The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Security Agency have released a specification to standardize IT security checklists.
Designed to have thousands of systems run on it, the Defense Department's new enterprise architecture will usher in what some people are calling the biggest IT transition ever done.
Systems security concerns caused the Veterans Affairs Department's and the Small Business Administration's e-government initiatives to drop a grade each in the latest ratings on the President's Management Agenda.
The Small Business Administration has extended the deadline by 60 days for comments on the advance notice of a proposed rule related to the agency's effort to restructure small business size standards.
UPDATED: Computer Sciences Corp. and Raytheon Technical Services Co. win systems development and integration contracts with the Patent and Trademark Office, allowing the two companies to compete for work at the agency, officials at the Patent Office said.
Accenture LLP won a five-year, $87 million contract to help the U.S. Mint operate and improve the business systems and processes that support its retail sales and marketing activities.
The Air Force Research Laboratory wants to build a modular data network that can integrate everything from tactical unmanned aerial vehicles to ground forces.
Science Applications International Corp. today rejected criticism that it botched a $170 million IT upgrade project with the FBI, saying the company has performed well and that the FBI is partly to blame for problems.
An anemic 2005 budget will force the IRS to curtail work on most efforts to modernize its business systems and instead focus on payment and compliance and improving tax administration, said IRS CIO Todd Grams today.
The Office of Management and Budget has tapped Stacie Higgins as its new manager of the government-to-government Quicksilver portfolio and Grants Management Lines of Business initiative.
Michael Chertoff, the appeals court judge who President Bush today nominated to become Homeland Security secretary, was an early advocate of data mining to pinpoint terrorists.
The Washington Department of Social and Health Services is planning an RFP for late January for a portable communications device for people who are both deaf and blind. The state needs a contractor to design, produce, market and support such devices.
