Reporter's Notebook
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At least some of DoD's enterprise resource planning costs have been driven by duplicative hardware and other infrastructure investments, and the Defense Information Systems Agency thinks it can help.
January 25, 2016 -
People who hold driver's licenses from the handful of states that have not yet complied to the REAL ID Act are now being denied entrance to military bases.
January 25, 2016 -
The Air Force has just declared full operational capability on its first-ever cyber weapons system.
January 25, 2016 -
The Defending America’s Small Contractors Act of 2016 would make the ability to protest task orders worth more than $10 million permanent.
January 18, 2016 -
The Federal Risk Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) received specific funding for the first year and is conducting pilots try to improve the approval process of cloud service providers.
January 18, 2016 -
OMB will issue two new policies in the coming months. One for enterprise software licensing, which currently is in draft, and another on IT mobile services.
January 18, 2016 -
Greg Garcia is taking over as the new chief information officer at the Army Corps of Engineers. He is one of several new CIOs agencies named over the last month.
January 18, 2016 -
The Senate IT working group is circulating a discussion draft of a cloud bill to improve FedRAMP and create a new fund at GSA to help pay for cloud transitions.
January 11, 2016 -
The annual IT budget guidance doesn't include any new initiatives, but several agency CIOs said they were pleased with OMB's support of their IT budget requests.
January 11, 2016 -
The 4th quarter update on Performance.gov details progress and plans for 2016.
January 11, 2016 -
The most read reporter's notebooks in 2015 had a variety of topics, but cybersecurity and personnel changes seemed to be most popular.
January 11, 2016 -
Beginning on Dec. 8, the Defense Security Service all but ceased its processing of personnel security investigation requests for government contractors, and by the time things were up and running again on Jan. 5, a new backlog of approximately 10,000 cases had built up.
January 11, 2016 -
The Air Force said last week that it has about 1,000 civilian “overages” across all of its major commands, and needs to use reduction in force (RIF) authorities to eliminate those positions.
January 11, 2016 -
We like to call attention to significant departures or additions to government service in this space. There were several of them over the past week
January 11, 2016 -
Here are the 10 DoD Reporter's Notebook postings which garnered the most interest among our readers during 2015.
January 11, 2016