The Defense Security Service is short $25 million for the remainder of the fiscal year even as OMB's Clay Johnson says clearance processing time has been cut in most cases.

With 10 months until the deadline to put all federal contract and grant spending in an online database, the Office of Management and Budget is asking for public comment on how best to implement the law.

The request calls for $1.85 billion for information technology.

Longtime federal executive moves from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to the FDA, where information technology will be among his responsibilities as a deputy commissioner.

The former American Enterprise Institute resident scholar will replace Scott Gottlieb, who will leave the FDA next month.

Health IT is a key ingredient of the state's program to control costs and modernize the delivery of care.

The commission will pay as much as 85 percent of the cost of statewide or regional broadband networks for health care delivery.

On the same day the former chief of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy was convicted, the White House's nominee to lead the office Safavian once ran said he will make government contracting more transparent and accountable.

In a list of 10 recommendations, the Acquisition Advisory Panel says OMB should ditch a unilateral quota and set agency-specific targets.