of major procurements in the next 90 days for commodity IT products and services.
FBI probes hack involving fbi.gov e-mail addresses
FBI systems specialists last week launched an investigation into a hacking incident that prompted the bureau to close e-mail accounts furnished by its Internet service provider.
DHS scored on systems, finances
Lawmakers today criticized the Homeland Security Department for lacking integrated computer systems and efficient financial management.
DHS intelligence chief heads for the exit
Patrick Hughes, the Homeland Security Department's acting undersecretary for information analysis and infrastructure protection, plans to leave March 15.
Budget would fund more clout for Justice CIO, spur information sharing
The Justice Department would receive $2.7 billion for IT projects under the administration's fiscal 2006 budget.
DHS '06 budget plan targets IT upgrades, consolidation
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED)</font> The president's budget blueprint for DHS outlines a plan to centralize management of several high-profile IT projects into a new Screening Coordination and Operations Office.
FBI shuts down hacked e-mail accounts
The FBI late Friday confirmed reports that parts of its fbi.gov e-mail system had been hacked.
Bid protest stalls biometric passports
The government will push back its schedule to roll out passports embedded with biometric information from late this year to mid-2006 because of procurement problems.
SAIC sees future for FBI system
The FBI should fully deploy the Virtual Case File case management system despite the problems it has experienced and the criticism it has received, an executive of Science Applications International Corp. said last week.
Senators fume as FBI admits Trilogy foul-ups
After years of touting its Virtual Case File system as the pinnacle of case management software, the FBI told senators that the project probably has failed.
Justice IG says FBI will contract for new case management system in April
The Justice Department's inspector general today released a report stating that the FBI plans to replace the failed Virtual Case File case management.
SAIC says FBI should deploy its case management system
Science Applications International Corp. said Tuesday that it has urged the FBI to fully deploy the Virtual Case File case management system.
IT systems paint detailed picture of U.S. waterways
The Coast Guard is deploying a sophisticated array of information systems to achieve what it calls 'maritime domain awareness''a comprehensive portrait of the nation's coasts and waterways.
Senate eyes DHS systems management shake-up
The Senate today laid the groundwork for a potential reorganization of Homeland Security's IT operations as part of a larger reshuffling of the department.
DHS deputy secretary nominee is outsourcing specialist
Michael P. Jackson burnished his federal management spurs by overseeing one of the largest government outsourcing projects.
Senate probes FBI case file project
A Senate appropriations subcommittee likely will hold hearings Feb. 3 to air the findings of an IG report on the FBI's Virtual Case File project.
DHS loses another key executive
The Homeland Security Department yesterday announced that undersecretary for border and transportation security Asa Hutchinson would leave his post on March 1.
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