People

Federal asset sales initiative on fast track

GSA is developing a program through which agencies can funnel billions of dollars of annual sales of their excess property

Digital Government

New models offer spending insights

OMB releases three architecture guides

People

Federal Asset Sales on the way

The e-gov initiative is looking for a 'service aggregator' to handle sales of federal assets

People

'Info security for the rest of us'

ITAA certification is for workers who have computers but may not consider security their responsibility

Digital Government

FDIC project tries out XBRL

Modernization project could give Extensible Business Reporting Language some momentum

Digital Government

OMB posts models for budget development

Agencies will use the enterprise architecture reference models in making their fiscal 2005 budget requests

Digital Government

IRS looks at outsourcing

Internal Revenue Service officials plan to try outsourcing the management of the agency's desktop and computer networks

People

Security group in the hot seat

Feds, industry concerned about priorities

People

What is a solutions architect?

A new white paper from the CIO Council will seek to answer that question

Digital Government

IRS finds e-filing has side benefits

The IRS has found that e-filing has unanticipated benefits: fewer phone calls

People

DHS division to push cybersecurity efforts

The Bush administration created a new organization to improve security across the federal government and work with industry

People

NARA's skills gap

Report suggests records agency needs more IT expertise

People

DHS creates cybersecurity division

New office will work with government and industry to protect the nation's critical networks

Acquisition

IRS to test seat management

The IRS will test the possibility of outsourcing its desktop and network support

People

OMB creates SmartBuy initiative

Governmentwide enterprise licensing initiative is intended to lower the cost of software for agencies

People

OMB puts federal jobs up for grabs

Revised A-76 holds agencies accountable for competing work deemed commercial

Acquisition

Five hurdles for business cases

Every agency has areas in which it does well and areas in which it struggles when developing business cases for information technology investments

People

IRS picks CIO, top deputy

The IRS has turned once again to its in-house experts to fill key information technology positions

Digital Government

Feds earn qualified praise on security

For the first time, agencies have been able to show that they have improved their information security practices

Digital Government

IRS rife with security weaknesses

GAO found almost 900 information security weaknesses across 11 IRS organizations