Reporter's Notebook
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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.
July 22, 2019 -
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.
July 01, 2019 -
Military spouses can now qualify for $500 in reimbursement.
July 01, 2019 -
After missing the mark last year, the Army thinks it will get the soldiers it needs in 2019.
July 01, 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.
July 01, 2019 -
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.
July 01, 2019 -
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.
June 17, 2019 -
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.
June 17, 2019 -
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.
June 10, 2019 -
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?
June 10, 2019 -
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.
May 20, 2019 -
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.
May 20, 2019 -
OMB submitted six legislative proposals to establish an Acquisition Modernization Test Board, and to bring defense and civilian agencies under the same rules.
May 20, 2019 -
HUD and Energy Department IT executives say they are applying lessons from failed proposals to new ones that they will submit to the TMF Board.
May 13, 2019 -
FEMA named Lytwaive Hutchinson to replace Adrian Gardner as its new CIO while Reynold Schweickhardt joined GSA as a senior technology advisor.
May 13, 2019