Digital Government
Fairfax tax cheat reports go online
Virginia's Fairfax County now has a site for people to report cars suspected of evading the vehicle tax.
Digital Government
House to consider E911 office
Before year's end, congressmen will likely decide whether to establish an office in the Commerce Department to speed implementation of emergency response systems.
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Feds give $44 million for rural broadband
The Agriculture Department announced grants for 118 projects.
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Arkansas launches insurance portal
The state is building a system to let state and public school employees go online to manage their health care and life insurance plans
Digital Government
Facing the bottom line
The economics of security testing are still a bit dicey. With the proliferation of worms exploiting security flaws in commercial software, agency officials can make a good case for asking vendors to submit core products for testing.
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The psychology of business development
For Gene Kakalec, vice president of business development and marketing at Northrop Grumman Information Technology, business development is a matter of getting inside the heads of government customers.
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Technology Briefs
Symantec unveils security appliances; Foundstone thwarts cyberthreats
Digital Government
Permit site tops usage goal
In the year since a regional e-government alliance in Washington's King County launched a permit portal, online usage has exceeded the group's expectations.
Digital Government
Storage networking, IP style
The recently ratified iSCSI protocol provides another way to build and link storage-area networks.
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Officials want better use of GPRA
Congress should strengthen oversight to ensure the use of program performance information in managing and funding programs, officials said this month.
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GSA to reveal more tech fund abuses
After a preliminary report in March found an office misusing IT funds, GSA says workers in two other regions did something similar.
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Long-haul storage
Extension products link isolated Fibre Channel storage-area networks
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News Briefs
Feds eye Qwest debarment; Itronix bought out of trouble; Schlumberger rebrands smart card division
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EPA info network taking shape
Agency will exchange information with 20 states by year's end
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New solutions, new problems
The techniques used to solve the problem of storage-area network isolation may create other issues for information technology managers.
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Business development as evolutionary science
When Tom Anderson was named vice president of the newly created Raytheon Information Solutions a year ago, he set about building a business development organization that could evolve with market and customer trends.
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