Digital Government

FCC OKs $417 million in grants for rural health networks

Sixty-nine projects to link rural health centers with one another and with urban areas will receive sums between $194,000 and $24.7 million.

Modernization

Buzz of the Week:

The convenient truth

People

Circuit

The holiday buying season; explaining Coburn’s no e-gov vote; it's all relative

Modernization

FlipSide

FCW Time Machine 2006: Blessed/cursed BlackBerry

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People

Wilkinson to leave GSA

The General Services Administration’s chief acquisition officer Molly Wilkinson has resigned after a short seven-and-a-half month stint.

Acquisition

The Lectern: Buying from commercial vendors 101

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Digital Government

Letter: Opening air space won't help travel

Additional air space will only mean more holding patterns while planes wait to land.

People

Nonfiction cyberwar

Military leaders come to grips with cyberwar beyond the pages of science fiction novels

People

Measuring green

Agencies turn to service-level agreements and other forms of performance contracting to achieve new energy efficiency and electronics stewardship goals

People

The environmental executive

Edwin Pinero's job is to make the federal government a model environmental citizen

Modernization

Editorial: Fixing the schedules

Like them or not, GSA's schedule contracts have been remarkably successful, accounting for about $36 billion in annual sales.

People

OMB: Agencies improve finance reporting

Nineteen of 24 agencies, one more than last year, received clean opinions on their fiscal 2007 reports.

People

Senate confirms new Army CIO

Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson replaces Steven Boutelle.

Ideas

HHS Turns Up Heat on ePrescribe

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Digital Government

And the 2007 Rising Stars are...

The winners were selected because of the work they did and the potential they show for the future.

Digital Government

Leavitt calls on Medicare, Medicaid to require e-prescribing

The HHS secretary uses his personal blog to urge large health care providers, including the government, to make electronic prescription services mandatory.

People

E-Gov Act reauthorization begins

Although the law expires next month, lawmakers have only recently begun working on its reauthorization

People

Navy offers high-level EA view

Officials say a federated approach can help officials make better IT decisions

People

White House homeland security adviser to leave

Frances Townsend has resigned after three and a half years in the job.