Reporter's Notebook
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Trevor Rudolph is leaving the White House after spending the last four-plus years as the chief of OMB’s Cyber and National Security Unit. IT executives at the GPO and SEC also are on the move.
November 07, 2016 -
Interior CIO Sylvia Burns shined a brighter light on the agency’s implementation of DHS’ continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program in the wake of auditors saying the effort was "immature."
October 24, 2016 -
Three experts develop 12 recommendations based on interviews with CIOs and senior IT managers to measure all seven facets of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act.
October 24, 2016 -
The General Services Administration highlighted its progress since April around a series of initiatives designed to make schedule contracting more streamlined and efficient.
October 24, 2016 -
The General Services Administration’s 18F organization is reviewing bids of a solicitation to provide identity proofing and fraud detection for its Login.gov portal. But RFQ already is raising some concerns about the initiative.
October 17, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget’s Dave Mader said the demand for shared services is driving the government back to consider private sector providers after several years of focusing on the government only.
October 17, 2016 -
New preliminary data from Deltek’s GovWin shows agencies spent only $120 million on cloud computing in 2016 despite it being six years since OMB’s cloud-first policy.
October 17, 2016 -
Industry can no longer protest civilian agency task and delivery orders worth more than $10 million to the GAO after the Senate didn’t pass a bill that would’ve extended the authority permanently.
October 11, 2016 -
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy issued a draft circular to institutionalize category management, but some experts question whether the initiative needs more time before putting into policy.
October 11, 2016 -
NAPA and Heritage release papers promoting evidence-based policymaking while the Reason Foundation highlights the lack of public-private competition under Circular A-76.
October 11, 2016 -
Multiple sources confirm that software giant Oracle will no longer sell directly or indirectly through the IT schedule program.
September 26, 2016 -
The Pentagon is developing a secure cloud computing architecture that will create a standard approach for boundary and application level security for commercial services.
September 26, 2016 -
Vendors who won a spot on the Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTs) contracts received the notice to proceed, but the Alliant 2 solicitation faces another protest.
September 26, 2016 -
The Office of Personnel Management is expected to launch the National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB) on Oct. 1 with eight new functions.
September 19, 2016 -
The Modernization Government Technology Act received approval from the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Sept. 15 and will likely get voted on by the full House on Sept. 20.
September 19, 2016