The Office of Management and Budget told agencies to perform privacy assessments on all new IT systems and systems that are undergoing major changes in an effort to better protect personal data collected by the government.
A top House lawmaker is pressing the General Services Administration to move forward with the SmartBuy enterprisewide software licensing program. The Office of Management and Budget has said SmartBuy will save more than $100 million annually, but GSA faces resistance from agencies and contractors that question how the program will work and whether they will benefit from it.
The Air Force Materiel Command 38th Engineering Installation Group is looking for local telephone exchange services for recruiter sites in Charlottesville, Va., and Rhode Island. Services include local access for commercial business lines, analog subscriber lines, analog trunks, transport channel services, directory number and number portability, emergency 911 service, operator and director assistance and other services.
The Air Force Europe Contracting Squadron at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany needs a contractor for operations and maintenance of communication equipment for Southern Europe Communications, with opportunities in Italy, Spain, Greece and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The U.S. Forest Service needs inventory management software for itself and other agencies with forest fire warehouse facilities. Between 250 and 350 government workers in fire cache business operations would use it. Their duties include defining customers and orders; requisitions, purchase orders and requests for supply items; issuing and receiving goods; documenting work orders; and back-ordering items.
After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, when authorities learned that seven of the 19 hijackers held Virginia driver's licenses, the state immediately moved to crack down on loopholes. Other states followed suit, and it appeared for a time that Congress would take steps to ensure the states could collaborate in preventing driver's license fraud.
The Senate moves to require that new Iraqi construction contracts be awarded competitively, unless the contracting agency publicly justifies a sole source or limited-bid contract.
The Defense Department will change the way it buys services, and all federal agencies will be allowed to use share-in-savings contracting for information technology work, according to procurement rule changes announced today.
By Nick Wakeman, Jason Miller and Gail Repsher Emery
In an effort to better protect personal data collected by the federal government, the Office of Management and Budget orders privacy assessments on all new IT systems and those undergoing major changes.<br>
The General Services Administration has put together a four-step plan to improve procurement oversight and training at regional Federal Technology Service offices.
Rep. Adam Putnam is questioning the General Services Administration about why it is taking so long to get the SmartBuy enterprisewide software license buying initiative under way.
Contracts for rebuilding Iraq would have to be awarded through full and open competition, according to an amendment lawmakers said they plan to add to an upcoming supplemental appropriations bill.
Proposed legislation would require federal agencies to protect their computers and information from the security risks of peer-to-peer file sharing programs.
Federal agencies have embraced the President's Management Agenda to the point that "it's almost gone from the President's Management Agenda to the Agencies' Management Agenda," said Clay Johnson III, deputy director for management in the Office of Management and Budget.
Federal agencies have embraced the President's Management Agenda to the point that "it's almost gone from the President's Management Agenda to the Agencies' Management Agenda," said Clay Johnson III, deputy director for management in the Office of Management and Budget.
While some of the President's Management Agenda initiatives, such as e-government, move forward impressively, others are struggling. The President's Competitive Sourcing initiative is awash in a sea of fear, mythology and parochial political assaults that ignore the reality of the process and the proven benefits of competition. And strategic human capital planning -- which involves some real civil service reform and is inextricably linked to the rest of the agenda -- is stuck in first gear.
Defense contractors often escape the harsh and probing glare of the media spotlight because government procurement is considered too dull to stir the public's interest. Not this summer.
The Common Criteria for security software evaluation are not a panacea for assuring government IT systems, government and industry officials told a House panel Sept. 17.
