Reporter’s Notebook

The Homeland Security Department and the General Services Administration released details about program and policies that outline the future of major acquisition efforts.

The Department of Health and Human Services decided in June that its Program Support Office would immediately stop offering assisted acquisition services, impacting dozens of agencies.

The CIO Council’s Application Rationalization Playbook provides a six-step approach for how agencies can more efficiently manage their IT portfolios and decide whether to keep software in house or take it to the cloud.

Military spouses can now qualify for $500 in reimbursement.

After missing the mark last year, the Army thinks it will get the soldiers it needs in 2019.

The Professional Services Council, an industry association, asked the Senate Appropriations Committee to limit the type of work Federally-Funded Research and Development Centers can do for DoD.

The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations’ report on the cybersecurity at eight agencies highlights systemic problems over the last decade and offers several recommendations.

GAO ranked 10 federal systems in most need of modernization and they range from 8-to-51 years old and cost about $337 million annually to maintain.

As part DoD’s move to shore up its supply chain, the Pentagon is developing with industry and other experts a new cybersecurity maturity model that is borrowing from standards like ISO 9000.

New analysis from GovConRx found agencies are giving vendors “satisfactory” past performance ratings more often than any other rating because the system is too burdensome and time consuming.

Justice Department CIO Joe Klimavicz is gaining additional responsibilities as chief data officer, begging the question whether there is a difference between information and data?

Lee Becker, the chief of staff of VA’s Veterans Experience Office, said winning a Service to Citizens Award shows just how far the agency has come over the past five years, and how much more work there is to do to earn the trust of veterans.

DISA releases a request for information to industry for a government owned, contractor operated approach to back-office IT services and network consolidation and optimization.

OMB submitted six legislative proposals to establish an Acquisition Modernization Test Board, and to bring defense and civilian agencies under the same rules.