People
Federal 100 winner: Brock Lending
Lending, Compusearch Software Systems chief technology officer, was a clear voice for the procurement community as officials on the Integrated Acquisition Environment Roundtable developed the Financial Systems Integration Office’s Acquisition System Requirements.
People
Justice issues new FOIA guidelines
Attorney General Eric Holder issued new guidelines today that encourage agencies to release information to the public under Freedom of Information Act requests.
Modernization
The best security strategy: Low expectations
Members of a panel of security experts today painted a gloomy picture of the cybersecurity landscape, in which rapidly evolving threats and conditions ensure that even the best solutions are likely to remain piecemeal and temporary.
Modernization
OMB: Stimulus grant applications may overwhelm portal
Grants.gov is already struggling to keep up with the increase in demand, and agencies must find other methods for accepting economic recovery grant applications and submit plans to OMB by March 13.
Modernization
Lieberman: CRS reports should be freely accessible
Congressional Research Service reports should be made available to the public through a centralized, searchable system, according to Sen. Joe Lieberman.
Cybersecurity
Lieberman questions courts on information-sharing law
Sen. Joseph Lieberman asks federal court officials if they are adequately complying with the E-Government Act that oversees release of electronic court documents to the public.
Modernization
GAO: Labor's whistleblower data a mess
The Labor Department's records for federal whistleblowers are often inaccurate and incomplete, according to a new GAO report.
Modernization
Former official: Census handhelds could save millions
Using handheld devices in the 2010 census will be limited, but devices are likely to be used heavily for the 2020 population count, former Census Bureau director also says.
Modernization
Issa seeks info on White House e-mail use
Rep. Darrell Issa, the senior Republican on the House Oversight panel, is asking the White House to clarify its policies on staffers using personal e-mail accounts such as Gmail.
Cybersecurity
FAA suffers massive data breach; more than 45,000 affected
The agency said the personally identifiable information of more than 45,000 employees and retirees was electronically stolen.
Modernization
Privacy debate gets new urgency
Balancing patient privacy with electronic records has always been tricky, but the new emphasis on health IT as an economic engine creates new concerns.
People
Data requirement may be over for agencies
An OMB pilot program that required agencies to submit subcontracting data expired in December, even as regulators consider additions to it.
People
Opening the info doors
Access to government information is about to get much easier, if the new president's early actions are any indication.
People
White House office ordered to search for e-mail messages
As part of ongoing litigation, a federal judge today ordered the Executive Office of the President to search workstations and media for any e-mail messages sent or received between March 2003 and October 2005.
People
Also in the News: Bush e-mail, record transfers may stretch into 2009
The data transfer has been imperiled by a combination of technical glitches, lawsuits, and lagging computer forensic work.
People
Transition Watch: Daschle likely to push for health IT
Obama's pick for HHS secretary is an advocate of expanding health information technology as one part of a comprehensive health reform program, Government Health IT reports.
People
Court lets e-mail case against administration proceed
A federal judge has denied the Bush administration's motion to dismiss claims from two private groups that allege the executive offices of the White House failed to archive millions of e-mail messages.
People
CRS warns against destruction of Web pages, records
Web pages, e-mail messages and other electronically created documents are in danger of disappearing in the flurry of activity that accompanies a change in administration.
People
DHS to consolidate Systems of Records Notices
The Homeland Security Department has been reviewing its System of Records Notices to ensure they are current and accurate.
People
TIGTA: IRS needs to do better on fraudulent refunds
Limited resources constrain the tax agency on following up with identified potential fraudulent claims, report says.
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