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BRAC panel adds bases to closure list
July 19, 2005 Members of the independent base closure commission voted Tuesday to add several military installations to the Pentagon's list of facilities that the panel will consider recommending for closure or realignment in the coming weeks. The Brunswick Naval Air Station in Maine and the Naval Broadway Complex in San Diego were ...
GAO again slams agencies' cybersecurity efforts
July 19, 2005 Congressional auditors have given federal agencies a harsh rebuke for failing to implement laws intended to guard government computers from electronic attacks. Finding "pervasive weaknesses" in the information security policies of all 24 major agencies studied, a recent Government Accountability Office report (GAO-05-552) concluded that the agencies' poor performance could ...
Pentagon officials defend base closure recommendations
July 18, 2005 Defense Department officials defended Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's base closing decisions on the day before the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure and Commission votes on whether other bases should be added. BRAC panelists questioned Pentagon officials during a public hearing called to examine why bases such as Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard ...
Vendors challenge claim that eTravel cuts out small firms
July 18, 2005 The vendors for the General Services Administration's eTravel Service are contesting claims that an elite group of travel agencies will dominate the government travel booking business if the program is fully implemented. Funding for GSA's eTravel program was blocked by the House in the 2006 Transportation-Treasury appropriations bill (H.R. 3058) ...
Former House Speaker recommends public-private partnership for National Zoo
July 15, 2005 Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., told a congressional panel Wednesday that the Smithsonian Institution should turn management of the National Zoo over to a public-private partnership. Gingrich's zoo proposal was one of 20 for improving the management of agencies and the civilian workforce that he recommended to the House ...
Senators to take up proposal to nix GSA's eTravel system
July 12, 2005 Legislation that could stop implementation of the General Services Administration's eTravel Service program moved to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Monday. The primary backers of an amendment to the 2006 Transportation-Treasury appropriations bill (H.R. 3058) that bars GSA from spending money on the eTravel program -- a group of four ...
DHS information security plans lacking, GAO says
July 11, 2005 The Homeland Security Department has yet to establish an adequate information security program, congressional auditors found after spending nearly a year reviewing its cybersecurity policies and plans. Since the formation of Homeland Security in 2003, the department has struggled to manage its various components' computer systems, according to a new ...
GSA solicits ideas for improving purchase card program
July 8, 2005 The General Services Administration wants new ideas for administering its purchase card program. The contracts that support the governmentwide credit card plan SmartPay, which is used by agencies to purchase more than $24 billion in goods and services, expire Nov. 29, 2008, and GSA wants advice on where the program ...
House vote cuts GSA’s eTravel program
July 7, 2005 The General Services Administration's governmentwide electronic travel program was placed on the congressional chopping block last week, due to fears that the program eliminates opportunities for small travel agencies to do business with the government. An amendment to the Transportation-Treasury appropriations bill (H.R. 3058), introduced June 30 by Rep. Nydia ...
Defense employees to get anti-spyware software
July 6, 2005 Computers used by Defense Department employees will be upgraded with software to fight spyware, under a recently awarded $6.9 million contract. The contract, awarded to Science Applications International Corp. in San Diego, includes the installation of the software on 4 million computers used by Defense employees, including home computers of ...
