The General Services Administration is circulating a draft proposal to merge its Office of Governmentwide Policy with the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs.
Raytheon won a contract with the Homeland Security Department to produce a system that analyzes risk on aviation routes to help choose the best ones for aircraft during emergencies.
Senior Homeland Security Department officials joined their counterparts from foreign governments, other federal agencies, select IT vendors and pressure groups in the domestic and international privacy arena to discuss privacy policies and biometric technology at a conference in Washington this week.
The Army will have a better idea of which of its 60-some legacy human resources systems will be discontinued and which will be integrated with the Defense Department's Integrated Military Human Resources System in about six months.
The Homeland Security Department will need a new, short-term bridging strategy if it wants to move quickly to achieve operational control of the U.S. southern border, two leading scholars recommend in a newly published memorandum.
Details of an emergency-responder electronic health record as another early use for health IT are being developed by the Health and Human Services Department.
The IRS announced last week it will not proceed with a public-private competition under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 for the entire Seat Management program.
The Homeland Security Department has been lax in following basic contracting rules, according to a private consultant's report obtained by the Washington Post.
Harris Corp. of Melbourne, Fla., won a one-year, $42 million contract renewal from the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs to continue delivering technical support services to more than 230 embassies and consulates around the world.
Training and simulation technology married with lessons learned in the Middle East over the past 18 months have improved dramatically ? enough to assist military forces set to deploy to Afghanistan later this year.
Standards being developed for intelligence information sharing are expected to be fully incorporated into federal enterprise architecture reviews and budgets by fiscal 2009, according to a schedule submitted by National Intelligence Director John Negroponte.
A new report has found that federal agencies are not testing their security controls with any consistency or timeliness and may not be aware of the systems' weaknesses.
The Agricultural Department expects to have a blanket purchase agreement, from which it will purchase encryption products, in place by Jan. 1, and anticipates purchasing 150,000 licenses.
General Dynamics Corp.'s IT business will help complete the transition of the White House's external communications system to an Internet protocol-based infrastructure.
