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OMB shifts to real time cybersecurity monitoring
New White House guidance calls for agencies to submit data feeds to OMB's Cyberscope tool. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra hopes the information will give agencies a better idea of vulnerabilities and threats to computer networks. Agencies may have to shift money away from traditional reports to upgrade systems to meet new FISMA requirements.
Tags: technology , cybersecurity , Vivek Kundra , Howard Schmidt , OMB , State , VA , NASA , Justice , DHS , USDA , Treasury , DoD , Alan Paller , FISMA , Real time monitoring , Cyberscope
Sen. Tom Carper learning more about waste, fraud, abuse in Medicare
Fraud and improper payments are on the hit list at agencies across government. One Senate committee is looking at how it's done.
Tags: management , best practices , CMS , Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Co
Agency cybersecurity reporting to get makeover
OMB has launched new tool to automate FISMA reporting. This data will help populate a new cybersecurity dashboard, federal CIO Vivek Kundra says. OMB also wants to collect more specific data around how much and where agencies are spending money on IT security.
Tags: technology , cybersecurity , security , Vivek Kundra , John Streufert , OMB , State , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs , DHS , NIST , CIO Council , metrics , FISMA , dashboard
Senate: Curb abuse of fed contract award fee rollovers
In the private sector, it's not unusual for a vendor to have incentive clauses written into a contract, but in federal contracting, agencies sometimes employ the practice of "rollovers", extending additional opportunities to earn bonuses even to contractors who come up short on their contractual performance. And that is a matter of concern for one Senate oversight committee.
Tags: mngt , contracting , Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management , Government Information , Jeffrey Zients , OMB
USPS: Five days a week?
Rightsizing the Postal Service in an economic downturn.
Tags: mngt , Government Accountability Office , USPS , John Potter , P&B , Senate ,
