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Smaller IT budget doesn't stop FDIC from modernizing
Russ Pittman, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's chief information officer and director of the Division of IT, said he asked for a technology budget that is eight percent less in 2013 because the agency completed several large scale projects.
May 23, 2013
Tags: technology , FDIC , Russ Pittman , agile development , budget , Ask the CIO ,
Congress pressures agencies to speed up office consolidations
Members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management want to know why the NRC spent millions of dollars to renovate office space it may never use. DHS and HHS were praised by the committee for their approach to consolidating office space.
Tags: GSA , NRC , management , real estate , real property , Freeze the Footprint , House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee , Dorothy Robyn , Lou Barletta , HHS , DHS , Ned Holland , Jeffery Orner , William Borchardt
Data breach puts DHS employees at risk of identity theft
The Homeland Security Department alerted employees in its headquarters office, and its Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement components that a vendor processing background investigations may have exposed personal data. DHS emphasizes there is no evidence of any lost or stolen information.
Tags: DHS , cybersecurity , technology , workforce ,
FedRAMP achieves another cloud security milestone
HHS approves Amazon Web Services for meeting security requirements under the Federal Risk Authorization Management Program. The company's secure documents are available for other agencies to review to help accelerate their move to the cloud.
Tags: technology , cybersecurity , GSA , Dave McClure , FedRAMP , cloud computing , Teresa Carlson , Amazon Web Services , Management of Change Conference , ACT-IAC , HHS ,
OMB reworking financial system requirements to focus on outcomes, not inputs
The administration is expected to release a new directive in the coming weeks to update Circular A-127, which defines how agencies operate their financial systems. The new guidance is expected to open the market up to vendors and make it easier for agencies to transition to shared service providers.
Tags: technology , shared services , Adam Goldberg , Treasury , OMB , Keith Trippie , DHS , Gwynne Kostin , GSA , Kirit Amin , Commerce , Management of Change Conference , ACT-IAC ,
Bonuses to senior execs under fire at GSA, other agencies
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and the GSA inspector general released separate, but related, reports that show GSA abused its authority to give Senior Executive Service (SES) members bonuses between 2009 and 2011. GSA official said they have since fixed these problems. McCaskill also found that on average the Labor Department, the Navy and the National Science Foundation handed out more than one bonus per SES employee.
Tags: workforce , pay and benefits , pay , Claire McCaskill , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee , Brian Miller , GSA , Shakeup at GSA , SES , management ,
VA's Gould moves the needle on many of VA's toughest challenges
Scott Gould's last day as the deputy secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department is today. In four years, Gould said he believes VA is a better place and does more to help veterans. He said the claims backlog is unacceptable, but the agency is making progress.
Tags: management , Scott Gould , VA , veterans disability claims backlog , VBMS , labor-management relations , veterans homelessness , exclusive
GAO, OMB spar over whether to measure data center cost savings
Government auditors told House Oversight and Government Affairs members that saving money from closing more than 1,000 data centers needs to be metric. OMB said optimization of core data centers is a more important measure than straight cost savings.
Tags: technology , data center consolidation , OMB , GAO , David Powner , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , Bernie Mazer , Interior , GSA , PortfolioStat ,
DoD wants to know real costs of IT business systems
Beth McGrath, the Defense Department's deputy chief management officer, issued a memo in April creating a new integrated business framework. The goal of the framework is to tie costs to performance and strategy.
Tags: management , technology , DoD , Beth McGrath , budget , Excellence in Government ,
Cyber attacks against FederalNewsRadio.com, WTOP.com part of growing trend
The company says both sites have been scrubbed of malware and vulnerabilities have been closed. The "drive-by" attack that affected the sites is a growing type of cyber hack that looks for holes in popular websites. FederalNewsRadio.com and WTOP.com are available again to users of all Internet browsers.
Tags: technology , cybersecurity , Joel Oxley , John Spaulding , Symantec , Mandiant , SANS Institute , Johannes Ullrich , Alma Cole , Robbins-Gioia ,
