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- Government IT failures: "Room for improvement" [interview and podcast]
- Given the size, scope and frequency of government IT failures, it's important to understand the dynamics underlying these projects. To learn more about federal IT, I interviewed two federal systems experts from CA, developer of the Clarity project portfolio management PPM solution. Gil...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Google, CDT call for more searchable government
- It's time -- high time -- for government agencies to make their websites much more friendly to web search engines. That's what Google and Wikipedia plan to tell a homeland security Senate committee Tuesday, according to the Washington Post. The Center for Democracy and Technology and...
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- OMB wants agencies to delete Social Security numbers
- OMB wants agencies to delete Social Security numbersDe-link the SSNThis is an action for which I have been advocating for some time now: Find some ways to de-link the SSN from personal information so that such data breaches have little effect. Short of total systems encryption, this is about the...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-29
- OMB wants agencies to delete Social Security numbers
- Many colleges and other institutions have dumped Social Security numbers to identify people because of the ongoing security risk. Finally, the federal government is jumping on the bandwagon. The Office of Management and Budget recently issued a memo giving federal agencies 120 days to come up with a plan to...
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- GAO: Problems with OMB oversight of IT
- David Powner, director of IT management issues at the Government Accountability Office, is critical of the way the Office of Management and Budget collects information about IT projects, Government Computer News reports. “The watch lists are very valuable because they identify projects that are poorly performing,” Powner said. But...
- Blog posts 2006-07-26
- OMB releases guidelines for data security
- The Office of Management and Budget issued new security "guidelines" PDF to prevent data breaches today, after a month of revelations of shoddy treatment of personal information at the hands of government employees, the Washington Post reports. Agencies will have to encrypt all data on laptop or handheld computers...
- Blog posts 2006-06-27
- On heels of VA's giant data breach, White House & GAO review security practices
- According to ComputerWorld, the White House Office of Management and Budget OMB and the Government Accountability Office GAO are jointly looking into the data security practices of the Veterans Administration as well as several other agencies. Recently, a computer containing the personal data of over 26.5 million people was...
- Blog posts 2006-06-19
- OMB goes to the mat to save e-government programs
- Faced with suspicion by its congressional funders, e-Government is getting basically a last hearing during the the current budget process, Government Computer News reports. Agencies are slated to swap a little more than $192.9 million dollars among themselves to keep 19 E-Government...
- Blog posts 2006-02-08
- E-rulemaking dies from lack of funding
- After a hard day's work, there nothing like coming home and curling up with 15,000 documents posted by 150 federal agencies at the new Federal Docket Management System website. The Bush administration has been working hard to implement an electronic docket system to facilitate comments, viewing and retrieval of ...
- Blog posts 2006-01-11
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- FDA fake ad to test real ones
- Pending OMB approval, the agency would create a phony blood pressure pill, then run ads touting its benefits and risks in various ways, and finally test consumer responses to the ads. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Leaked Pentagon doc slams Lockheed
- A leaked Pentagon report said Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest defense contractor, failed to "provide the requisite definition and discipline to properly plan and control complex, multi-billion dollar weapon systems acquisition programs." This allegation casts doubt on Lockheed's ability to manage large programs, including major IT...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Who keeps failing their FISMA compliance?
- The recently released U.S Federal Computer Security Report Card for 2008, indicates that several critical to national security departments continue failing to implement the Federal Information Security Management Act FISMA. From a cyber espionage perspective, the lack of prioritization of departments that must...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Self-Contradictory Government IT Failure Report
- The Office of Management and Budget OMB reports that the number of federal government high-risk IT projects has declined since the start of this year. This information is presented in two reports: the quarterly project High Risk List and the Management Watch List. These materials can be found here.The current...
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
- Are Your People Ready to Telework, Work and Collaborate Securely - Away From the Office?
- Whether trying to address OMB telework mandates, address COOP requirements or prepare for a natural disaster, federal telework needs are growing. Government employees want to be productive when they are out of the office through a secure connection. Microsoft has new software, today, that can enable telework solutions so one...
- Webcasts 2007-05-16
- Commerce lost 1,100 laptops
- How many laptops has the Commerce Department lost? One thousand, one hundred, the agency revealed today - including 250 from the Census Bureau. Those contained personal information like names, incomes and Social Security numbers. The revelations comes only because the House Committee on Government Reform requested that agencies...
- Blog posts 2006-09-22
- Federal IT security is crap. Why?
- How to explain the crappy state of federal IT security? And more importantly what to do about it? Zach Goldfarb's piece in The Washington Post today suggests some answers to both those questions. Why are federal agencies seeing so many breaches? First, because they are under almost constant...
- Blog posts 2006-07-18
- Senate tax proposal under scrutiny
- Senate tax proposal under scrutinyI wouldn't give them my email addressI get enough spam without giving my email address to the IRS.OK ZDNET, WHYare you seemingly unable to format an article for print as a single file, so that we may print it on less paper. The article on the...
- Discussion threads 2006-07-06
- OMB: E-gov flailing as Congress withholds funding
- Federal agencies are failing to make progress in e-government initiatives, and Congress' unwillingness to fund the programs is a chief reason why, the Office of Management and Budget said in its Executive Branch Management Scorecard for the quarter ending March 31, 2006. Federal Computer Week reports: OMB...
- Blog posts 2006-05-05
- SSA's E-Vital program designed to stop payments to the dead
- The musty smell of the Social Security records office may soon be replaced by the happy whirr of a supercomputer processing 2.5 million paper death certificates annually if a new web-based system is installed, reports Federal Computer Week. The current process for submitting and processing death certificates is cumbersome...
- Blog posts 2006-04-24
- Federal government pulling back from the Web
- Government information is disappearing from the public Web. That, says Aliya Sternstein in this week's Federal Computer Week, is one thing government officials and public critics can agree on. As to whether this is a good, necessary thing or a bad, unnecessary thing, there is no end of...
- Blog posts 2006-03-02
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