Through a pilot, USDA officials are using the Earned Value Management criteria to better manage their IT portfolio, says Marilyn Holland, left, Agriculture's chief of the CIO office's Program Planning and Management division.
A senator is asking the original contractor on the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board record-keeping system, American Management Systems Inc., for all of its records relating to the project.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, chairwoman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, is questioning the contracting practices that led the Federal Thrift Retirement Investment Board to spend $36 million on a new record-keeping system from American Management Systems Inc. of Fairfax, Va., and receive nothing in return.
By synchronizing the settings of the mainframe host and telecommunications equipment of its new record-keeping system, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board IT team today said it had resolved a major kink in Web services for the Thrift Savings Plan.
The General Services Administration closed down its Federal Technology Service field office in Bremerton, Wash., after the agency's inspector general found the office's staff misused the IT Fund to buy construction, architecture and engineering services.
Succumbing to congressional pressure, the Office of Management and Budget has dropped governmentwide goals for having federal employees compete with the private sector for work.
Science Applications International Corp. is leading a team that will help Homeland Security Department officials define the data, application and technical layers of their enterprise architecture.
