People

FirstGov for citizens coming soon

First performance measures for the 24 cross-agency e-government initiatives also will be released

People

E-gov at heart of GSA budget

GSA's $260 million request includes support for e-gov initiatives and a new Office of Citizen Services

Digital Government

Sharing is focus of homeland IT

Information technology programs make up about 2 percent of the homeland security budget

Digital Government

Budget makes business case

Fiscal 2003 request bases more than $50 billion in IT investments on program effectiveness

Acquisition

OMB rethinks contracting goals

OMB is giving agencies more time to convert government contracts to performance-based pacts

Digital Government

Agencies urged to report cyberattacks

The central organization for incident warnings and analyses announced a series of tools to help agencies improve their information security programs

People

Bush budgets $52B for IT

Dramatic 15.6 percent increase fueled by administration priorities such as homeland security projects

Digital Government

Performance and budget link improves

Agencies are getting better at linking performance goals with budget requests, GAO says

People

Bush budgets $52 billion for IT

Homeland security needs and performance focus boosts budget request for fiscal 2003 by 15.6 percent

People

Procurement execs set priorities

The Procurement Executives Council is leaning on the President's Management Agenda to make e-gov happen

Digital Government

Windows 2000 security draft released

NIST releases draft guide for system administrators to secure Microsoft's Windows 2000 Professional

People

Management focus boosts contracting

Administration's focus on management issues indicates drive to improve contracting, acquisition official says

Digital Government

Bills aim at raising infosec expertise

Sen. John Edwards introduced two bills to raise the level of information security expertise

People

NIST prepping security guides

Security team will be releasing more than 30 guides over the coming year to help agencies

Digital Government

OMB offers dim view of security

Assessment of agencies' GISRA reports supports the consistently poor view of federal security

Digital Government

FedCIRC preps free security tools

First up is an automatic patch dissemination system, followed by an RFP for a collaboration system

People

GovNet decision nears

Federal security experts soon will brief Richard Clarke on industry proposals for the secure intranet

People

OMB sniffing out system overlap

HUD's deputy chief information officer is on detail to OMB, looking for ways to cut costs and redundant systems

People

Payroll is 24th e-gov initiative

OMB adds the consolidation of federal payroll systems to the group of high-impact, cross-agency e-gov projects

People

GSA puts contracting tool online

The new virtual performance-based contracting guide offers a teaching tool for this method of acquisition