Michael Daconta spent much of the last year revising the Federal Enterprise Architecture's Data Reference Model, becoming a central figure in shaping how agencies will share, categorize and describe data.
The Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion program achieved full operational capability earlier this month with completion of one third of the network for classified and nonclassified data.
Development InfoStructure Corp. of Arlington, Va., once again is protesting the General Services Administration's award of the contract to run the government procurement portal to Symplicity Corp. of Arlington, Va.
The General Services Administration took an important step toward getting the blanket purchase agreement in place by May 2006 for agencies to buy approved products and services to meet Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.
After the incremental but growing success of the SmartBuy enterprise software licensing program, the Office of Management and Budget is expanding the concept to IT hardware.
The Defense Department is expected to release as early as today the request for proposals for converting its legacy systems to the Network Centric Enterprise Services program.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology plans to post the results of tests on smart cards and readers on a public Web site as soon as they are available.
The Government Accountability Office again has rejected a protest by Symplicity Corp. of the Office of Personnel Management's contract award to Monster Government Solutions to run the government's online employment portal.
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy hopes to follow the General Services Administration's lead in reviewing and consolidating repetitive governmentwide acquisition contracts.
InfoReliance Corp. has been awarded a GSA contract for a database that will gather information about each agency's public-private competitions of inherently commercial federal jobs, and agencies' workforce inventories of which positions are considered commercial.
The General Services Administration has told agencies to postpone any further purchases from Symantec Corp. for antivirus software in anticipation of reaching an enterprisewide agreement with the company.
The General Services Administration has asked agencies to postpone buys from McAfee Inc. for antivirus software in anticipation of reaching a deal with the company under the government's enterprise software licensing program.
The General Services Administration's Federal Acquisition Service is gearing up for a busy winter with initiatives dealing with satellites, Networx and Alliant.
Of the 12 functional areas that federal CIOs are responsible for, their private-sector counterparts share eight of them, including systems acquisition and information security, according to the Government Accountability Office.
The Homeland Security Department has tapped Charlie Armstrong, the former CIO of the department's Border and Transportation Directorate, to be its deputy CIO.
