Acquisition

Alliant RFP almost ready

Bidders will soon have the information they need to submit proposals on the Alliant contract, a new governmentwide acquisition contract.

People

Law enforcement needs resources to fight electronic crime

Officials are stumped by high-tech crimes and need to determine how widespread they are and find better ways to fight them.

People

VA names Wooten to head enterprise program management office

The Veterans Affairs Department today named David Wooten, a retired Navy aviator and senior program manager, to direct its new enterprise program management office.

People

Wooten named to head VA program management office

A retired Naval officer tapped to lead VA's new project management office.

People

White House issues civil service reform proposal

The Bush administration proposal would phase out the General Schedule system replacing it with occupation-based pay bands.

People

OPM contract expands number of e-learning vendors

Federal agencies will have more than 59 vendors in six specialized areas to choose from for their online learning services under a new contract awarded by the Office of Personnel Management.

Digital Government

Health IT bills merged

The sponsors of two major Senate bills to promote health information technology have joined forces, merging the two major bills.

People

Chinese military targeting DOD tech

A new DOD report states that China seeks “electromagnetic dominance” early in wars.

People

CMS assessing patient health record development for Medicare recipients

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is seeking industry comment to determine how involved the agency should be in the development of personal electronic health records for its target populations.

Digital Government

CDW-G launches health care unit

The new group will fall under CDW Government's management and will spend this year creating a marketing strategy.

Digital Government

Perot Systems to acquire Tennessee engineering company

Acquisition gives Perot expanded offerings for Energy, NASA and DOD.

People

Justice seeks faster fingerprint tech

Feds put muscle and money behind the development of better fingerprint and palm print technologies.

Cybersecurity

GAO to Census: Focus on management

Government Accountability Office auditors suggest how the Census Bureau can get in shape for the 2010 decennial census.

Digital Government

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Digital Government

Editorial: The need for IT advice

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People

NGA reviewing public comments

Intelligence agency to decide this fall whether to remove air, sea data from its Web site.

Digital Government

the Pipeline

New DiscEdge software supports digital publishing.

People

Preserving records in cyberspace

Experts say feds can learn from state archivists

People

Why does Congress hate e-gov?

It’s hot in Washington, so the White House must be fending off congressional attacks on e-government.

People

For some IRS employees, it's tough to win

An 18-month workforce restructuring effort affecting 15 percent of employees of the Internal Revenue Service's Modernization and Information Technology Services (MITS) should be complete by September.