Pilot IRS awards five scanning contracts
The IRS is using an innovative procurement program to test and deploy experimental solutions to digitize paper files as part of an agencywide effort to reduce the reliance on non-machine-readable documentation.
Globally connected data can safeguard the defense industrial and technology base
Data can play a critical role in planning and ultimately protecting the nation's valuable talent, resources and supplies.
TMF could help solve records request backlog for veterans, lawmakers say
A bipartisan group of lawmakers from the House Oversight and Reform Committee wants the National Archives and Records Administration to apply for funding from the Technology Modernization Fund to modernize its IT systems and clear its backlog of 500,000 records requests from veterans.
NARA seeks DOD's help in addressing records request backlog
Many records housed in a St. Louis facility are critical to veterans' benefits applications but can't be accessed remotely.
Automating the Plum Book and other Sunshine Week bills
Among the current crop of "Sunshine Week" bills are measures to continually update the Plum Book of federal appointments and to require the president to establish records management controls to store electronic messages in a way that they can later be searched and retrieved.
The long road to electronic records management
A deadline looms for switching to all-digital records, but the pandemic and other developments are presenting new challenges.
Thrift Board taps Accenture for consolidated records contract
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board plans to roll out new features to plan participants, including electronic signatures.
VA on the fence about homegrown patient portal
The My HealtheVet tool used by more than 3 million veterans to access care at the Department of Veterans Affairs could be retired in favor of a tool from vendor Cerner as part of the agency's $16 billion electronic health record software upgrade.
House bill aims to strengthen digital ID
Legislation proposed in the House would tap the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Homeland Security in new effort to help set national digital identifier capabilities.
NARA sharpens digital preservation plans
The National Archives released a framework for preserving government information that takes into account the proliferating variety of electronic formats – some now defunct – so that records can be saved in their original form.
DOD's $7.6B cloud email buy heads for redo
Less than a week before a final protest ruling was due, the Defense Information Systems Agency and the General Services Administration are taking another corrective action in their big business software buy for DOD.
Why right now is the most challenging time in history for government CIOs
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented CIOs at all levels of government with unprecedented challenges to respond to the critical needs of the country.
FDA wants to upgrade ethics filing platform
The Food and Drug Administration aims to improve the way documents for ethics rules compliance are filed and tracked.
DHS maps out data sharing with Census Bureau
Data on travel, immigration and enforcement from the Department of Homeland Security will be used by the Census Bureau as part of a plan to determine the number of immigrants and non-citizens residing in the U.S. in the 2020 population count.
'Technical irregularities' plagued contact chaining at NSA
ODNI's privacy czar said bad data from telecoms irrevocably tainted the contact-chaining process that was at the heart of the NSA's Call Detail Records program.
NSA says it can collect metadata for encrypted comms
During a hearing to discuss reauthorization for a number of controversial spying authorities, intelligence and law enforcement officials indicated they could sweep up logistical records related to encrypted communications.
FBI adds feature to threat notice system
The FBI has added a new notification capability to its incident reporting platform to spread tips on potential mass casualty suspects.
With hacks on the rise, is it time to revisit a national ID?
Our process for verifying people's identities is broken, leading some to revisit the idea of a national ID system. But politics, cybersecurity and other concerns loom large in the debate.
Navy cracks down on personal email, social media
The Navy CIO reminded department personnel in a recent memo about govermentwide and service policy covering use of personal communications accounts to conduct official business.
Tick tock: NARA's electronic records management deadline is approaching
While agencies have largely passed previous deadlines, this could be the most difficult mandate to date.
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