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New bill could curtail FEHBP prescription drug costs
The FEHBP Drug Integrity, Transparency and Cost Savings Act would give OPM more oversight of contracts and pricing methods. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) said the bill would save the government billions.
Tags: Congress , House , OPM , FEHB , Stephen Lynch , pay and benefits , AFGE , NTEU ,
USDA's Forest Service taking different approach to mobility
Doug Nash, the Forest Service's CIO, said he sees great promise in using a PC-on-a-stick to let employees securely connect back to the network, save data from the field and do work from anywhere. Forest Service will release a mobile strategy and architecture in the coming weeks.
February 21, 2013
Tags: technology , Doug Nash , USDA , Forest Service , cloud computing , mobile computing , BYOD , enterprisewide services , operational efficiences , Ask the CIO ,
Graduate School USA bringing EA back into vogue
Brian Moran, a lecturer at the Graduate School
USA, is leading an effort to reinvigorate the
enterprise architecture curriculum.
February 28, 2013
Tags: technology , management , training , Brian Moran , Graduate School USA , enterprise architecture , cloud computing , Ask the CIO , Top Leaders in Federal Service
Baker leaving VA a transformed IT organization
Roger Baker's last day as the Veterans Affairs
Department's assistant secretary for
information and technology and chief
information officer is March 8. He said the
agency manages and oversees IT much differently than it did four years ago.
March 7, 2013
Tags: Ask the CIO , technology , VA , Roger Baker , veterans benefits claim , IT efficiencies , PMAS
Sharpe sets 10 priorities to assure success at FAS
Tom Sharpe, the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at the General Services Administration, is focusing on 10 areas to make the organization more responsive and efficient. Sharpe also plans to meet with vendors and employees to improve their satisfaction with FAS.
Tags: acquisition , GSA , Tom Sharpe , Dan Tangherlini , Acquisition Excellence Conference , industry , strategic sourcing , FSA
Agency cybersecurity deficiencies remain as attacks reach all-time high
Federal agencies reported more than 48,000 cyber attacks in 2012 and continue to struggle to defend their networks, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. Senators are now renewing their push for comprehensive cyber legislation, which would include an update to FISMA.
Tags: technology , cybersecurity , FISMA , Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Co , Tom Coburn , Tom Carper , DHS , Janet Napolitano , cyber executive order , OMB , Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Co
House Oversight Committee passes 12 bills affecting agency management
Including the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday passed 12 bills focusing on a variety of agency management issues.
Tags: House , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , IT acquisition ,
Issa's IT reform bill moves through committee, concerns still remain
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) with little debate and no amendments. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the bill's author and chairman of the committee, said the provisions to give CIOs more budget control and the IT project and program management improvements will have a big impact on how agencies spend money on technology.
Tags: technology , Darrell Issa , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , acquisition , industry , Mike Hettinger , Software and Information Industry Association , TechAmerica , IT reform , Project management , Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act , open source , strategic sourcing , exclusive
Carrying On with Continuity of Operations
More than 80 percent of the federal systems
count on private sector critical
infrastructure to work.
Should one of the telecommunications,
electricity or other providers be hacked or go
down from a natural disaster, agency mission
would be in peril.
Just take last summer's Derecho that impacted
the Washington DC area. One agency lost their
connection to the Internet for some time
because of the storm even though their
infrastructure was in the cloud.
Over the past decade or more, agencies have
applied the lessons learned from the
assortment of man-made and natural disasters
that have impacted their services to keep
their services running as smoothly as
possible.
But with the emergence of cloud computing,
virtualization, mobile computing and other
technologies, what should agencies keep in
mind to ensure the continuity of operations?
How is the idea of COOP and disaster recovery
changing?
The panel, Carrying on with Continuity of
Operations, will look at how agencies have
implemented COOP and disaster recovery over
the past decade and where they need to go
next.
Tags: Symantec , technology , COOP , Carrying on with Continuity of Operations , Eric Hennessey , Gary Galloway , Reynold Schweickhardt , Tod Henby
GSA in desperate need of funds to repair federal buildings
For the third year in a row, Congress is unlikely to give GSA enough money to repair and maintain federal buildings. Acting GSA Administrator Dan Tangherlini told House lawmakers Tuesday that the government isn't spending the 2-to-4 percent industry average to keep buildings operating well.
Tags: management , GSA , Dan Tangherlini , DHS , federal property management , House Appropriations Committee , Freeze the Footprint ,
