People
Justice bureau deploys more predictive analytics software
Tools can cross-check crimes with similar characteristics, idenitfy suspects who behave in similar ways and spot anomalies in collected data.
Digital Government
Auditors hack Interior's financial and personal data -- again
IG criticizes Interior's response to the audits and urges agency to address vulnerabilities.
Digital Government
VHA to consolidate vets’ health data
The initiative requires the agency to standardize data that has been entered in text form in the past, often with misspellings and nonstandard abbreviations.
People
DISA seeks collaboration IT
Vendors asked to provide ideas under the $800 million Net-Centric Enterprise Services program.
People
Tennessee renews NIC Web portal contract
The state uses a self-funded model to pay online services, in which the contractor pays for Web portal development costs but makes money from convenience fees.
People
DHS EAGLE RFP released
The Homeland Security Department has issued the final request for proposals for its new procurement program for IT services.
People
Bill would give feds e-health records
A second forthcoming bill would set into law the government's national health IT coordinator and set milestones for federal agencies’ work to advance health IT.
Digital Government
California, Blue Cross to implement telemedicine
About 90,000 members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System who live in rural areas will be able to receive medical advice via a network.
People
WIN-T system design works
General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin demonstrate key technologies for the Army’s future battlefield comms system.
Digital Government
MetaPass reaches out to feds through partnership
To increase government business for its single sign-on products, the company has partnered with Carahsoft Technology.
People
OMB to add internal controls requirements to PMA scorecard
The Office of Management and Budget will add implementation of milestones for tighter internal controls to federal agencies’ ratings for the President’s Management Agenda scorecard during fiscal 2006. <@SM>
Modernization
Interior ousts BearingPoint from major integration job
The Interior Department has removed systems integrator BearingPoint Inc. of McLean, Va., from the Financial and Business Modernization System project to install a new enterprise resource planning system, the department said.
Acquisition
Lawmaker calls for contracting probe
A House lawmaker has asked GAO to investigate federal contracting processes following the resignation and arrest of David Safavian.
Digital Government
DOE may pay bonuses based on A-123 compliance
OMB plans to closely monitor agencies' adherence to a new circular that calls for stricter internal financial controls.
Digital Government
SRA reports $76M in new contracts
FAA, DHS have awarded contracts to the integrator for services, scientific and technical studies, and strategic consulting.
Digital Government
Volunteer GIS group aids medical mission
Fifty mapping experts will donate time and equipment to gather data that can help improve services to the poor in developing countries.
Digital Government
New iris scanner catches moving targets
Sarnoff's system allows up to 20 people a minute to walk through a portal at a normal pace without stopping, a company official said.
Modernization