People
Evans concerned about legislation to regulate data resellers
Conducting privacy impact assessments on data brokers’ proprietary databases could discourage companies from offering their services to assist federal agencies, the OMB official says.
People
Letter: Outsourcing is not always better or cheaper
It is a fallacy to think if you throw in 100 cheap(er) workers who have no subject-matter expertise against a new or legacy redeployed business application, they will be remotely successful in its creation.
Acquisition
Officials: Reconsider inherently governmental functions
Flexibility in defining the term leads to concerns about acquisition policies, procurement officials say.
People
Letter: Educating agency staff better than limiting award fees
The solution is to educate the agency staff on how to write an award fee determination plan, how to develop meaningful metrics, how to set performance standards and how to do the required monitoring.
Modernization
Letter: Government is going over the line
Many recent government actions have stretched the limits on government as outlined in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
Digital Government
Agencies to share custom IT security training practices
A new strategy for information security training that relies on agencies to share specialized products and best practices will roll out by the end of 2008, said representatives from the Homeland Security Department Tuesday.
Digital Government
Pentagon planning for offensives in space, cyberspace
The chief of the Strategic Command hinted Wednesday during a Senate hearing that the Pentagon has plans to conduct warfare in space as well as in cyberspace.
Digital Government
Motion filed for more archiving in search for White House e-mails
In the latest development in the search for missing White House e-mails, an independent archiving organization filed a motion to extend an order that ensures preservation of backup tapes to other media and obtains emergency depositions from White House and National Archives and Records Administration officials.
People
United States, Germany will share biometric data
Officials signed an agreement today that will let the countries search each other's criminal fingerprint databases.
Acquisition
EPA IG wants fewer cost-plus contracts
The agency also gave the contractors high ratings without sufficient documentation, the inspector general says.
People
Lawmakers push telework as overall participation drops
Security concerns and lack of a uniform tracking system are to blame for telework participation drops, OPM says.
Acquisition