The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee yesterday approved its version of the IG Reform Act along with three other bills that will affect agency policies on e-gov, telework and real property disposal.
With two strokes of his pen, President Bush drew a line in the sand on the fiscal 2008 appropriations bills. He signed the DOD bill, but vetoed the Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies spending bill.
Robert Mocny, US-VISIT director, said this week DHS will issue a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register by January 2008 detailing the exit program.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued its follow-up 500-day plan detailing nine core and 33 enabling initiatives among the six primary focus areas.
DISA already uses managed services to meet its demand and constriction for storage and processing power, but now officials want to expand the concept's use to software.
House Homeland Security Committee approves legislation to toughen the requirements on the Coast Guard's Deepwater program and improve the roll out of the Transportation Worker Identification Card.
Lawmakers today expressed frustration over the continued shortcomings of IT projects. They questioned how much of the $65 billion agencies spend on IT is being wasted.
DIA issued Sept. 14 its much-talked about solicitation to consolidate about 30 contracts into one for intelligence analysis support. Responses to the RFP are due Sept. 28.
A new DIA contract could be worth up to $1 billion. Although the agency said an RFP would be released by Aug. 27, no notice has been posted on the Federal Business Opportunities Web site.
DHS has issued the first large-scale task order under Networx Universal contract. Two of the three Networx vendors will establish its OneNet intranet for sensitive but unclassified data.
Acting as the procurement arm for a group that includes ODNI, DOD and OMB, the Air Force issued a RFI asking vendors for strategies on how to meet Congress' 2009 deadline for improving the security clearance process.
In the second report on the management of the Sentinel program, GAO found that the FBI is heading down a successful path, but needs to address some outstanding problems.
Today GSA will officially name Fred Schobert as the new chief technical officer for the Federal Acquisition Office's Integrated Technology Services office.
FBI officials said they will finish developing plans by September for Phases 2 through 4 of the bureau's enterprise case management system, known as Sentinel.
The Gartner Group has received a $22 million contract from GSA to develop metrics under the Information Technology Infrastructure and Optimization LOB.
OMB yesterday gave agencies the basic language they will be required to use in all procurements after June 30 to ensure they are purchasing hardware and software that meet a standard Windows desktop configuration.
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