The final plan comes a little more than two months after the agency issued a draft plan that was criticized by Capitol Hill, the administration and industry.
While the Senate still mulls over President Bush's selection for Defense Department CIO, legislators recently signed off on several Defense appointments before they took their August recess.
Monster Government Solutions won a new deal late last week to run the USAJobs.gov Web site after an Office of Personnel Management recompete for the contract.
California established its new state technology services department last month with a mission: send a clear signal to agencies and industry that the state is serious about consolidating central IT services and functions and leveraging its buying power.
I was briefing a management team on the Office of Management and Budget's strategic sourcing memo that asks agencies to define three commodity areas ripe for this methodology. I explained how enterprise license agreements with software publishers can be structured to lower administration costs, but still allow many resellers, integrators and small businesses to participate in the business.
For a view of homeland security policy ideas espoused by Stewart Baker, the Homeland Security Department's new policy czar, look no further than his testimony to the 9/11 Commission.
Prime IT contractors for the Pentagon would be much less likely to use subcontractors, and Defense Department contracting options would shrink if a pricing amendment sponsored by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) is approved as part of the defense authorization legislation, industry groups charged last week.
Physicians who bilk Medicare on claims soon may be unable to hide among the system stovepipes of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Officials are modernizing CMS' data collection and storage systems, hoping to bring down the agency's soaring rate of improper payments and reduce waste, fraud and abuse.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's new requirement that first-time visitors to the United States provide 10 fingerprints -- rather than the two currently required -- is being applauded as a move toward more meticulous identification and better security.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) says the General Services Administration should conduct more post-award contract audits to ensure the federal government is getting the best possible prices on contracts.
The agency is trying to collect information to help the Office of Management and Budget finalize requirements for the federal identity card called for in Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12.
Share-in-savings contracting is struggling to get off the ground, with no contracts awarded that use the procurement method authorized in the E-Government Act of 2002.
Rhonda Joseph has assumed the enterprise architecture responsibilities previously held by Darren Ash as deputy associate CIO for the Transportation Deparment.
The Commerce Department agency will seek IT services for help desk, seat management, Web programming and development, network operations center, e-mail operations and other services supporting the IT infrastructure.
