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Google, Onix withdrawal protest of Interior cloud email award
The two protestors said in court documents Interior has agreed to take steps to fix potential contracting issues. But the Justice Department disputed Google and Onix's claims saying no agreement has been reached. Interior hired Softchoice to provide Microsoft software for email and collaboration in the cloud almost a year ago.
Tags: technology , industry , contracting , Google , Onix , Softchoice , Microsoft , Susan Braden , bid protest , Jason Miller , cloud computing , Email-as-a-service
Analysis: The unusual case of the Park Police firing
Attorney Debra Roth explains why Teresa Chamber's case is so unusual.
Tags: Teresa Chambers , Debra Roth , Park Police , MSPB , Dorobek Insider ,
Analysis: Who will inspect the inspectors?
Drilling regulators have been so close to the industry they've been accepting gifts from oil and gas companies and even negotiating to go work for them. Debra Roth, attorney for Shaw Bransford and Roth, explains the revolving door and what can be done about it.
Tags: Federal Drive , pay and benefits , MMS , Debra Roth , Legal Loop , Suzanne Kubota
Chambers to return as Park Police Chief on Jan. 31
Teresa Chambers will be reinstated as head of the U.S. Park Police after she was terminated more than seven years ago.
Tags: Park Police , Teresa Chambers , MLRB , Sal Lauro , Jolie Lee
Chambers reinstated as Park Police chief
Teresa Chambers, fired as U.S. Park Police chief in 2004, has been reinstated, according to a MSPB ruling.
Tags: Teresa Chambers , MSPB
Interior defines new approach to IT
The Interior Department issued its four-year technology transformation plan where it describes how it will save $100 million a year starting in 2016. Interior's roadmap focuses on back office and administrative systems.
Tags: Bernie Mazer , IT reforms , IT , technology , cloud computing , data center consolidation , Ken Salazar , Jason Miller
OMB teeing up financial, HR systems for the cloud
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra said there are more than 1,000 of these back-office systems and moving them to private cloud providers could save billions. Several agencies, including Labor and EEOC, already have moved their financial systems to a private cloud. Kundra envisions an interagency effort similar to the one for email where agencies commit to using a governmentwide contract for these services.
Tags: technology , Vivek Kundra , OMB , GSA , USDA , NRC , EEOC , Labor , cloud computing , e-mail-as-a-service , financial management , human resources management systems , FedRAMP , cybersecurity , Microsoft , Politico , Jason Miller
Four agencies must move to new FM systems
Interior's National Business Center no longer will support CGI's Momentum software forcing NRC, EEOC, FLRB and NTSB to find a new financial management system provider.
Tags: financial management , technology , Andrew Jackson , Darren Ash , NRC , EEOC , NTSB , FLRB , Oracle , CGI , Toni Townes-Whitley , line of business , IT services , Jason Miller
Google's claims of FISMA certification questioned
Microsoft makes court documents public as part of battle to provide cloud services to the Interior Department. Google contends its Google Apps for Government offers more security than FISMA requires.
Tags: technology , industry , GSA , Dave Mihalchik , David Howard , Google , Microsoft , cloud computing , FISMA , cybersecurity , FedRAMP , Email-as-a-service , bid protest , Jason Miller
Kundra pitches more budget authority for CIOs
The federal CIO told House lawmakers that one major reason IT projects fail is the lack of authority agency technology executives have over spending. Kundra said as part of the 25-point IT reform plan, OMB is restricting the roles of all major agency CIOs. He said the Interior Department is the model, and HHS is next.
Tags: technology , management , Vivek Kundra , Jo Ann Emerson , Jose Serrano , OMB , HHS , House Appropriations Committee , role of the CIO , budget authority , Jason Miller
