Digital Government

IT firms unite to share security info

Nineteen companies formally announced the creation of a fourth center to help protect the nation's critical information systems

Digital Government

Bush blueprint first, then budget

Presidentelect Bush is working on an 'economic blueprint' for February release that will lead to a full fiscal 2002 budget submission

Digital Government

GSA selects two for key technology jobs

GSA has named two new directors for information technology policy issues within the Office of Governmentwide Policy

Digital Government

Agencies pit education vs. cyberattack

DOT and other agencies still have a lot of educating to do to ensure that the nation's critical infrastructure is secure

Digital Government

OMB adds guidance on privacy

OMB points out existing requirements and adds new guidance on matching citizens' personal information across agencies

People

Feds clarify rule on bonuses

Federal officials propose to explicitly let government contractors give bonuses to technical and other employees to attract and retain them.

Digital Government

GSA steers toward a single IT architecture

The GSA is moving to create an enterprise IT architecture to better support both itself and other agencies

People

Spotila takes IT leadership to industry

John Spotila, who oversaw many of the Clinton administration's IT management initiatives, has gone to GTSI

Digital Government

Ethentica touches federal, state markets

Ethentica Inc. will provide information security products and services to Lockheed Martin Information Systems' federal and state customers.

Acquisition

'Blacklisting' rule revoked

Rule would have allowed contracting officers to exclude vendors that did not meet certain ethical standards

Digital Government

Security exec picked for board

Microsoft's chief information security officer is in line to be vice chairman of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Board

Digital Government

PDD 63 status reports due

The Clinton administration is preparing two reports on the status of the government's efforts to secure the information systems that support the nation's critical infrastructure

Digital Government

New rules alter federal security planning

The environment for federal security has changed greatly over the past three months, making development of critical information systems protections crucial

Digital Government

GSA picks info assurance chief

GSA last week named Sallie McDonald as assistant commissioner of the new office of information assurance and critical infrastructure protection

Digital Government

Security: It's a management thing

Agencies are mistakenly viewing security as something that can be fixed with technology and not recognizing it as a management issue, officials say

People

OMB finalizes central guidance for IT planning

As federal agencies undergo the slow, bumpy transformation to electronic government, the Office of Management and Budget has updated the central guidance for how agencies should manage information technology resources.

People

Security plan OK'd

The federal CIO Council last week released the final version of an initial framework designed to let agencies determine where improvements are needed in their security programs.

People

DOD procurement chief: Just deliver

Getting the product to the warfighter is key in contracting, according to Deidre Lee, director of procurement at the Defense Department

Acquisition

Unisys to help with GSA pilot

Unisys has signed a contract to help with a pilot sales force management application for GSA's Federal Technology Service

People

GSA picks chief technology officer

As CTO, Christopher Fornecker will assist in developing and enforcing information technology policies across the agency