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Government Contracting Landscape Shifts As Task Orders Rise

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Government contractors need to prepare not only for a more austere future for government spending, but also adapt to a shifting landscape that is favoring task orders over traditional acquisition contracts, a leading government forecasting group said today.

Among the forces reshaping that landscape are agency efforts to accelerate the delivery of technology and other projects. One way they’re doing that is by breaking projects into smaller, more modular chunks. That has resulted in a growing use of task orders, said Kevin Plexico, senior vice president for research and analysis services at Deltek, speaking at Deltek’s FedFocus 2012 forum today. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 3, 2011 at 5:12 PM

GSA Initiates New Telework Policy; Lessons In Hoteling and Hot Desking

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The General Services Administration instituted a new governmentwide telework policy Monday that essentially flips the managerial presumption that employees cannot telecommute to one that presumes they can. It also sets a new benchmark in detailing the government’s mobility and telework guidelines for federal employees and supervisors.

“Work is what we do, not where we are,” the GSA policy states, and a phrase that GSA Administrator Martha Johnson often repeats in her public remarks. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 1, 2011 at 1:51 PM

OMB Method For Tracking Federal IT Costs Leads To Overspending Says GAO Audit

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Federal government efforts to identify and track federal information technology investments remain insufficient to curtail duplicative spending, according to the latest in a series of a reports released by the Government Accountability Office critical of government IT spending practices.

The GAO report, released Oct. 27, took primary aim at the the White House Office of Management and Budget, and the way it categorizes and tracks IT investments, citing a number of principle shortcomings, although those familiar with OMB’s operating levers note the problem goes beyond OMB. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 31, 2011 at 5:05 PM

Fed CIO’s Decision To Make First Public Speech In Palo Alto Not A Coincidence

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Steven VanRoekel’s first public appearance last week since taking over the role as federal CIO in August from Vivek Kundra was perhaps as notable for where he spoke as for what he had to say.

Unlike Kundra, who made his first public remarks inside the Washington Beltway as federal CIO, at the 2009 FOSE Expo (transcript available here), VanRoekel headed to the West Coast, speaking at an event co-hosted by TechAmerica, TechNet and PARC Oct. 25 at the Churchill Club in Palo Alto, Calif. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 31, 2011 at 11:51 AM

Hacktivists Post Former Treasurer Secretary’s Personal Data

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The Internet’s increasing role in empowering ad hoc protest groups took a new turn this week when hackers supportive of the Occupy Wall Street protests released personal information about former U.S. Treasury Secretary and ex-Goldman Sachs co-chairman, Robert Rubin.

Hackers who have aligned themselves with the online activist group known as Anonymous have been targeting chief executives officers at leading banks, including JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup, where Rubin had also serviced as a director and senior counselor, looking for personal information to post to the Internet. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 26, 2011 at 5:07 PM

DHS To Introduce Bundled ‘Workplace As a Service’

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The Homeland Defense Department will begin testing a new way of provisioning desktop and mobile computing services to employees, using DHS’s private cloud computing services, DHS Chief Information Officer Richard Spires said Tuesday.

The new service will enable employees to order “a virtual desktop capability, with a series of mobile devices–tablets, smartphones–bundled where you pay a fee per user for month,” he said. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 26, 2011 at 9:36 AM

Future Of Mobile Technology Takes Shape – As A Cube

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In the next four years, wireless carriers will need to find a way to transmit more than 30 times the volume of data than their networks carry today.

How they’ll succeed in meeting that demand, given the world’s rapidly increasing dependence on wireless communications and the limits of available spectrum, represents one of the great challenges for engineers. It’s also a central question for business and government executives planning for a more enabled mobile workforce. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 25, 2011 at 11:34 AM

Government Agencies Need To Move To The Front Of Mobility Wave

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Federal agencies trying to plot their path toward a mobile future need to be willing to say “yes” to pilot programs even if the outcomes are hard to predict, said Veterans Affairs CIO Roger Baker today in a panel discussion at the Executive Leadership Conference.

But even if agencies move forward to embrace mobile technologies, they must also resolve,” How do we work around interagency silos to share these services,” said Gwynne Kostin, director mobile, GSA Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 24, 2011 at 11:42 AM

New Federal Jobs Website Still Straining To Handle User Volume

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Updated: Efforts by the Office of Personnel Management to rectify technical problems with its new USAJobs site may have made matters worse, according to a Federal Computer Week report, as agency officials continue to work around the clock to remedy the customer complaints.

Users trying to apply for jobs on the USAJobs search website have continued to encounter extended timeouts, lost data and incorrect results since the site was relaunched last week. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 20, 2011 at 5:02 PM

Information Security Leaders Saluted For Federal Work

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Behind the IT systems that support civilian and defense agencies are a corps of administrators and information security specialists charged with operating those systems securely.

And behind them are organizations that help train and certify them and, as one organization did last night, recognize their efforts. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 19, 2011 at 9:46 AM
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