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DHS officials detail plan to unify IT acquisitions
August 16, 2005 The Homeland Security Department Tuesday began the process of consolidating $6 billion worth of information technology acquisitions into two programs with the purpose of creating a departmentwide IT infrastructure. Addressing industry representatives in Washington, DHS Chief Procurement Officer Greg Rothwell said the consolidation will create a support services program known ...
Legislation proposed to upgrade federal officers' status
August 12, 2005 A bill pending in Congress would upgrade the status of about 30,000 federal officers in more than two dozen agencies, allowing them to receive full law enforcement benefits and retirement. The primary beneficiaries of the bill would be inspectors and officers in the Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and ...
OMB finalizes charge card guidance
August 11, 2005 The Office of Management and Budget finalized updated purchase and travel card rules last week, requiring agencies to develop a charge card management plan, perform credit checks on cardholders and use strategic sourcing for card purchases. In a memo dated Aug. 5, OMB Director Joshua B. Bolten instructed all executive ...
Senator mulls cutting Pentagon’s $474 million travel system
August 10, 2005 The chairman of a Senate financial management subcommittee is considering an amendment that would block funding for the Defense Department's Web-based travel reservation system because of the way the contract with Northrop Grumman Corp. was negotiated. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., believes that $40 million to $50 million could be saved ...
Homeland Security agency deploys ID tags in visitor forms
August 9, 2005 The Customs and Border Protection bureau has embedded forms filled out by visitors with radio frequency identification tags in hopes of reducing lines at U.S. entry and exit points. Under the Homeland Security Department's US VISIT program, the electronic transmitters, known as RFID tags, have been placed in the standard ...
Computer security not a telework hindrance, says advocacy group
August 8, 2005 The security of the government's computer systems is not an impediment to expanding agencies' use of telework, says a report from a cybersecurity public policy advocacy group. The 12-page report urges agencies to allow employees to work from home using high-speed Internet connections and telephone lines. Fifteen years of pilot ...
Government computers top target for cyberattacks
August 5, 2005 Cyberattacks on computer systems escalated in the first half of 2005 and government agencies were targeted more than any other business sector, according to a new report. Attacks on the government, financial services, manufacturing and health care industries have risen 50 percent since the beginning of the year, according to ...
Assaults on Park Service officers increase
August 5, 2005 Federal officers serving in the National Park Service were assaulted 111 times in 2004, an increase of 13 incidents from two years earlier, according to agency records. Park Service data obtained by the Washington-based watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility shows that 33 of the incidents resulted in injury ...
EPA scientists criticize agency management
August 3, 2005 A majority of scientists in the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development laboratories and centers do not trust their supervisors, do not believe that management considers their interests and do not think managers are competent to deal with difficult situations, an internal survey shows. The results of the ...
GSA alters method for setting hotel per diems
August 2, 2005 The General Services Administration is modifying the methodology it uses to set per diem rates for fiscal 2006. To establish the new rates, GSA travel officials will use data from April 2004 through March 2005. To set the current rates, GSA relied mostly on data from calendar year 2003. An ...
