Modernization
Wilsker: Work by any other name
Increasingly, organizations think of telework as part of their strategy for letting employees be mobile.
Cybersecurity
IRS employees fall for faux password scam
As part of a test sample, 60 percent of IRS employees were duped into giving their passwords to IG auditors posing as help-desk representatives.
People
OPM: Agencies need retirees back
The agency wants to change the law so retirees can return to work to train the next generation of feds.
Modernization
DARPA seeks innovations in network monitoring
The agency’s Strategic Technology Office has created the Scalable Network Monitoring program to develop new approaches to network monitoring that can be applied regardless of a network’s size.
Modernization
GSA to name Schobert as ITS CTO
Fred Schobert also will be the director of the IPv6 transformation effort.
People
Bush approves 9/11 bill
The legislation lets grants be awarded on a risk-based system, eases foreign travel through the Visa Waiver Program, and requires 100 percent screening of all aviation and maritime cargo within five years.
Cybersecurity
HHS awards BearingPoint HSPD-12 pilot
The eight-week pilot, involving 1,500 employees, aims to validate a process for supplying secure identification or smart cards for the department's 112,000 employees and contractors.
People
Working group to study e-democracy efforts
An international organization wants to know how online meetings can boost citizen participation in government.
Digital Government
Massachusetts approves use of Office Open XML
State agencies can now use OOXML and the OpenDocument Format.
Modernization
OPM details plans to revamp financial systems
To modernize its systems, OPM will need systems implementation, application hosting services and software through a single acquisition process that will result in one contract.
People
Senate committee approves bill to improve DHS management
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has approved a measure that would create a chief management officer at DHS.
Cybersecurity