The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today approved Paul Denett's nomination to lead the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
Legal permanent residents and some other foreigners would be added to the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program's border screening process under a newly proposed regulation.
Annual spending through the General Services Administration's Multiple Award Schedule contracts for IT products and services will decline in fiscal 2006, according to a report from Input Inc.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will fund states a total of $150 million in 2007 and 2008 to design ways, including IT, to transform their Medicaid systems to increase quality and efficiency of care.
The number of physicians moving to electronic health records jumped by more than one-third since 2001, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Homeland Security Department secretary Michael Chertoff has filled one of the gaps in the department's ranks of permanent senior officials by appointing Hugo Teufel III chief privacy officer.
The Government Accountability Office has closed Indus Corp.'s bid protest over the Homeland Security Department's multibillion-dollar Eagle contract for IT services.
A little-publicized credentialing system is intended to assist in identifying which responders should be allowed to enter an incident scene after a natural disaster or terrorist attack.
The General Services Administration will issue solicitations seeking smart-card services and devices next month on behalf of the Social Security Administration.
Project Performance Corp. won a quartet of contracts totaling nearly $2.4 million to help the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with a range of IT management, security and technical projects.
On June 20 DOT and DHS officials will run an exercise with less than 200 port workers and seafarers at ports in Baltimore, Jacksonville, Fla., and Norfolk, Va., to see how identification cards with different types of tokens work in disparate environments.
The retooled Web site reflects the department's philosophy gained in experiences with hurricanes and other disasters that a well-prepared citizenry can dramatically lighten the burden on first responders.
Independent Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords places a hold on legislation that would officially recognize the Federal Acquisition Service?which GSA already launched?and, more important, merge the General Supply and IT funds into the OneFund.
IBM Corp. has been hired by the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide collaboration services under the Net-Centric Enterprise Services program.
The Coast Guard is monitoring and sharing counterterrorism information at three new interagency centers and 35 new sector command centers it has set up at ports around the country.
