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EA lacking at DOT, say auditors

Although the Transportation Department has spent $48 million developing its enterprise architecture and plans on spending another $25 million in the near future, it lacks an effective EA program.

LightSquared participated in testing, says DOT official

Aviation officials came to Congress Feb. 8 to praise the Global Positioning System and bury LightSquared. "We worked with LightSquared. They were part of developing the testing protocols, they were

FTA lacks rail safety data, says OIG

The Federal Transit Administration lacks the data necessary to nationally oversee transit safety, says the Transportation Department office of inspector general in a Jan. 31 report. Transportation

HHS, DOT start open government plan refresh

Two federal agencies seek feedback to inform updates to their open government plans as the 2 year deadline for refreshing them comes due this spring. The Open Government Directive requires executive

LightSquared GPS interference cannot be solved, say federal agencies

Proposed commercial broadband wireless service provider LightSquared received a possibly deadly blow with the Jan. 13 release (.pdf) of a letter from nine federal agencies concluding that the

DOT continues to lag on resolving cybersecurity problems

The Transportation Department continues to have difficulty remediating cybersecurity vulnerabilities, the departmental inspector general says in an annual assessment on Federal Information Security...

Congress poised to pass fiscal 2012 'minibus'

House and Senate appropriators unveiled Nov. 14 a "minibus" bill that would fund the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, as well as NASA,

Federal CIO pay report

As private-sector executives eagerly await bonus season, the debate has once again arisen around contractor and public-sector pay. But as organizations--such as the Project on Government Oversight,

DOJ grades agency FOIA performance

An assessment by the Justice Department's office of information policy on cabinet department self-reported enactment of Obama administration Freedom of Information Act policy during the last...

IG finds lack of procurement leadership in Transportation Dept.

Oversight and strategic leadership in procurement have been lacking in the Transportation Department, says a departmental inspector general report. The report, dated May 25, localizes the problem to