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Neal Fox | GSA and DOD: new agreement, old mistakes
I wish I could say that the newly signed procurement agreement between GSA and the Defense Department will help bring DOD business back to GSA, but it won’t. In fact, it will do the opposite.<@SM>
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Intel data protection levels to be standardized
The federal government is poised to adopt a common array of data protection levels and criteria by which the secrecy rankings are to be determined.<@SM>
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Primavera Systems buys two companies
Terms were not released in the purchase of ProSight, a portfolio analysis solutions company, and Pertmaster, a U.K. risk analysis and mitigation solutions company.
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Bush to name Harris chief to advisory committee
Howard Lance will join other industry chief executives on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
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Tom Pyke | A more secure IT environment
Tom Pyke was tapped to be the cowboy in the white hat for the Energy Department after a series of high-profile lapses in computer security at the department recently.
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GSAs proposed merger of policy shops may create political tensions
Some say offices have different missions and goals.
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Government’s other IT workforce
The federal government doesn’t know how many contract IT workers it employs. Nor does it care, as long as the work gets done. But with $67 billion in IT funds sloshing around in the federal budget, ignoring the bulk of the workforce iceberg also ignores regulatory, policy and demographic issues.
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Secure business processes
Metastorm receives EAL-2 Common Criteria Certification for Metastorm e-Work, v. 6.6.1.
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Strategic retreat
The agreement between the Office of Personnel Management and the Bureau of Public Debt’s Administrative Resource Center to cancel their relationship under the financial-management Line of Business initiative could prove to be a breakthrough in federal project management.
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VA finally gets its IT all in one basket
Between Dec. 18 and next April, the Veterans Affairs Department expects to complete what a chorus of administration, congressional and IT experts have been advocating for years—centralizing its IT organization.
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The rise of the contractor workforce
Vendors offer a glimpse behind the corporate veil
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Robert Gellman | @Info.Policy: Chief privacy officers stuck in the middle
CPOs face several institutional problems: little power, limited resources and no natural support base.
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FTI delay leaves FAA paying for two systems at once
The agency now plans to complete the transition to the FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure by December 2008, not December 2007 as originally planned.
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William Goodson to lead fed sales at Autodesk
The seasoned exec was named vice president of sales for Autodesk Government, a unit of the company that serves federal, state and local government agencies.
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USAID, USPS sign AT&T deals
The company will provide voice, data and IT services to the agencies.
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FAA awards GTSI $63M contract
Under the five-year contract, GTSI will provide the agency with high-end solutions involving Sun, Cisco and other IT peripheral devices
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Court group deploys SPSS software
The National Center for State Courts has bought predictive analytics software to examine data on court sentencing, judicial and staff workload, and court performance.
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Verizon to provide voice for Forest Service
The task order could span five years and was issued under GSA's Connections contract.
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Texas Guard goes wireless for rapid response
It has started to use Fortress Technologies’ rapid response communications kit to help it share critical information and save time and lives in disasters.
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