People
House DOD bill slashes 2007 NMCI funding
The House Armed Services Committee also cut the budget for the Army Global Combat Support System.
People
John Johnson picked for critical role at GSA
Agency veteran will take acting leadership role at GSA’s Integrated Technology Services.
People
Bill demands free public access to science reports
Articles about federally funded research would have to appear online 6 months after publication
People
CBP taps InfoPro for HR support
The company will help the office move to a distributed computing environment.
Digital Government
Letters
Energy innovation; Replacing pass/fail; VOIP isn’t always easy; Addressing employee concerns
Modernization
OMB to spell out financial LOB process
If competition is the foundation of the Office of Management and Budget’s Financial Management Line of Business Consolidation initiative, the administration’s migration planning guidance will be the blueprint agencies need to really understand how to assemble it.<@SM>
Acquisition
Courtland: Focusing on the future
GSA's value proposition of the future ought to capitalize on past successes
Modernization
Put an end to manual penetration testing
Core Impact automates the task of finding security vulnerabilities.
Modernization
HUD’s team effort
In its Vision 2010 document released in February, the Housing and Urban Development Department laid out its modernization strategy around its core lines of business. To get there in about four years, the department will rely on portfolio and project management—the basic tenets of any large system modernization effort.
Digital Government
When data centers lose their cool
Lately, the weather inside data centers has grown unmanageably hot, forcing IT managers to reconsider plans they’d taken for granted. And data center modernization—the unglamorous second cousin to today’s business systems modernization—has become essential.
People
Agencies are enlisted to help lobby Congress for more support of e-gov
As the Office of Management and Budget steps up efforts to lobby Congress on the benefits of E-government, officials want agencies to do their share, too. In the latest President’s Management Agenda scorecard, nine agencies slipped in the E-government portion, and OMB officials are putting agencies on notice that they must do a better job of promoting their case on Capitol Hill.
People
House committee asks Army to consider integrating JNN, WIN-T
The House Armed Services Committee wants to know how the two programs can fit together.
Digital Government
Mass. relaxes open-format mandate
The CIO says state policy was never intended to be anti-Microsoft.
People
Lockheed Martin makes Savi buy
The RFID provider gives Lockheed Martin new container management capabilities.
Modernization
How to chill out
It isn’t sexy, but IT managers will tell you that keeping a data center properly cooled is an ongoing challenge. An average rack of servers once consumed roughly five kilowatts per hour. Today it’s not unusual for a rack of servers to consume seven, 15 or up to 30 kWh in ultradense, blade-filled racks. That’s expensive—and hot.<@SM>
Cybersecurity
Curt Barker: The man who mastered deadlines
As a pro bono project manager at NIST, he unlocked the secrets of teamwork
Cybersecurity