Digital Government

IRS gets new privacy advocate

A former privacy analyst for the Office of Management and Budget is now with the Internal Revenue Service.

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Snapshots of history

Nuala O'Connor Kelly's office may not be imposing or have a window, but every available surface is covered with her history

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Feds avoid Blaster

The Internet worm snarling computers nationwide last week amounted to much ado about nothing for federal agencies

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Challenging conventional wisdom

It's not privacy vs. security, says DHS privacy czar

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Forman leaving for money

The man responsible for many e-gov initiatives says he's leaving government to get paid more

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Feds to define solutions architect

Agencies agree that a solutions architect applies business and technical enterprise architecture to a specific system or function

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DHS rushes to finish tech plan

By week's end, the Homeland Security Department wants to finish the document that will define the future of the agency's information technology and business structure

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Committee approves records budget

House Appropriations members boosted the Electronic Records Archives budget by $22 million for fiscal 2004

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Early bird avoids the worm

Most federal agencies applied a patch for the vulnerability last month

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OMB works to boost management message

Agencies still learning to set good goals

Digital Government

IRS automates patch update

The Internal Revenue Service uses an automatic software distribution solution from Tivoli to not only push out new applications to users across the country but also to push out patches and other security solutions

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OMB plans outsourcing crash courses

Agencies confused about how to implement Bush's competitive sourcing plans

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OMB: How to get to green

The new criteria for achieving a good grade on competitive sourcing

Acquisition

IRS delays tax database ? again

Agency brings in consultant to evaluate the progress of the project

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Improving in-sourced jobs

Performance of jobs deemed inherently governmental remain a concern

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Info management may cost $1.3B

The demands of homeland security will force federal agencies to spend more to organize their information, according to a market researcher

Digital Government

CSC: Tax database should continue

The lead contractor and an oversight board member both say a project to build a new database for IRS customer accounts must go on.

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Taxpayer database delayed ? again

Computer Sciences Corp. informs the Internal Revenue Service of delays that would push the launch of new database into summer 2004.

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White House: No competition goals

Veto threat still looms over budget bill

Digital Government

New guidance for incident reporting

DHS and OMB will outline what cyber security incidents need to be reported