Modernization
Booz Allen wins communications deal
Naval Air Systems Command announced it had awarded a five-year contract to Booz Allen Hamilton.
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SSA office to craft Web content
The Social Security Administration plans to have an Office of Electronic Communications.
Cybersecurity
FISMA compliance: Money misspent?
The research director at the SANS Institute gives failing grades to FISMA implementation efforts.
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Lockheed wins $19M deal
Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems business division will finish the next version of software used to plan Air Force missions.
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Reps. seek biometric delay
Bipartisan legislation would give visa-waiver countries one more year to include biometrics in passports.
Modernization
NASA’s O’Keefe: We saw the trouble coming
Agency's administrator says they knew the transition of data from dozens of older financial systems would cause problems.
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Spotila to leave GTSI
The company does not plan to get a new president and chief operating officer.
Cybersecurity
NIST has new certification guide
It's "Special Publication 800-37, Guide for the Security Certification and Accreditation of Federal Information Systems."
Digital Government
Media missing at Los Alamos
The national lab says it's an accounting error, but a watchdog calls it a security breach.
Modernization
NASA’s ERP project goes awry, GAO tells panel
NASA has bungled its $982.7 million enterprise resource planning system project in a way that caused the agency to lose track of $2 billion in its Treasury Department account and forced it to adjust its books, witnesses told a House committee last week.
Modernization
VA, DOD two-way medical data exchange uncertain, GAO says
The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments are proceeding with development of their own computer-based patient records systems but lack a clear strategy as to how to build electronic data exchange capability.
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Air Force issues draft solicitation for info management
The service wants an integrated set of IT capabilities for collaboration, document and workflow management.
Modernization
Remotely updating BlackBerries
The next version of BlackBerry Enterprise Server will let IT managers wirelessly update software in handheld devices.
Modernization
FEA security layer due this summer
The Office of Management and Budget by the end of the summer will release a security layer for the Federal Enterprise Architecture.
Cybersecurity
CEOs seek security collaboration
The Business Roundtable says feds can share information and help firms past legal barriers related to IT security.
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New FedBizOpps contract coming
GSA issued a solicitation for a new vendor to take over the site for information about federal contracts.
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GSA’s E-Travel is ready to leave the station
The National Science Foundation has waited nearly three years for an electronic travel system, but patience seems to be paying off.<@SM><@SM>The agency will join seven others as the first adopters of the General Services Administration’s E-Travel initiative. By early summer, NSF plans to award a task order for a reservation and voucher system to one of three E-Travel contractors: Carlson Wagonlit Government Travel Inc. of San Antonio, EDS Corp. or the Mission Systems unit of Northrop Grumman Corp.
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GPO hunts fugitives
The Government Printing Office will send out a Web bot to find so-called fugitive documents.
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