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Management
Kundra on deck to be OMB e-gov and IT administrator
Vivek Kundra, the presumptive nominee for OMB's e-gov and IT administrator, brought technological innovations to D.C. government as the city's CIO.
Infrastructure
Agencies make headway in reducing Internet gateways
Agencies have reduced the number of their external connections to the Internet from 4,300 to 2,758, and shown progress toward meeting OMB's ultimate goal of fewer than 100 connections.
Digital Government
DOT sees future with vehicle integration, hydrogen fuel
Intelligent transportation systems will be a large part of future innovations in highway travel. The Department of Transportation will release its Transportation Vision 2030 soon.
Digital Government
VistA outage effects felt for months
VA will be working for months to restore the integrity of records that were disrupted during an outage of its e-health record system Aug. 31 at 17 medical facilities, VA health care officials said.
Cybersecurity
Evans: Standard desktop configuration key to network security
OMB officials believe a standard computer desktop configuration will dramatically improve security governmentwide.
Infrastructure
VA taskforce Web page asks for service members' input
The Department of Veterans Affairs has created a Web page through which service members may comment directly about their experience in accessing federal services.
Cybersecurity
CMS awards $292M Medicare data center contracts
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded EDS Corp. a $92 million task order as part of its migration to an Enterprise Data Center.
Digital Government
Agencies' share pain of CR's funding limits
Congress passes resolution to fund 2007 at 2006 levels.
Digital Government
Civilian agencies focus on info sharing
OMB has high hopes for Congress to accept e-government.
Digital Government
The big issue for FM LOB
Small agencies see the benefits in shared services, but large agencies don't want to give up their control.
Infrastructure
Commerce seeks online hiring system
The Commerce Department seeks a human-resources automated hiring system that is integrated with the governmentwide USAJOBS Web site.
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Cybersecurity
VA missing another hard drive
The hard drive that the Veterans Affairs Department reported missing may have data on 1.8 million people, including 1.3 million non-VA physicians, living and deceased.
Digital Government
EPA awards CGI financial-management contract
The EPA has become the first large agency to migrate to a shared provider under the FMLOB through a contract with CGI Federal Inc.
Cybersecurity
HHS should lead on health IT privacy, security
The Health and Human Services Department needs to exert stronger leadership in determining how to apply privacy to health IT initiatives, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Infrastructure
IRS 2008 budget steps up tax services transformation
The IRS advances its goal to improve taxpayer service and tax compliance through IT in the fiscal 2008 Treasury Department budget.
Cybersecurity
VA missing hard drive
The Veterans Affairs Department is missing one of its portable hard drives used by an employee at a VA facility in Birmingham, Ala., and it may have been stolen.
Digital Government
Civilian agencies seek better data use in 2008 budget
Civilian agencies plan to more efficiently collect and share data with increases in the IT components of their fiscal 2008 budgets.
Digital Government
IHS practices for pandemic
Mass flu vaccination tests Indian Health Service's common environment for communication, information sharing.
Digital Government