Cybersecurity
GAO: Feds still lack security research agenda
Numerous agencies are actively researching security issues, but they are not coordinating their work, according to GAO.
Modernization
Sun renews GSA IDIQ contract
The contract allows Sun Microsystems Federal to continue to supply its products and services to the government through August 2009.
People
CMS awards potential $9b contract
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded a contract worth as much as $9 billion to six vendors for contact-center operations for general Medicare and claims inquiries among all CMS communications channels.<@SM>
People
Management training program aims at fed contractors
Helios HR and Workforce Learning join forces to train government contractors in coping with workforce challenges.
Cybersecurity
BearingPoint's HSPD-12 contract to expire in January
GSA will not pursue option years with the company and will open competition for future Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 requirements.
Modernization
HUD seeks modernized financial-management system
The Housing and Urban Development Department seeks proposals to modernize its accounting and financial-management functions by moving its core legacy systems to the PeopleSoft suite of financial-management applications to create an integrated system.
Digital Government
ITAA president: Treat industry as 'full partner'
Phil Bond called on leaders of developing countries to treat the private sector as a full partner and create business conditions that promote the growth of the Internet.
Modernization
AT&T to develop Army financial systems
The telecom company will develop and deploy two systems that will improve the Army's finance processes.
People
New skills demanded in networked government
Government managers will need new skills and the ability to collaborate in order to move ahead in an age of networked governance, a senior GSA executive warned Monday.
People
ELC: Feds, industry leaders hash out partnership ideas
Attendees at the Executive Leadership Conference agreed agencies and contractors need to open the lines of communications when confronting procurement issues.
Cybersecurity
IG: IT security faces time crunch at DOT
The department needs to strengthen the security of its air traffic control systems, while protecting other systems as the agency consolidates IT operations, the IG said, adding that "fiscal 2007 will be a particularly challenging year."
Modernization
Identity Force, ID Analytics reach reseller pact
The new agreement will make Identity Force a government reseller of ID Analytics’ breach analysis services.
People
Tipton steps down as Interior CIO
W. Hord Tipton said he took inventory of what he had accomplished since assuming the position in 2002 and felt it was time to try something new.
Modernization
David Warner | Next-generation command and control
Air Force Brig. Gen. David Warner has an answer for the 90-plus legacy interfaces that currently tie into the joint battlefield C2 system under his control: service-oriented architecture.
Modernization
Navy halts Web site and portal investments
Before the Navy brings its IT infrastructure into the Defense Knowledge Online portal, service officials have to get a better handle on Navy Web site and portal investments.<@SM>
Cybersecurity
Security database: The hits just keep on coming
NIST's National Vulnerability Database now lists 20,000 flaws and shows no sign of slacking.
People
Howard sworn in as VA's CIO
Retired Army major general Bob Howard takes the chief technology officer post at VA as assistant secretary for information and technology.
Modernization