Digital Government

Navy picks pair for shipboard network support

Contracts are for CANES program, designed to streamline and consolidated Navy information technology networks aboard its ships.

Digital Government

E-Retirement System on the Way?

Modernizing the federal government's retirement system, including moving from paper to electronic records, has long been a priority of the Office of Personnel Management. But as I <a href="http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1008/101608b2.htm?oref=rellink">reported</a> back in 2008, modernizing the system has not been without its challenges.

Digital Government

IT companies strut their stuff for feds

Kathy Ireland hosted a federal information technology fashion show on March 4.

Digital Government

Kaiser official defends security practices for veterans health data

Electronic data exchange safer than U.S. Mail, Kaiser official says.

Digital Government

More details emerge on Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative

The White House on March 2 released a summary of the 12 parts of a classified, expansive computer security initiative that was started in January 2008.

Digital Government

Geospatial apps help temper Mother Nature's fury

Government agencies find that linking sensors to other geospatial data could improve emergency management, environmental monitoring and homeland security.

Digital Government

No cyberwar? Say it ain't so, Howie!

Is there such a thing as a cyberwar? Some top officials say no, but others disagree. Who wins the war of words?

Digital Government

A mappable mashup

The National Weather Service's Ridge 2 system fuses ground-based radar and human-created weather alert data with geospatial data and makes it available to other agencies and the public.

Digital Government

Navy awards contracts to build prototypes for shipboard network

Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman will compete to produce what the service terms a revolutionary change in its information technology systems.

Digital Government

Regulations could bog down financial system modernization

Analyst says agencies could have difficulty finding technology that can be implemented quickly, given thicket of rules.

Digital Government

Screening of all U.S.-bound air cargo still years away

Acting head says TSA might be able to screen only 65 percent of cargo on international flights.

Digital Government

Eastern Airlines Lives!

Although Eastern Airlines went bankrupt in 1991, the Federal Aviation Administration for some reason decided to illustrate the cover of its 78-page 2010 "Portfolio of Goals" <a href=http://www.faa.gov/about/plans_reports/media/FY10%20Portfolio%20of%20Goals.pdf>report</a> with a photo of the venerable DC-9 operated by the long-defunct carrier.