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Read More »OPM Eyes Industry Partner for IT Modernization Program
The General Services Administration selected the Office of Personnel Management as the third agency that will undergo information technology modernization as part of the former's Centers of Excellence program, Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday.
Read More »HP Federal’s Tommy Gardner: Culture Change, Budget, Modern Tech Key to Public Sector Cybersecurity
Tommy Gardner, chief technology officer of HP’s federal business, has said government agencies should transform their organizational cultures, adjust budgeting approaches and implement new technolgy as part of initiatives to avoid another data breach similar to the Office of Personnel Management hack that occurred nearly four years ago.
Read More »OPM Seeks Natural Language Processing Methods for Policy Analysis
The Office of Personnel Management has asked industry to suggest natural language techniques for federal employees to obtain insight into statutory and regulatory text as part of policy analysis efforts.
Read More »ICF’s Jeff Neal: Federal Agencies Should Update HR Practices to Create ’21st Century Workforce’
Jeff Neal, a senior vice president of ICF, has said the federal government needs to reform its human resources processes in order to address the “21st century workforce” objective stated in the President’s Management Agenda.
Read More »ICF’s Jeff Neal: Next OPM Chief Should Place ‘Greater Focus’ on Federal Workforce Issues
Jeffrey Neal, a senior vice president at ICF, told Government Matters in an interview posted Sunday that he believes the next Office of Personnel Management director should increase the agency's focus on efforts to address challenges federal employees face.
Read More »OPM Seeks Organizational Change Mgmt Support for Financial System Modernization Project
The Office of Personnel Management is looking for a contractor to help the agency create and implement a change management strategy for Trust Funds Federal Financial System modernization efforts.
Read More »DoD Seeks Info on Potential Support Sources for Security Clearance Processing System
The Department of Defense has issued a request for information on potential contractors that could apply agile development methods to manage a new information technology system built to facilitate the background investigation process, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. The RFI comes as the Defense Security Service prepares to assume responsibilities over …
Read More »Report: OPM Plans Rebid for ID Theft Protection Contract
The Office of Personnel Management will launch a competitive solicitation for the recompete of a contract to provide identity theft protection and credit monitoring services to former and current federal employees, Nextgov reported Tuesday. ID Experts provides the services to more than 20M people affected by government data breaches in …
Read More »Report: Federal Agencies Issue Solicitations for Blockchain-Related Contracts
Blockchain is likely to gain traction in the federal government in the next fiscal year as agencies seek offers for contracts related to the distributed ledger technology, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The Office of Personnel Management, Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Postal Service are among the agencies that …
Read More »Former Technica Exec Basil Parker Appointed OPM Senior Adviser
Basil Parker, former director of Defense Department programs at Technica, has joined the Office of Personnel Management as senior adviser for governmentwide information technology and cyber workforce development. He will serve in the Senior Executive Service-level advisory role for a term of up to three years and advise the OPM director …
Read More »Calibre to Support Joint Tech Devt Programs at National Guard Bureau
Calibre Systems has received a task order to support joint capabilities development programs of the National Guard Bureau‘s J8 Force Structure, Resources and Assessment division. The company said Tuesday the order was issued under the Human Capital and Training Solutions indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract managed by the Office of Personnel and Management and General Services Administration. …
Read More »OPM Seeks HR Program Mgmt, Technical Support
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management has begun its search for potential sources of human resource program management and technical support services from the small business community. OPM said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Sunday it seeks a contractor to support strategy and governance; modernization and transformation; enterprise architecture; performance assessment and improvement; …
Read More »Cyxtera’s Greg Touhill: Data ‘Overclassification’ Can Delay Govt Cyber Incident Response
Greg Touhill, president of Cyxtera Technologies‘ federal group, has said that overclassifying information can slow down the federal government’s response to cybersecurity challenges, MeriTalk reported Wednesday. He told audience at the AFCEA Homeland Security Conference held Tuesday he believes data overclassification prevents the government from formulating strategies to mitigate security threats. The …
Read More »GSA Unveils First Task Order for CDM Program Phase 3
The General Services Administration has begun to solicit proposals for the first task order under the third phase of a governmentwide effort to protect civilian government agency websites from cyber attacks, FCW reported Friday. The initial task order under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program Phase 3 will cover “Group …
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