Management

OMB appoints technology czar

Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels has appointed Mark Forman, a vice president for e-business at Unisys Corp., to the newly created position of associate director for information technology and e-government.

Managing Technology

The Super Web Site

Magazine

Cyber Cops

Management

Federal acquisition workforce ill-equipped for procurement reforms

The federal acquisition workforce lacks the skills and training to take full advantage of procurement innovations and reforms begun in the early to mid-1990s, according to experts who testified on Capitol Hill Tuesday.

Tech

Federal CIOs don't have the right stuff, officials say

Federal chief information officers are ill-equipped to move the federal government into the information age, a panel of lawmakers and ex-federal officials said Wednesday at a briefing on Capitol Hill.

Tech

Senators up the e-government ante

Two senators on Tuesday proposed a $600 million fund to promote e-government initiatives across all federal agencies for three years.

Tech

Chinese hackers declare war on U.S. Web sites

A Chinese hacker community has declared war on U.S. government and business Web sites, according to a message posted on the hackers’ home page.

Procurement

Bidding Wars