Oversight
Inspectors general detail $11.4 billion in potential savings governmentwide in fiscal 2007
Annual report cites more cooperation, prosecutions and clean audits.
Defense
Army urged to develop process to wage war in cyberspace
Director of electronic warfare calls for a more proactive program to combat enemy information campaigns.
Defense
Hack steered Coast Guard e-learning users to al Jazeera site
Incident shows importance of conducting security assessments of applications, CIO says.
Oversight
IRS failed to adequately protect its networks, IG reports
Security lapses with routers and switches left taxpayer information open to possible access.
Defense
New intelligence sharing strategy shifts from ‘need to share’ to ‘responsibility to provide’
Report calls for secure, collaborative system in which agencies can access and disseminate information.
Defense
VA's chief information officer makes pitch for more funding
Despite strides made, official tells lawmakers that challenges still remain.
Oversight
IBM suspension lifted
Agencies can resume awarding contracts for products and services from the company.
Pay & Benefits
IT security concerns slow telework adoption
Private sector moves ahead of federal government in security measures and technical support.
Oversight
GSA now says resellers not affected by IBM suspension
Federal contractors can continue to sell IBM products under their own contracts.
Oversight
Census to scrap handheld computers for 2010 count
Increased costs and performance issues lead to Commerce secretary’s decision, which will cost the bureau up to $3 billion.
Oversight
GSA official: IBM 'suspension is not punishment'
Resellers to feel the financial pain of company’s disbarment from receiving new federal contracts.
Defense
Watchdog: Homeland Security behind schedule on foreign visitor tracking component
GAO says department still doesn’t have a plan to track air departures from the U.S. by the end of 2008.
Defense
Defense to focus more on content, less on the network
"Content-centric" model will allow the department and civilian agencies to pool information in a more secure way to make better decisions.
Defense
GAO: Weapons systems over budget, overdue, underperforming
Annual assessment of programs shows continued acquisition problems at Defense.
Oversight
Report identifies top 10 management challenges facing next administration
Skyrocketing cost of health care, retirement programs could squeeze out other critical policy priorities, according to think tank.
Oversight
IBM suspended from new federal contracts
With scant details, federal agencies are instructed not to award procurements to the technology giant.
Oversight
GSA will re-evaluate Alliant proposals
Sparked by judge who upheld bid protests, review could delay contract until summer.
Defense
Focus on outcomes will advance Army health care, surgeon general says
Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker says shifting focus away from process will improve health care for soldiers and could cut costs.
Defense
GPO: Article 'misstated' facts of offshoring e-passport production
Congress still concerned about security of work processes for high-tech passports.
Oversight