Digital Government
Raines leaving as OMB director
Franklin Raines announced today that he will step down from his post as director of the Office of Management and Budget. President Clinton, in a statement given today at the White House, said he intended to nominate OMB Deputy Director Jack Lew as the new OMB director.
Digital Government
Council chair to be 'facilitator'
When John Koskinen takes over as chairman of the President's Year 2000 Conversion Council next month, he plans to coordinate Year 2000 work among agencies and to work with the private sector to ensure Year 2000 fixes are compatible with federal systems. Koskinen, whom President Clinton this month a
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White House Turns Attention to Local Government Y2K Crisis; Forms Federal Council
White House Turns Attention to Local Government Y2K Crisis; Forms Federal Council
Digital Government
New industry estimates push Y2K costs skyward
Fixing the Year 2000 date change in the federal government's computer systems will cost more than twice what the Clinton administration has predicted according to a new industry study disclosed to Federal Computer Week last week. Federal Sources Inc. a McLean Va. market research firm predicts the g
Digital Government
Five vendors seize 7-year SISTIR pact
The Food and Drug Administration this month awarded a $200 million contract to five vendors that will provide the agency with nearly all its information technology needs into the next century. The sevenyear Strategic Information Systems Technical Integration Resources (SISTIR) contract was awarded
Digital Government
Budget crunch forces HCFA to trim IT system
The Health Care Financing Administration last week disclosed that because of budgetary problems it has scaled back its plans for a massive computer system that will give the agency tighter control over the huge Medicare health program for the elderly. HCFA officials declined to comment on how they
Digital Government
Justice rethinks JCN, sets stage to test companies through pilots
The Justice Department has discarded the request for proposals for a $200 million nationwide highspeed telecommunications network pact in favor of buying services off an existing departmentwide contract. DOJ officials will delay the Justice Consolidated Network (JCN) contract up to 18 months so th
Digital Government
Proposals may create IT burden
Longawaited proposals released this month to shore up the Social Security program would require the federal government to invest possibly billions of dollars in a computer system to monitor the investments. The Advisory Council on Social Security a 13member panel that was scheduled to report a ye
Digital Government
Panel mulls change in federal role
A panel of public and private experts in geospatial processing began meeting last month to consider whether civilian agencies should cut back on geographic information programs and services funded by the federal government which are estimated to cost tens of millions of dollars a year. The group or
Acquisition
Blizzard of awards in 30-day forecast
Although the holiday season traditionally is a quiet one in the nation's capital the next month could be busy for information technology procurement offices with agencies scheduled to award more than a dozen large IT contracts with a combined value approaching $10 billion.
Digital Government
FBI declares IAFIS costs, schedule are under control
The FBI is expected to submit a report to Congress this week indicating that the cost and development of its massive fingerprint identification system are under control after reporting sharp budget overruns and delays earlier this year.
Digital Government
RFP seeks GIS integration
The Open GIS Consortium Inc. a nonprofit group working to establish industry and governmentwide geographic information systems standards is calling for vendors to propose how to tie together disparate GIS systems. The organization issued a request for proposals earlier this year and expects vendor
Digital Government
NIMA launches $600 million digital mapping project
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) last month kicked off the development of a $600 million eightyear effort to build a digital mapping infrastructure that will provide mapping capabilities to not only the Defense Department but also to civilian agencies. NIMA formerly the Defense Mappi
Digital Government
INS jump-starts student mentoring program
The Immigration and Naturalization Service this month kicked off a new mentoring program to train high school students particularly those in underprivileged areas on computers. The agency also plans to make available next month a howto handbook for other federal agencies interested in starting suc
Digital Government
Schedule protest seen as test case
In what may become the first major legal test case for recent procurement reforms a General Accounting Office protest filed last month challenges an information technology purchase from the General Services Administration multipleaward schedule. The protest filed by Intelligent Decisions Inc. cent
Digital Government
FBI seeks interim solution
The FBI plans to award three contracts that will give it access to state and local digital fingerprint files a move observers say is a stopgap measure to provide the bureau with limited searchandmatch fingerprint capabilities as it struggles to get its $521 million Integrated Automated Fingerprin
Digital Government
IT director challenges bureaucratic inertia
For Frank Reilly director of information systems methods and support at the General Accounting Office the federal government's frequent inability to design and develop information technology systems has the same root cause as the problems that afflicted the ancient Babylonians a subject Reilly spen
Digital Government
Panel hopes to integrate federal, state welfare data
Information technology experts are to meet this week under the purview of a recently formed federal/state committee to discuss ways in which various databases can be linked in order to cut the cost of welfare programs. The Management Technical Advisory Group (MTAG) formed last month by the Social S
Digital Government
Justice joins fray with ITSS award
The Justice Department last week pitched its hat into the rapidly expanding market for governmentwide contracts selecting eight vendors to provide a wide range of support services to the department and other agencies under its fiveyear Information Technology Support Services (ITSS) 2001 contract.
Digital Government
EVP's success boosts Clinton's record
The Immigration and Naturalization Service's yearold Employment Verification Pilot (EVP) has successfully thwarted thousands of illegal immigrants from taking jobs at American companies that have volunteered to test the new system INS officials said. The success of the program which the INS will o
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