The Defense Department inspector general will take a closer look at eight contracts that fell under the authority of Darleen Druyun, the recently convicted former Air Force acquisition manager.
The General Services Administration hopes the success of its Quicksilver projects will convince Congress to let it use surplus funds from its IT sales and services operations to support e-government initiatives next year.
President Bush has used the bully pulpit to advocate for the adoption of health IT, such as electronic health records, and in fiscal 2006 he has requested $125 million to back up that talk.
Although President Bush's fiscal 2006 budget proposal calls for a 7.7 percent bump in spending at the Homeland Security Department to $41.1 billion, it also demands that DHS take steps to consolidate systems.
The Bush administration's 2006 budget request calls for the collapsing of the Federal Supply and Federal Technology services into a single organization.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network will launch a system March 1 so law enforcement and financial institutions can transmit information about people they suspect of financing terrorist activities or laundering money
State and local governments in the next several years will move to sharply align their IT investment with desired public policy outcomes in such areas as healthcare, human services and economic development, according to a new study.
The Small Business Administration is changing its Historically Underutilized Business program to help small businesses create more jobs in economically distressed communities.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Security Agency have released a specification to standardize IT security checklists.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology Jan. 31 released the final public draft of recommended security controls for federal systems, a fine-tuned version of a document that will become a mandatory Federal Information Processing Standard by the end of the year.
The federal telework law will bring more business to systems integrators and other contractors, but agencies still need to figure out how to comply with the four-year-old legislation, said Jim Shanks, president of CDW Government Inc., Herndon, Va.
President Bush last night gave a nod to two federal IT initiatives in his fifth State of the Union address: the federal health IT architecture and the government's entry-exit system.
The federal telework law will bring more business to systems integrators and other contractors, but agencies still need to figure out how to comply with the four-year-old legislation.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released the final public draft of recommended security controls for federal systems, a fine-tuned version of a document that will become a mandatory Federal Information Processing Standard by the end of the year.
The Small Business Administration is changing its Historically Underutilized Business program to help small businesses create more jobs in economically distressed communities, the agency said today.
Thales e-Security Inc. is finishing work on an encryption appliance to secure legacy process control systems that regulate much of the nation's critical infrastructure.
