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Federal Desktop Core Configuration Statement of Direction: FDCC stands for Federal Desktop Core Configuration. The FDCC specifies mandatory configuration requirements for the Microsoft Windows XP Pro and Windows Vista operating systems when used on US Government desktop systems. It also specifies mandatory configuration requirements for Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 when used on these operating systems. This paper...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Procurement, FDCC, OMB, Purchasing & Procurement, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Business Operations, Software, Hardware; White papers 2008-10-01
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
The federal budget is finally digital: At 2,200 pages, how many people actually read the whole federal budget the president sends to Congress each year? Definitely not enough to pay for the cost of printing. And more importantly, how can citizens search through it for programs on interest when it's only in print? OK, enough is...; Tags: Budget, U.S. Congress, General Accounting Office, Printing, OMB, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-01-23
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
House passes patent reform, as White House voices objections: The House of Representatives handed the technology industry a big win by passing the Patent Reform Act. The bill changes the way damages for patent infringement are calculated, InfoWorld reports. Under the current scheme, damages are calculated based on the value of the entire product containing the infringing invention....; Tags: Damage, Patent, Patent Infringement, White House, MP3, ZDNet Government; Blog posts 2007-09-09

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
Flush from success in grants database bill, OMB embraces bloggers: Flush from success in grants database bill, OMB embraces bloggersbackfire, schmackfire"using bloggers as advocates could backfire... "Nonsense. This is simply a high-tech version of what Reagan did when the pundits in both parties sought to "control the message" - he went to the public, who generally supported him to...; Tags: Blogging, grants database, blogger, OMB; Discussion threads 2006-10-09
Flush from success in grants database bill, OMB embraces bloggers: Can an administration that famously tries to control the message really handle the rough and tumble world of the blogosphere? Give the Office of Management and Budget credit for trying. Officials were quite pleased that bloggers did the heavy lifting last month to unblock a bill that would...; Tags: OMB, blogger; Blog posts 2006-10-05
In DC, the air is thick with SOA: I frequently take my young daughters to Washington, DC, to see and learn about people and technology that made a difference in our world -- from the Lincoln Memorial to the National Air & Space Museum to the International Spy Museum. Lately, this town has also been the...; Tags: SOA; Blog posts 2006-09-19
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
Almost protecting laptop data: Almost protecting laptop dataOne more thing...The article seems to forget that hard drives on laptops are not all that difficult to remove and read on other machines. So additional effort and policy should be made not simply to secure the data resident in a particular laptop (or desktop!), but to...; Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, OMB; Discussion threads 2006-07-19
OMB: Report data breaches in one hour: In a substantial policy change, all suspected or verified security breaches involving personal data must now be reported within one hour of discovery, according to an OMB memo PDF released last week. While the reporting policy used to be dependent on the type of incident and whether it...; Tags: security, OMB; Blog posts 2006-07-19
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
Is OMB taking aim at CIO Council?: In 1996, Bill Clinton signed an executie order creating the Chief Information Officers Council. Recently, George W. Bush rescinded it. According to an Office of Management and Budget spokesperson, it's just a matter of cleaning up the paperwork, since key provisions have been codified in the Electronic Government...; Tags: Council, OMB; Blog posts 2006-05-16
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...; Tags: OMB Watch; Blog posts 2006-03-02
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
OMB denies knowing about website tracking: The Office of Management and Budget has denied knowing about placing cookies on visitors to the White House website - www.whitehouse.gov - blaming an outside contractor, reports the Associated Press. This announcement comes on the heels of the NSA acknowledging that it tracked users to their site as well....; Tags: White House, OMB; Blog posts 2006-01-02