As director, William Jeffrey would lead the governmentwide technical implementation of the federal identification card and the continued development of IT security and electronic-authentication technologies.
Promotional materials aren't going to sell the Office of Management and Budget on how a vendor can best consolidate and standardize IT security, said John Sindelar, OMB's Line of Business Consolidation initiatives program executive.
The controversial Chief Information Security Officers Exchange effectively collapsed today, with both of its co-chairs, Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), and the federal CIO Council, withdrawing their support.
OFPP and OMB's IT and E-Government Office will soon send a memo to agency officials reminding them that it is against the FAR to name a specific product in a procurement without a written justification.
The General Services Administration will set up a lab under the E-Authentication e-government initiative to test commercial products that perform certificate path discovery and validation services.
The Office of Management and Budget and the Homeland Security Department this week kicked into high gear the cybersecurity Line of Business effort by releasing to industry a request for information.
The General Services Administration's plan to reorganize the Federal Technology and Federal Supply services must go beyond the superficial merging of two organizations and improve the organization's overall value to agencies and industry, federal and private sector officials said.
Requests for proposals for the multibillion-dollar FTS Networx contract are delayed until May following a change of heart at the General Services Administration.
Sen. Susan Collins has vowed to keep a close eye on the General Services Administration as it works to resolve the long-standing problems in Federal Supply Service contract practices revealed by the Government Accountability Office.
GSA's Federal Supply Service is getting heat from Congress for not guaranteeing that it is getting the best prices available under its schedule programs.
The State Department and the Government Printing Office are in the final stages of determining which and how many companies will provide electronic passports for Americans.
The General Services Administration is combing the Federal Supply Service's IT schedule for smart-card vendors whose products and services meet a new federal standard.
