Modernization

Booz Allen wins communications deal

Naval Air Systems Command announced it had awarded a five-year contract to Booz Allen Hamilton.

People

SSA office to craft Web content

The Social Security Administration plans to have an Office of Electronic Communications.

People

Kentucky hires IT commissioner

Mike Inman will run the Governor's Office for Technology.

Cybersecurity

FISMA compliance: Money misspent?

The research director at the SANS Institute gives failing grades to FISMA implementation efforts.

People

Lockheed wins $19M deal

Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems business division will finish the next version of software used to plan Air Force missions.

People

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.

People

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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E-gov progress is slight on new OMB scorecard

The Office of Management and Budget’s latest scorecard for the President’s Management Agenda, covering January through March, shows that only two agencies improved their e-government scores since the last ratings in December. The State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development moved to yellow from red.