The report found problems across all 24 major executive-branch agencies in implementing the requirements of the Federal Information Security Management Act. The problems were identified as managerial rather than technical.
Weiterlesen: USA: GAO recommends improvements to FISMA reporting guidance
The memo will list factors for which agencies have to report progress related to a specific IT project or their IT portfolio on OMB’s management watch list. The information OMB requests will enable it to more closely monitor agencies’ corrective activities. The guidance will be targeted at those projects that require quarterly reporting as part of the President’s Management Agenda scorecard.
Weiterlesen: USA: OMB to expand guidance for watch list projects
Under the bill, H.R. 3058, nearly $200 million would go toward acquisition of information technology systems for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). That would be a decrease of about $4.4 million from fiscal 2005 and the same as the budget request from President Bush.
Weiterlesen: USA: Spending bill addresses modernization, e-government
Governments have sought to migrate public services to the Web to help reduce the cost of operations by cutting down on labor and overhead, while at the same time increasing the collection of revenue, such as allowing citizens to pay parking tickets and taxes online. E-government can also help improve services to citizens and foster democracy.