Digital Government

Bite-sized keys lock aeronautical network

Elliptic curve cryptography makes security workable for air-to-ground communications

People

OMB floats e-gov 'branding' strategy

The Bush administration is urging e-gov managers to consider contracting with Web portal companies to host government sites

Acquisition

IT contract overlap under scrutiny

Potential duplication of IT offerings at GSA should be expanded to include all federal IT contracts, officials say

Modernization

Davis seeks review of telecom awards

Rep. Tom Davis has asked for a review of GSA's methods for choosing vendors on its local telecom contracts

People

House OKs simplified acquisitions

Bill would extend a pilot program allowing agencies to quickly award small contracts for commercial products

People

IBM to lead DOD financial plan

DOD picks IBM to lead the creation of a blueprint for fixing the department's troubled financial systems

Acquisition

GSA freezes IT leasing

GSA put a moratorium on new leasing deals for IT products through Federal Supply Service schedule contracts

Digital Government

XML efforts need focus, GAO says

The lack of a central XML effort in government could derail interoperability, according to a GAO report

Digital Government

NIST guides target e-mail, patches

Latest draft guidance deals with poorly configured e-mail servers and the failure to apply software patches

Acquisition

GSA puts moratorium on IT leasing

Agencies face 60-day hold on leasing IT products from contractors under the Federal Supply Service's schedule

Digital Government

Plug and play

OMB's latest management initiative won't come easy

Digital Government

DISA seeks detection system

DISA last week announced plans to work with GRC International Inc. to develop a system to help detect, analyze and defend against cyberattacks

Digital Government

Designing a component-based architecture

There are two ways to look at component-based architecture

Digital Government

Springing ahead

Federal enterprise architecture milestones from the Bush administration's E-Government Strategy report

Acquisition

Do metrics measure up?

GAO, agency officials consider ways to gauge the government's success in managing large IT services contracts

People

Federal navigation plan released

Plan supports modernization of GPS and reduced dependence on current ground-based systems

Digital Government

Patch system in the works

GSA contract would set up a governmentwide notification system to warn agencies of security holes in commercial software

Digital Government

Bush seeks security budget boost

The White House last week submitted to Congress an emergency supplemental budget request for fiscal 2002 that includes more than $36 million for various homeland security information technology programs

People

Homeland security gets CIO

The Bush administration earlier this month hired Steve Cooper as CIO in the Office of Homeland Security

Digital Government

NIPC split causes concern

Sen. Grassley takes issue with FBI?s plans to break up the National Infrastructure Protection Center