President Bush said he would nominate this week Charles McQueary as undersecretary for science and technology and Michael Brown as undersecretary for emergency preparedness and response.
Federal agencies that make late interim payments to contractors on cost-reimbursement contracts now are required to pay an interest penalty, according to an Office of Management and Budget final rule.
OMB's Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office will begin soon to determine how to align its blueprint with the assortment of architecture models federal agencies use.
The Small Business Administration and the Defense Department last week took the first step toward completing the Business Partner Network for government contractors. SBA integrated its small business database, PRO-Net, with DOD's Central Contractor Registration system.
The General Services Administration is combining some operations of the Federal Technology Service with the Federal Supply Service, including moving IT contracts from FTS to FSS.<br>
Sources say Alan Balutis, the executive director of the Industry Advisory Council and the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils, is negotiating with the groups to be bought out of the remaining year of his contract.<br>
E-Government Act of 2002, which many believe is the most sweeping legislation since Congress passed the Clinger-Cohen Act six years ago, was signed into law today.<br>
<FONT SIZE=2>The federal government is extending its buying power to state and local governments through a small provision in the E-Government Act of 2002, which Congress passed last month.</FONT>
James Flyzik, senior adviser in the federal Office of Homeland Security, says he will join two other former government-IT market veterans to form a consulting firm after he retires next week.<br>
The federal Office of Management and Budget has released a second inventory of jobs that could be opened to public-private competition under Circular A-76. <br>
Based on a recommendation by the Logistics Management Institute, the General Services Administration will lower the fee it charges to use the Federal Supply Service schedules to 0.75 percent from 1 percent of a contract's value. <br>
HERSHEY, Pa. ? Sandra Bates, commissioner of the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service, received the Janice Mendenhall Spirit of Leadership Award Nov. 4 from the Industry Advisory Council and the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils at the Executive Leadership Conference.
James Flyzik, special adviser to homeland security director Tom Ridge, announced Nov. 4 his plans to retire after 28 years of federal service. He will leave government Dec. 17. Flyzik, who is on detail to the Homeland Security Office from his post as chief information officer of the Treasury Department, said he has not decided what his next step will be.
The request for proposals is for content management software for GSA's FirstGov portal, Federal Asset Sales site and several other Web sites the agency runs.
After a two-month delay, the General Services Administration earlier this week released a draft request for proposals for a governmentwide online travel management system.
The Bush administration is applying a full-court press to the House to authorize its request for a $45 million e-government fund. Mark Forman, the Office of Management and Budget's associate director for IT and e-government, Sept. 18 told lawmakers that the fund was "critical to achieving the promise of e-government."
Mark Forman and his colleagues at the Office of Management and Budget expect to launch up to 21 first or second iterations of the 24 Quicksilver e-government initiatives during the next four months.
