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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...

Tags: Project, Podcast, Agency, Information Technology, OMB, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Government, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Marketing, Michael Krigsman

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...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Agency, Privacy, Center For Democracy And Technology, Wikipedia, OMB, Advertising & Promotion, Government, Wiki, Marketing, Online Communications, Richard Koman

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...

Tags: Banking, Government, Operational accounting, Social Security, NP Problem, social security number, agency, SSN, OMB

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...

Tags: OMB, Privacy

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...

Tags: agency, information technology, David Powner, OMB

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...

Tags: agency, OMB

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...

Tags: OMB, FISMA, password

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...

Tags: agency, e-government, OMB

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 ...

Tags: agency, OMB

Blog posts 2006-01-11

Additional Resources

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

Tags: FDA, Advertisement, Federal Government, Government, 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...

Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., Pentagon, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Performance Management, Productivity, Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Investment, Finance, Michael Krigsman

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...

Tags: Compliance, FISMA, Dancho Danchev

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...

Tags: Information Technology, Government, Michael Krigsman

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...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Webcasts 2007-05-16

Pkware Case Study: Federal Government Agency #5

The client is a large Federal Government agency providing reliable and cost-effective Information Technology IT solutions to achieve effective mission performance delivery for its extended agencies. The challenge was compliance with OMB Mandate 06-16 for removable media. It deployed PartnerLink/SecureZIP for z/OS which used AES 256-bit encryption ensured compliance with...

Tags: Agency, PKWare, Government, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Case studies 2007-02-22

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...

Tags: Social Security, agency, government, laptop computer

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...

Tags: agency, Tom Davis

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...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax, income, tax proposal, e-mail address, U.S. Senate

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...

Tags: e-Gov, U.S. Congress

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...

Tags: E-Vital, SSA

Blog posts 2006-04-24