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
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