Digital Government

Forman lobbies IT companies

Focus is on companies with cutting-edge technology that have avoided the federal market

People

Agencies miss e-gov funding

Budget hang-ups impact progress of the 24 cross-agency e-government initiatives

People

OMB puts agencies on notice

Funding could be held up if goals for IT management not met

People

Feds work on melding architectures

OMB is working with the CIO Council's Enterprise Architecture Committee to figure out how to align data

Digital Government

Feds look for lessons from Internet worm

Less obvious systems now subject to attack

Digital Government

Bush budget pushes performance

White House hopes tool will improve measurements

Digital Government

RFI aims at security info sharing

FedCIRC calls for industry participation developing standards for exchanging security incident info

People

Treasury names critical infrastructure chief

Michael Dawson has been named head of the department's new Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection

Digital Government

Business cases put programs 'at risk'

Only two agencies submitted completely satisfactory business cases for their IT investments

People

CIO comment sought on EA models

Service Component Reference Model and Technical Reference Model are drafted

People

Little change in Treasury budget

But spending plan for IRS restores $49 million for the agency's modernization program

People

Budget emphasizes consolidation

Spending plan demonstrates the administration's vision of massive integration and consolidation

Digital Government

Security guru Clarke confirms departure

Chairman of infrastructure protection board is second high-level resignation this month

Digital Government

Budget opens book on performance

The fiscal 2004 budget will have a brand-new volume: Performance and Management Assessment

People

Agencies still seeing red

But some move up to yellow on the Bush administration's management scorecard

People

Homeland placed at 'high risk'

GAO releases its 2003 Performance and Accountability Series and High Risk Series

People

IRS targeting e-filing goals

IRS must make it 'smart business' for third-party tax organizations to promote e-filing, officials say

People

Senators: Restore e-gov funding

Letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee seeks to reinstate $40 million cut from the e-government fund

Digital Government

Policy would secure users, transactions

The =CIO Council approved a proposal to create a single policy that all agencies would use to authenticate electronic messages, documents and users

Digital Government

Linking more silos

The Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) program already provides collaboration services for state and local law enforcement beyond its basic intranet, but two new initiatives will focus on the specific problem of terrorism and the broader community that has to deal with it.