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GSA seeks Nextel sources
The agency has published a notice that it is looking for sources of Integrated Digital Enhanced Network-based cellular services under a contract awarded to Nextel in 2002.
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IT comfort food (and no strained soup puns)
We scoured government and industry for a bad word about NASA’s Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement contract that counts 400,000-plus products in its catalog—and were hard-pressed to find one.
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Supercomputer checks potential Discovery risks
The Columbia system, named in memory of the crew lost in the 2003 shuttle disaster, is assessing images of debris that affected Discovery during its ascent.
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Web-based 'coach' helps laid-off workers
Devis' product helps users navigate resources including career assessments, resume writing and job bank information.
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The science of SEWP
Federal IT purchasing contracts, like taxes, are a necessary evil not normally the object of rapturous elegies by their users. Which is why the near-total admiration expressed by a sampling of people who use the governmentwide acquisition contract run by NASA invites skepticism.<@SM>
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GPO wants feedback as IG office modernizes
The Government Printing Office is gauging industry interest in helping the agency’s inspector general improve its auditing abilities over the next several years.<@SM>
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Joanne Woytek | Staying on course with SEWP
Joanne Woytek is the program manager for NASA’s Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement govenrmentwide acquisition contract—one of only four true GWACs authorized by the Office of Management and Budget.
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GAO criticizes DOD classification program
Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence has little involvement or oversight of how components are implementing classification program, GAO says.
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A flurry of HR LOB activity
The government’s efforts to consolidate human resources functions are moving into high gear. Over the next several weeks, the HR Line of Business interagency task force—led by the Office of Personnel Management—will issue additional requirements that agencies and private companies must meet to be considered HR shared-services providers.
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Labor starts A-76 competition for program analysts
The Labor Department is competing 51 program analyst positions in its Bureau of Labor Statistics' Office of Technology and Survey Processing under A-76.
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EVM pilot takes closer look at system costs
Under a pilot program that ended in March, OMB worked with the departments of Agriculture and Housing and Urban Development and with the Environmental Protection Agency to use EVM to calculate the baseline cost of legacy systems versus the costs of implementing new applications and the potential savings from that system. Here are the results.
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As data breaches pile up, OMB cracks down
The flood of recent data breaches appears to be the product of a perfect storm of inadequate security controls, enforcement and training. As a result, the Office of Management and Budget has announced a deadline for agencies to implement data security safeguards, and Congress is watching to ensure that agencies comply.<@SM>
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Terry Pudas | Transformation on many fronts
Terry Pudas enjoys home improvement projects and cooking. He finds working with his hands a welcome contrast to his job at the Office of Force Transformation, where he serves as acting director and is known as a key strategist for Defense Department transformation.
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Symantec combines threat intell feeds, consulting
Consultants periodically tweak the Symantec Threat and Vulnerability Management Program, which allows users to remediate threats and vulnerabilities while adhering to compliance requirements.
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ManTech takes subcontract role on Army modernization
The integrator will contribute information technology and telecommunications services on the infrastructure project.
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FAA seeks to extend contract for old telecom system
Auditors from the Government Accountability Office have proposed abandoning the new system and outsourcing telecommunications services, if delays continue.
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Agencies slow in adopting IPv6, survey finds
Almost 65 percent of respondents said funding and budgets were the top challenges they face.
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