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DHS develops new cybersecurity metrics

WFED's Jason Miller reports.

Tags: management , technology , cybersecurity , OMB , DHS ,

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Contract Overload: GAO finds continued problems with MACs

Audit agency calls for business cases to justify new multiple award contracts, and a database listing all existing contracts. Sen. McCaskill plans to hold a second hearing on interagency contracting in June.

Tags: contracting , Joseph Lieberman , Susan Collins , Claire McCaskill , Ed Towns , Darrell Issa , GAO , GSA , OFPP , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs , MACs , GWACs , Interagency contracting , Contract Overload

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GSA SLAMs its IT modernization project

Agency tries a new approach to solve problems by bringing together all stakeholders. GSA Administrator Martha Johnson says five parts of the program will be done by July 4.

Tags: technology , management , Martha Johnson , Casey Coleman , GSA , collaboration , SLAM , Management of Change ,

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MOC: GSA 'slam' to improve collaboration

WFED's Jason Miller reports.

Tags: management , GSA , Management of Change 2010 , GSA slam

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TSA ready to move on with ITIP contract

Agency picks CSC for the $489 million IT infrastructure contract for a second time since September. Protest by unsuccessful bidders still possible.

Tags: contracting , Emma Garrison-Alexander , TSA , GAO , CSC , Unisys , General Dynamics , ITIP , IT services ,

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Williams honored with Franke award

Every year, one distinguished federal IT acquisition manager receives the coveted John J. Franke award for career excellence. The award last night went to Jim Williams, who recently retired from the GSA as the Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service.

Tags: management , Dave Wennergren , GSA , DoD , USDA , OMB , Jim Williams , Karen Evans , John Johnson , Sandy Bates , John J. Franke , Management of Change 2010

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GSA reissues RFQ for cloud computing

This is the second attempt to award infrastructure-as-a-service contracts. GSA increase the security requirements to moderate level and requires all vendors to be certified through FedRAMP program.

Tags: technology , contracting , GSA , OMB , cloud computing , infrastructure-as-a-service , storage , virtual machines , Web hosting ,

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TSA picks CSC . . . again

WFED's Jason Miller reports.

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GSA opens up possibility of FTS2001 extension

Vendors pessimistic that agencies can transition all services to Networx by June 2011. GSA says it will decide a few months before the contract ends whether to extend the current telecommunications contract.

Tags: technology , contracting , Steve Kempf , Sanjeev Bhagowalia , Ed Towns , Darrell Issa , Jean Weinberg , Vivek Kundra , GSA , Interior , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , OMB , Interagency Management Council , Qwest , AT&T , Verizon , Diana Gowen , Don Herring , Susan Zeleniak , Networx , FTS 2001 , telecommunications ,

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Why the delay with the transition to Networx?

WFED's Jason Miller reports from Capitol Hill.

Tags: technology , contracting , Networx , Capitol Hill

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