Topic: Lurita Doan
To complement the Federal Information Security Management Act, some agencies are adopting a strategy that depends, in part, on a package of 20 security practices, named the Consensus Audit Guidelines.. Michael Robertson is taking his skills - and his political connections - to GSA ...
It's no secret that the General Services Administration has fallen on hard times in recent years. Martha Johnson, his nominee to become GSA administrator, served as chief of staff under Administrator David Barram in the 1990s.. But he and Johnson tried ...
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) raised some good questions in July about the purpose of the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Advisory Panel. Waxman, as far as we know, was correct in saying Doan was the only person interested in convening the panel. In ...
Christopher J. Dorobek, Federal Computer Week's editor-in-chief for the last two and a half years, has found a new way to cause a stir in the federal information technology community: Dorobek has been a highly visible - and vocal - presence in the ...
Thirty former and current government employees and contractors who took action against corruption, incompetence and ethical abuses during the current presidential administration are praised in a new report from the nonprofit group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Brian Miller, the ...
We all understand that former General Services Administration Administrator Lurita Doan was a controversial figure, but she was taking the agency in the right direction to bring efficiency and innovation to government. The ideas were hardly all Doan's, but much of ...
Claims that the General Services Administration's inspector general pressured GSA contracting officers during contract negotiations with Sun Microsystems are baseless, according to a report by the U.S. Postal Service's IG. GSA IG Brian Miller asked the USPS IG to ...
Federal Computer Week asked a number of thought leaders about their ideas on GSA given the departure of Lurita Doan. With plastic arrows sticking out of her head, shoulders, arms and legs, Lurita Doan addressed a gathering of General Services Administration schedules ...
As administrator of the General Services Administration, Lurita Doan left behind a legacy that could cause ripples in the government pond for years. Others might debate how well Doan performed her job at GSA. With Doan gone, should we chalk up another ...
Lurita Doan, former administrator of the General Services Administration, set out to restore GSA's reputation for customer service. Doan steered GSA away from its primary mission of buying for its customer agencies, said Bob Woods, former commissioner of GSA's Federal ...