The Energy Department won’t be insourcing many IT jobs.

“We need our partnerships to get things done,” Energy’s chief information officer Thomas Pyke said, according to the newspaper Washington Technology. “We cannot do it without our partnerships.”

Pyke said the department relies on contractors for their expertise in cybersecurity and other fields.

GSA has established an online clearinghouse for thousands of pending and recently completed federal regulatory actions throughout the government.

The site, www.reginfo.gov, links to the semiannual regulatory plans published by 60 agencies. The plans outline their timetables for enacting specific regulations.

“Putting this plan online is one of the many ways we’re working toward a more transparent, participatory, and collaborative government by making information easily accessible and engaging the public in dialogue on important issues,” said Michael Robertson, associate administrator of governmentwide policy.

Effective Jan. 1, GSA Schedule 26 I, Tires, will be merged into Schedule 23 V, Vehicle Multiple Award Schedule. The same special item numbers from Schedule 26 I will be added to Schedule 23 V. For more information visit GSA’s Vehicle and Products website at www.gsa.gov/Portal/gsa/ep/contentView.do?contentType=GSA_OVERVIEW&contentId=9544&noc=T.

Software maker Deltek Inc. has acquired mySBX, an online government contracting network. The price was not disclosed.

MySBX, of Reston, VA, provides its members with information about federal contracts and partnership opportunities.

“The acquisition of mySBX significantly expands our reach and market leadership in the government contracting world,” said Deltek CEO Kevin Parker.

The smallest of small business owners—that “guy in his garage” or the “woman at her dining-room table”—are often people who have lost their jobs. A study for SBA’s Office of Advocacy finds that one-person business startups increase as a state’s unemployment rate increases.

Between 2002 and 2004, the study found one-person startups grew almost three times as fast as new businesses with employees. They were also about three times as likely to go out of business.

The paper, “The Nonemployer Startup Puzzle” by Zoltan Acs, Brian Headd, and Hezekiah Agwara, is available at www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs354tot.pdf.

SBA announced the appointment of Calvin Goings as the regional administrator in Region X. The Region X office, headquartered in Seattle, oversees SBA’s district offices in Seattle and Spokane, WA; Portland, OR; Boise, ID; and Anchorage, AK.

Goings currently is the senior adviser to the president at the Washington Credit Union League. He previously served in elected office for nearly two decades as a Pierce County fire commissioner, Pierce County Council member and a Washington state senator.