Reporter's Notebook
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The General Services Administration withdrew an RFQ for data analytics after working on it for more than 18 months.
February 15, 2016 -
Charlie Armstrong called it a career after spending the last seven-plus years as the assistant commissioner for the Office of Information and Technology and CIO for CBP.
February 15, 2016 -
Other agency CIOs should take notice for how House lawmakers focused on the $250,000 paid to the Education Department CIO despite what they call poor overall performance, most specifically around cybersecurity.
February 08, 2016 -
Sandy Peavy retired from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center as its CIO. Former EPA IT executive Brand Niemann passed away at 74.
February 08, 2016 -
When U.S. Transportation Command transitioned a nearly $1 billion contract to move servicemembers’ vehicles around the world to a new company a year and a half ago, seemingly everything that could have gone wrong actually went wrong.
February 08, 2016 -
One of the Army’s key objectives is to bring reliable network access to smaller units at the company level and below. But DoD’s Office of Operational Test and Evaluation found the task has been complicated by the fact that too many of the systems the service is fielding are not exactly plug-and-play.
February 08, 2016 -
The latest reshuffling of the organizational chart is born out the current concerns among members of Congress that once DoD creates new bureaucracies they can never be shut down.
February 08, 2016 -
OFPP Administrator Anne Rung plans to update a 2011 guidance requiring agencies to submit business cases before moving forward with a multiple award contract.
February 01, 2016 -
The National Security Agency has retained almost 97 percent of its employees in 2015.
February 01, 2016 -
Scott Orbach, the founder of EZGSA, died while on vacation in Hawaii.
February 01, 2016 -
NSA's Debora Plunkett has retired after 31 years in government, working in cybersecurity and diversity.
February 01, 2016 -
A draft policy under development by OMB would require agencies to create an inventory of, and buy mobile devices and services only from, GSA's governmentwide contract in order to get better control over $1.2 billion in annual spend.
January 25, 2016 -
GSA awarded six vendors a spot on a blanket purchase agreement to provide integration and implementation services for Salesforce tools.
January 25, 2016 -
The CIO Council is trying to bring the capital planning and investment control (CPIC) process in line with the desire by agencies to use agile development for IT programs.
January 25, 2016 -
Encryption is coming, although no one can quite say when. As part of the Defense Department’s role in building a new IT system for background investigations, it will encrypt the data it handles with techniques appropriate to a national security system, officials said Friday during a hastily arranged pre-blizzard conference call.
January 25, 2016