People
DHS vows to fix information network
Feds are collaborating with state and local first responders to improve data sharing.
Cybersecurity
FAA to perform IT security for all of Transportation
The effort is part of a move to develop shared services to increase savings.
Cybersecurity
OMB: Scrub unnecessary SSNs from systems
Agencies must develop and put in place within four months a risk-based breach notification policy, according to an Office of Management and Budget memo.
Cybersecurity
Another bailout for DSS?
OMB promises process improvements designed to reduce the backlog of pending security clearance.
People
Agencies have new choices in financial, performance reporting
OMB is launching a pilot program to allow agencies to select an alternative format to the Performance and Accountability Report.
People
E-filing trails 80 percent goal
Panel readies report on ways to increase electronic tax filing.
Modernization
OMB publishes draft payment standard under line of business
It spans requisition, obligation, receiving, acceptance, invoice and payment for commercial contracts and small acquisitions disbursed by the Treasury Department.
Cybersecurity
OPM cuts clearance processing time; DOD partner begs for funds
The Defense Security Service is short $25 million for the remainder of the fiscal year even as OMB's Clay Johnson says clearance processing time has been cut in most cases.
Modernization
Education wants out of IT management business
As part of a forthcoming program, the agency wants to migrate its operations to an infrastructure owned and operated by a contractor.
Cybersecurity
VA buys 25K secure thumb drives
Employees must use the approved flash devices when taking sensitive data outside the agency network.
Cybersecurity
Poor data hygiene is common
USDA has begun scrubbing its databases of unnecessary Social Security numbers.
People
GAO: DHS finally acts to put HSIN on track
The department has started, belatedly, to apply management and coordination planning for the Web-based system for sharing data with state and local emergency responders, GAO reports.
Cybersecurity
Union files suit against TSA for data breach
AFGE said TSA failed to establish adequate safeguards to ensure the security and confidentiality of personnel records under the Privacy and the Aviation and Transportation Security acts.
Cybersecurity
TSA suffers data loss; lawmakers watch closely
The agency is investigating the possible loss or theft of an external hard drive that contained the payroll data of about 100,000 current and former employees.
People
Improper payments decline
OMB goes after agencies that have lagged in fulfilling their reporting requirements.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers act on data security bills
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) proposed legislation governing data security and breach notification, and a Senate committee approved two other data privacy bills.
Cybersecurity
USDA will take years to clean SSNs from systems
The department is responding to last month's discovery that it had inadvertently made public the Social Security and/or employer ID numbers of 38,700 grant and loan recipients.
Acquisition
Can metrics persuade holdouts?
OMB hopes performance measures will make the case for using shared-service providers.
Modernization
‘Green’ computers can replace toxic PCs
Transportation Security Administration has bought 450 green PCs in past 6 months.
People
IRS revives fraud detection system
The agency improved management of the Electronic Fraud Detection System after a vendor failed to deliver an online version last year.
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