The House and Senate appropriations committees came out with close figures on overall Homeland Security discretionary spending in their draft bills for fiscal 2006.
Sun Microsystems Inc. is retooling its global government business with new leadership and a new structure to chase growing opportunities in systems modernization, information sharing and secure networks.
Lawmakers are applying additional restrictions and greater oversight on large IT and e-government projects in the fiscal 2006 agency spending bills making their way through Congress.
When the Census Bureau's enumerators go door to door to survey households for the 2010 census, they will be equipped with handheld computers instead of pencils and note pads.
On June 8 the interim Federal Acquisition Regulation rule implementing Section 818 of the 2005 National Defense Authorization Act was published. Section 818 was Congress' response to the Boeing KC-767A Tanker Aircraft acquisition and the related Defense Department inspector general's report that criticized it.
It is one of the Homeland Security Department's most tantalizing, big-ticket, system integration projects on the horizon ? but it's been stalled for months as Congress and federal officials review the goals of the department and examine allegations of mismanagement in a related legacy system.
Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee say Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's reorganization plan fails to overcome the department's existing ad-hoc approach to security.
In identical letters to key lawmakers, Clay Johnson, OMB deputy director for management, asked lawmakers to limit or remove any language that hampers agencies' abilities to spend money on cross-departmental projects.
The White House is objecting to language in the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations bill that eliminates funding for the use of commercial databases in the department's Secure Flight passenger screening program at airports.
The U.S. government is a unique customer in many ways. Among the many oddities that accompany dealings with the government, the terms and conditions are, in many respects, totally non-negotiable. The Federal Acquisition Regulation and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement lay out a wide range of provisions that typically are presented as a take-it-or-leave-it proposition.
Data-mining technology used in the Computer Aided Passenger Prescreening System II program should have been more closely scrutinized to ensure it protected privacy before it was granted full protection from legal liability, according to Rep. Martin Olav Sabo.
In a letter to U.S. senators, a coalition of industry associations and companies asks lawmakers to review the treaty and focus on the importance of global cooperation in fighting Internet-based crime.
Linda Combs received approval from lawmakers to become the new head of the OMB's Office of Federal Financial Management, while Linda Springer will direct the government's personnel agency for a term of four years.
