People

Comings and goings

Rep. James Greenwood. Rick Marcotte. Dexter Ingram. Wendy Rosen. Doug Clark.

Digital Government

Intercepts

IT budget cuts. DFAS updates. New comptroller. Stratcom hires CSC. NetCents team.

Digital Government

Feds launch bioinformatics centers

Institute contracts for databases and portals to compile info on diseases

Digital Government

FBI picks 10 firms for tech support project

FBI officials recently issued the first operations and maintenance task orders for their Technical Support and Development Project.

Acquisition

A time for statesmanship

This is a dangerous moment for procurement.

Acquisition

Murphy: A high cost for public data

GSA officials are using the A-76 outsourcing program to insulate the agency and the taxpayer-funded procurement data center from public scrutiny.

Modernization

Cleaning up the clutter

Agencies find storage consolidation an indispensable IT housekeeping task

Digital Government

Where livestock roam

Agriculture Department begins work on national animal ID system

Modernization

Los Alamos deploys shared storage system

Panasas will supply storage to three Linux clusters, which perform nuclear weapons test simulations.

People

Words of advice

Define requirements. Don't reinvent the wheel. Know your applications. Test everything. Roll out in phases. Think security. Back it up.

Digital Government

Feds up the ante on supercomputing

Announcements from NASA and the Navy underscore the government's resurgent interest.

People

Feds see red over OMB scoring

Some feds say they've had enough of OMB's quarterly evaluations of agency progress on the President's Management Agenda.

Cybersecurity

A trail of mishaps

Los Alamos National Laboratory has a history of security lapses involving classified removable electronic media.

Digital Government

E-records vital to health strategy

IT czar plans campaign against paperbound medical records

Cybersecurity

Johns Hopkins leads in cyber education

Johns Hopkins is a model for colleges and universities in the area of cybersecurity and information technology education.

People

GAO: Money watchdogs need central database

Financial regulators need a cross-industry database for keeping track of enforcement actions, Government Accountability Office officials said.

Modernization

GAO issues financial management system checklist

Checklist designed to help agencies meet federal financial system requirements.

People

Protecting the infrastructure

IT workers must be better trained and educated to help protect the nation's infrastructure, experts and lawmakers say.

Modernization

SRA wins EPA deal

SRA International Inc. won a blanket purchase agreement for information technology services.

Cybersecurity

Taming the wild west

Energy poised to rein in data losses at its labs, but institutional demons remain