People

Plunkett: Crafting metrics not too difficult

Expert says a unified theory of performance management is necessary.

Digital Government

The good and the bad of enterprise architecture

Panelists say enterprise architecture is catching on but still requires hard work.

People

Brinkley: BEA ready to transform Pentagon

The time has come in the Defense Department to stop creating a business enterprise architecture and start implementing, a senior DOD official said.

Digital Government

Tiemann touts enterprise architecture

Enterprise architectures in federal agencies are poised to become operational processes governing agency transformation, said a longtime enterprise architecture proponent.

Digital Government

Federal enterprise architecture at a crossroads

If and when it is completed, an operational federal enterprise architecture would represent a triumph of engineering and money.

Digital Government

New IP a go, but no new money

Agencies have until mid-2008 to update their network backbones for IP Version 6 compatibility. But if they were expecting new money to help with the transition, they will be disappointed.

People

OMB considers transition costs for centers providing bad service

Federal customers dissatisfied with third-party financial management services may gain the power to ask service providers to pay them to transfer allegiance to a competitor.

Digital Government

New information sharing model to debut soon

The government task force will deliver an updated enterprise architecture data reference model to the CIO Council in mid-October.

People

Hula Hoop, Rubik's Cube ... enterprise architecture?

Scores of systems that should share data cannot do so, and the government has missed opportunities for improving processes.

People

Public satisfaction with federal Web up again

Federal Web sites continue to climb in the public’s estimation, according to the latest quarterly rankings.

People

Senate curbs e-gov in Commerce, Justice spending bill

The Senate spending bill limits the power of federal agencies to transfer money to fund e-government projects.

People

Mok: Government should adopt XBRL

All federal agencies should adopt Extensible Business Reporting Language for their financial data, the Labor Department's chief financial officer said.

Digital Government

Advanced technologies offer a way forward

Governmentwide adoption of an Extensible Markup Language schema and ontological reasoning could turn the federal enterprise architecture into an operational architecture.

People

Evans: Service centers may bear transition costs

OMB wants three major departments to migrate to a shared service provider for financial management during the next fiscal year.

People

Core.gov undergoing renovation

OMB is revamping Core.gov, its repository for governmentwide reusable components.

Modernization

OMB: No new money for IPv6

Federal agencies have all the money they need to make a mandatory transition to the next generation of IP, a top OMB official said.

People

CIO Council proposes reference model updating

The council recommends five ways to update the federal enterprise architecture reference models.

Digital Government

Disasters were not an e-gov priority

Feds, Congress had little support for emergency management e-gov

Digital Government

Small-biz report leaves gaping questions

Experts ask if small business is really getting its piece of the pie

People

GAO: FBI enterprise architecture growing

The FBI falls short of a fully operational enterprise architecture but has improved since the days when it had no architecture at all, GAO said.