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GPO wants feedback as IG office modernizes
The Government Printing Office is gauging industry interest in helping the agency’s inspector general improve its auditing abilities over the next several years.<@SM>
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The science of SEWP
Federal IT purchasing contracts, like taxes, are a necessary evil not normally the object of rapturous elegies by their users. Which is why the near-total admiration expressed by a sampling of people who use the governmentwide acquisition contract run by NASA invites skepticism.<@SM>
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As data breaches pile up, OMB cracks down
The flood of recent data breaches appears to be the product of a perfect storm of inadequate security controls, enforcement and training. As a result, the Office of Management and Budget has announced a deadline for agencies to implement data security safeguards, and Congress is watching to ensure that agencies comply.<@SM>
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EVM pilot takes closer look at system costs
Under a pilot program that ended in March, OMB worked with the departments of Agriculture and Housing and Urban Development and with the Environmental Protection Agency to use EVM to calculate the baseline cost of legacy systems versus the costs of implementing new applications and the potential savings from that system. Here are the results.
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Labor starts A-76 competition for program analysts
The Labor Department is competing 51 program analyst positions in its Bureau of Labor Statistics' Office of Technology and Survey Processing under A-76.
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A flurry of HR LOB activity
The government’s efforts to consolidate human resources functions are moving into high gear. Over the next several weeks, the HR Line of Business interagency task force—led by the Office of Personnel Management—will issue additional requirements that agencies and private companies must meet to be considered HR shared-services providers.
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Questions persist on finance LOB guidance
Even after a third hearing this year on the topic, Rep. Todd Platts (R-Pa.) still has several questions about the Office of Management and Budget’s Financial Management Line of Business consolidation initiative.
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Pizzella to leave GSA
Mary Joy Pizzella, the driving force behind improving the FirstGov.gov Web site and making the General Services Administration’s Office of Citizen Services more agency-friendly, is returning to the private sector.
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HR task force prepares expanded guidelines, SSP criteria
The new guidelines will explain in detail which services all shared-services providers—whether public or private—need to offer their potential customers.
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Terry Pudas | Transformation on many fronts
Terry Pudas enjoys home improvement projects and cooking. He finds working with his hands a welcome contrast to his job at the Office of Force Transformation, where he serves as acting director and is known as a key strategist for Defense Department transformation.
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OFPP gets ready to move beyond Safavian
On the same day the former chief of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy was convicted, the White House’s nominee to lead the office Safavian once ran said he will make government contracting more transparent and accountable.
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Oasis OKs standard
A new open IT standard, capable of facilitating data sharing across local, regional, national and international governments and organizations, has been ratified by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.
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VA’s IT centralization could slow security fixes
Lawmakers and oversight authorities are expressing doubts that the way the Veterans Affairs Department is centralizing its IT organization will ensure that security is marbled throughout its agencies.<@SM>
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GPO mulls offering HSPD-12 services
The Government Printing Office is considering becoming a provider of Personal Identity Verification II cards for small agencies.
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House votes to create grants database
The House passes legislation that will establish a public database tracking federal grants.
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House seeks integrator for PeopleSoft implementation
The House of Representatives is seeking an integrator that will help complete the chamber's implementation of Oracle’s PeopleSoft financial management software.<@SM>
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DHS Special Report | Component approach aiding IT infrastructure consolidation
Until last October, the Homeland Security Department did not even have a global access directory—a basic requirement for a large organization. Employees couldn’t find each other if they were in different DHS directorates. Now, secretary Michael Chertoff can send an all-department e-mail with a few select addresses instead of sending it to each component agency and ordering it to cascade through those organizations.<@SM>
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DHS Special Report | Integration takes root
A modest number of IT and security initiatives are now gaining traction in the Homeland Security Department—including border screening and targeting programs, port and harbor monitoring, and the use of geospatial mapping to improve disaster response, as GCN <a href="http://www.gcn.com/print/25_16/"><b>reported last week</b></a>. In this, the second of a two-part special report on DHS, GCN looks at several fledgling and pending IT projects that form pockets of promise.
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DHS Special Report | Can DHS meet IT cybersecurity expectations?
The Homeland Security Department’s stagnant cybersecurity program stands in stark contrast to its progress in other IT areas. The job of assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications remains open, as it has been since secretary Michael Chertoff created it last October.
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VA expands online burial data features
The Veterans Affairs Department has made available online the grave locations of more than 3 million veterans and dependents buried in national cemeteries.<@SM>
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