Defense
Navy intranet chief to retire later this year
Rear Adm. James Godwin helped oversee the extension of the NMCI contract with Texas-based contractor EDS.
Defense
Defense business agency gets Iraq contracting assignment
Business Transformation Agency will head up effort to improve policies and procedures for rebuilding Iraq.
Tech
Feds displaced by flooding offered use of telework centers
Month-long closure of IRS headquarters prompts GSA to open its 14 telework centers to affected employees at no charge.
Tech
House steps up telework requirements at several agencies
Agencies would face financial penalties if they fail to increase the number of employees eligible to work away from the office.
Tech
OMB lists products meeting ID card requirement
Agencies have until late September to finish ordering GSA-approved products to comply with mandate to issue identity cards.
Tech
VA info security chief says he had impossible task
Pedro Cadenas, who abruptly resigned his post, says in more than three years on job, he lacked authority to make substantive changes.
Tech
House member weighing legislation in response to VA data breach
Possibilities include changes to information security law and linking compliance with IT policies to performance reviews.
Tech
VA to issue new directive on employees’ responsibility for data
Class action lawsuit results in order blocking another security directive, including requirement to review agency laptops.
Tech
GAO, Navy add to growing list of federal data breaches
Rash of breaches prompts OMB to release new checklist of information security safeguards.
Defense
Senate vote blocks funding for Defense Travel System
Pentagon's long-awaited departmentwide electronic booking system is once again on the chopping block.
Tech
VA official defends memos restricting IT centralization
Department’s general counsel says he was limited to interpreting the current law and could not make a policy decision.
Defense
Bid to block funds for Defense Travel System fails
The Pentagon's end-to-end booking system escaped a House member’s attempt to shut it down, but a Senate vote looms.
Tech
VA official opposes centralization of IT management
House panel is holding a hearing Thursday to probe the department’s technology management structure.
Defense
VA spends more than $14 million handling data breach
Millions in reprogrammed funds have paid for call center and mass mailing.
Tech
E-gov projects again face cuts on Capitol Hill
OMB has enhanced efforts to communicate benefits of projects, but appropriators remain skeptical.
Tech
VA weighing steps to protect medical records
Subcontractor in India threatened to release 30,000 of the department’s medical records over the Internet last year.
Tech
Report: Telework could bring financial benefit to agencies
But a lack of support is hampering growth of the work-from-home concept in the government, consultants say.
Tech
VA security policies lack enforcement teeth, legislator says
Department directive issued last week restricts the transmission of agency data.
Tech
Auditors blame VA data breach on security flaws
Inspector general reports have noted information security vulnerabilities at the agency since 1997.
Tech
Defense tech agency expands telework program
More than 1,400 of the Defense Information Systems Agency's 5,000 employees now qualify to work away from the office.
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