Acquisition
FEMA official: Local businesses must understand federal procurement
Those businesses' ability to understand federal contracting in an emergency such as Hurricane Katrina is crucial, FEMA's acquisitions director said.
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Real ID regulations moving slowly, two governors say
State executives also oppose using DHS grant money for the driver's license program.
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HSPD-12 checks prompt lawsuit
Workers at NASA lab reject HSPD-12 background checks as too intrusive.
Digital Government
Agencies urged to use EA to safeguard data
Mike Castagna, the Commerce Department’s chief information security officer, preaches about the close relationship that should exist between an agency’s enterprise architecture and its information assets.
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Technology Administration head resigns as agency nears end
The Bush administration is replacing Commerce-based agency with a departmentwide council.
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Coast Guard to test TWIC waters
The agency is looking to buy 300 card readers to test aboard at ports and aboard ships before broader deployment.
Modernization
FBI CIO: Culture inhibits info sharing
Zalmai Azmi said the intelligence community isn't used to the concept of sharing information and therefore worries about security and leaks.
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Border states to test hybrid IDs
But experts say the ID tests won’t resolve problems in creating national standards.
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28 NASA scientists sue over HSPD-12 checks
They filed a class-action lawsuit against the directive, which they say violates their privacy rights.
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NASA needs boomer expertise
Brain drain could mean a serious setback for the agency’s next trip to the moon.
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EPA CIO wants better search capabilities
The growing number of agency documents that are converted into digital formats and dumped online is the source of the problem, Molly O'Neill said.
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GAO: NASA needs a plan for management modernization
The space agency must show how all its systems will work together before it can begin integrating them, GAO said.
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TSA could lose FAR exemption
Lawmakers want TSA to follow the same procurement rules that everyone else does.
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NASA makes most of IT in workforce planning
The space agency wins praise from GAO for its use of technology in managing staff for current and future missions.
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DHS convenes classes online
Employees explore educational possibilities available to them through a new Web portal.
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Online talent tools assist HR in shaping fed workforce
More managers are using the tools to decide when they need to train existing employees, hire new employees or employ contractors to fill gaps.
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House tries to defund pay system
DOD has brought 113,000 civilian workers under the new pay-for-performance rules.
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NIST director resigns
William Jeffrey will become the director of the Science and Technology Division at the Institute for Defense Analysis.
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