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OMB to release metrics for 18 e-gov projects
The Office of Management and Budget on Monday will release the performance metrics of 18 of 25 e-government initiatives as a part of the annual E-Government Report.
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Intel data protection levels to be standardized
The federal government is poised to adopt a common array of data protection levels and criteria by which the secrecy rankings are to be determined.<@SM>
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Former OMB chief architect Haycock to retire
Bob Haycock, whose 30 years in government include time as the Office of Management and Budget’s first chief architect, is retiring Jan. 3.
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IDC: E-voting has long way to go
According to a new study, electronic voting systems still have a long way to go before they will generate an accurate, timely and secure voting process.
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Robert Gellman | @Info.Policy: Chief privacy officers stuck in the middle
CPOs face several institutional problems: little power, limited resources and no natural support base.
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The rise of the contractor workforce
Vendors offer a glimpse behind the corporate veil
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VA finally gets its IT all in one basket
Between Dec. 18 and next April, the Veterans Affairs Department expects to complete what a chorus of administration, congressional and IT experts have been advocating for years—centralizing its IT organization.
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Strategic retreat
The agreement between the Office of Personnel Management and the Bureau of Public Debt’s Administrative Resource Center to cancel their relationship under the financial-management Line of Business initiative could prove to be a breakthrough in federal project management.
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Secure business processes
Metastorm receives EAL-2 Common Criteria Certification for Metastorm e-Work, v. 6.6.1.
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Government’s other IT workforce
The federal government doesn’t know how many contract IT workers it employs. Nor does it care, as long as the work gets done. But with $67 billion in IT funds sloshing around in the federal budget, ignoring the bulk of the workforce iceberg also ignores regulatory, policy and demographic issues.
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GSAs proposed merger of policy shops may create political tensions
Some say offices have different missions and goals.
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Tom Pyke | A more secure IT environment
Tom Pyke was tapped to be the cowboy in the white hat for the Energy Department after a series of high-profile lapses in computer security at the department recently.
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IRS broadens Free File
The IRS revised an agreement with the Free File Alliance of tax preparation software vendors to expand the taxpayers eligible next year for free electronic filing.
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Report: Vendors don’t get your hopes up about IPv6 spending
According to an analysis conducted by Government Insights, IT services vendors should not overestimate the government’s planned spending on pure IPv6 hardware upgrades.
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USAID taps AT&T team for Web upgrade
The US Agency for International Development has issued a task order to vendor team for Web site expansion and maintenance.<@SM>
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VA to consolidate IT staff under CIO
The Veterans Affairs Department later this month will begin moving all IT staff that have not already been placed under the authority of the department CIO.<@SM>
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Private-sector shared-services providers must be FISMA-compliant
Karen Evans, Office of Management and Budget’s administrator for e-government and IT, says shared-services providers to the government for human resources or financial management services must comply with FISMA.
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Smaller banks suffer Fed access delay
A Federal Reserve online service experienced intermittent problems when a number of small and medium-sized banks tried to access it earlier this week to perform daily financial activities.<@SM>
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U.S. election system suffers from lack of planning
An analysis of last month’s general election turned up few catastrophes but revealed a pattern of frequent problems caused by poor planning, inadequate training and technology glitches.
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OMB proposes accounting standards
The Office of Management and Budget released a draft of a common governmentwide accounting classification structure as part of an effort to standardize business processes and data elements in support of the Financial Management Line of Business.
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