Interior Department
-
Secretary Salazar issued a memo to give oversight of the IT budget to the chief information officer. The memo also removes the CIO title from the bureaus and renames them as assistant directors for information resources. Observers say this move by Interior has been long-overdue.
December 22, 2010 -
Interior CIO Bernie Mazer tells Jason Miller about the new expanded role of the CIO.
December 21, 2010 -
The administration said its review of 16 of the 26 high-risk technology programs led to one termination, eight programs are scaled back and seven projects have accelerated delivery timetables. OMB said agencies saved or avoided spending $1.3 billion over the life of these 16 projects.
December 09, 2010 -
 Google has filed a lawsuit against the Interior Department in an attempt to prevent the agency from going ahead with bid requests to host a cloud-based electronic messaging system. According to a lawsuit filed in U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Google says they met with Interior Department officials on several occasions asking them to [...]
November 23, 2010 -
PEER claims a new directive for the agency that replaced MMS is diminishing scientific integrity by screening employees\' findings.
November 18, 2010 -
The deputy administrator for E-Gov and IT in OMB will take on a deputy program manager role to help improve information sharing across law enforcement agencies.
November 15, 2010 -
Federal agencies tend to favor brands they know, Washington Business Journal reports. FAR is supposed to eliminate brand preference, but that doesn’t always happens, one industry expert said in the article. “I think concern about…
November 12, 2010 -
Google is suing the U.S. government for what it claims is unfairly requiring the Web-based document system it uses to be part of Microsoft.
November 02, 2010 -
Interior\'s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) committed to helping the nation reach its clean energy future. BLM\'s Ray Brady tells us how that could happen.
October 27, 2010 -
The Interior Department has created a new agency to collect billions of dollars in royalties for onshore and offshore drilling. We get details from Interior\'s Rhea Suh.
October 22, 2010 -
The administration has lifted the moratorium on deepwater drilling, but Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu will not lift her hold on Jack Lew\'s nomination to lead OMB. For details, we turn to The Hill\'s Ben Geeman
October 13, 2010 -
Rep. Jim Moran tells Federal News Radio if you take 395 through Arlington, your commute may be about to get two to three hours longer every day.
October 05, 2010 -
Troubled IT projects are getting top-level attention. The kind of attention CIOs would like to avoid. Interior\'s CIO Bernard Mazer gives us a progress report.
September 24, 2010 -
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra said Justice and Interior are the latest examples of agencies making hard decisions about underperforming IT projects. Justice canceled its litigation case management system after almost four years. Interior rescoped its Incident Management Analysis and Reporting System.
September 20, 2010 -
Scandalized by federal regulators who had sex with oil company executives and negotiated with them for jobs, the agency that oversees offshore drilling is imposing a first-ever ethics policy that bars inspectors from dealing with a company that employs a family member or personal friend. Attorney Debra Roth has details.
September 02, 2010