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The Defense Department says it has a departmentwide information technology plan that will allow flexible adoption of emerging technology while taking “appropriate actions” for projects that are “not producing.” The IT Enterprise Strategy and Roadmap (.pdf) provides some clarity into IT’s role in DoD’s Efficiency Initiative and reveals plans for saving between $3.2 billion and $5.2 billion over the [...]
The IRS has awarded SAS Institute a $6.25 million contract to use its data analytics technology to help recover unpaid taxes, detect tax fraud schemes, and reduce the number of fraudulent refunds the agency pays out. The agency is using SAS Analytics software for its new electronic Return Review Program (RRP) system, which the IRS [...]
The Air Force had already been planning to cut its information technology spending by more than a billion dollars over the next five years. Now it’s going to have to find a way to grapple with almost twice that amount. The service announced the first round of IT savings in January, when former Defense Secretary Robert Gates [...]
The FBI has employed new biometrics technology and is teaming with the Department of Defense to help enhance the crime-fighting and prevention work of its largest division, the Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS). CJIS is responsible for information repositories–such as the National Crime Information Center, the Interstate Identification Index, and the National Instant Criminal [...]
The Department of Defense is staring at a classic enterprise IT challenge, only on a massive scale. Facing billions of dollars in budget cuts, the DOD must decide where to invest its IT dollars in order to save money across its operations, and where to pinch IT spending. But with national security on the line, [...]
An estimated $1.7 billion modernization effort at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services suffers from unreliable schedules and cost estimates, says the Government Accountability Office. In a report dated Nov. 22, GAO auditors say USCIS awarded in November 2008 a solutions architect contract worth approximately $500 million over a 5-year period (to IBM) before fully developing [...]
The Veterans Affairs Department could save $150 million over the next five years by winnowing the number of desktop printers from 50,000 to 5,000, VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker said Wednesday. VA now has approximately 300,000 employees, which works out to about one printer for every six employees. Baker wants to steer thousands more employees to [...]
Congress will pay the FBI an additional $18.6 million to better investigate computer hacking cases, following a federal study that found a third of bureau agents probing breaches significant to national security lacked the necessary networking and counterintelligence skills. A spending package passed Nov. 17 to fund many federal agencies through September 2012 includes President [...]
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