Acquisition
Procurement changes 'clean house'
Draft revisions to Circular A-76 should be issued around the first week of October and could alter IT buys
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Guard chief pushes systems upgrade
The Air National Guard director sees great need for modernizing information management systems
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Creation of e-gov office praised
But whether the office's leader should be called a CIO and be confirmed by the Senate remains in dispute
Digital Government
Cyber strategy slow in arriving
Experts attribute the long development cycle to matters ranging from the complexity of the task to the politics involved
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Forman pushes House to meet e-gov fund request
The Bush administration is applying a full-court press to the House to authorize its request for a $45 million e-government fund. Mark Forman, the Office of Management and Budget’s associate director for IT and e-government, yesterday told lawmakers that the fund was “critical to achieving the promise of e-government.”
Digital Government
PKI bridge open for business
GSA held a ceremony for the first agencies to be cross-certified with the federal public-key infrastructure bridge
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Student tracking system lagging
The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System may be just "technically operational" by deadline
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Homeland's 1st goal: Be different
The day-one IT goal for the proposed Homeland Security Department is to provide new capabilities
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Cyber strategy: A starting point
The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace released today will become more detailed as comments are returned
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Four agencies achieve interoperable PKI
After five years of work, the General Services Administration’s Federal Bridge Certification Authority has made the public-key infrastructures of four agencies interoperable. For the first time in history, federal agencies will accept each other’s digital certificates through the bridge.
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Secretary Norton is cited for contempt in Indian trust case
A federal judge yesterday found Interior secretary Gale Norton and assistant secretary for Indian affairs Neal McCaleb in contempt of court for failing to fix systems that manage trust fund accounts for American Indians.
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Millennium Challenge IDs systems
Experiment identifies concepts, systems ready for implementation to support joint military forces
Digital Government
New system keeps phone lines open
Ascendent's new system mirrors an organization's telephone network, enabling communications in case of disruptions
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DISA picks 3 for enterprise antivirus
A trio of vendor teams will supply protection in a DOD enterprise antivirus software initiative
Digital Government
NIH awards research system pact
CSC to develop and tie together information systems for patient care and research
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OMB-centric world
At the recent Interagency Resources Management Conference in Hershey, Pa., a reader said that GCN’s coverage of the Office of Management and Budget had intensified noticeably in the past year.<@SM>
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