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FDA touts online performance metric dashboards

The Food and Drug Administration received 5,066 Freedom of Information Requests in the first half of this calendar year, according to a recently unveiled online dashboard that's part of the Health... Read more...

Q&A: Randy Hite on the new GAO EA maturity framework

When the Government Accountability Office released August 5 a major revision to its framework for assessing the maturity of agency enterprise architectures, it was the first change to the framework... Read more...

NIEM expansion could require contractor support

As the National Information Exchange Model becomes more embedded within agencies as the technical basis for cross-organizational information exchange, its program management office is contemplating... Read more...

DARPA in pursuit of insider threats

Just as constantly looking over your shoulder might betray nefarious intent, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says certain system and network activities could indicate the presence of an... Read more...

Auditors: CBP unable to detect excessive custom refunds in fiscal 2009

Customs and Border Patrol was unable to prevent itself from issuing excessive custom duty refunds during the last fiscal year due to inherent limitations and lack of controls in certain information... Read more...

OMB plummets in agency satisfaction rankings

The Office of Management and Budget is seen by its employees as among the worst small agencies to work for in the federal government, according to a study of federal personnel perceptions. The study,... Read more...

Electronic signatures now preferred in the Navy

Electronic signatures are now the preferred way of conducting business at the Department of the Navy. DON Chief Information Officer Rob Carey signed on August 27 a memo--meant for electronic... Read more...

Simplified acquisition and other thresholds going up

Contracting officers, rejoice! The quincennial adjustment of various federal acquisition thresholds arrived August 30 in a final ruling that becomes applicable starting Oct 1. Among the changes is a... Read more...