Digital Government

Workforce planning without the guesswork

Learning management systems help states and counties analyze their workforce data.

Modernization

Tech briefs

Dell's semi-rugged notebook PC; XML standards; industry news

Modernization

Enter here

No longer the ‘next big thing’ of the late 1990s, Web portals are back.

Digital Government

Buzz of the Week

A costly $20,000 contract.

Modernization

Section 508: Reconstruction in progress

Web technologies outpace accessibility law and require a major rewrite of 508 standards.

Modernization

Agencies feel botnets’ light footprint

SPECIAL REPORT: The Next Steps for Security | DHS pilot helps agencies monitor network intrusions.

People

Rep. Towns: Restructuring could fix some agencies' operations

Towns, chairman of a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s subcommittee, said the government is struggling with disjointed programs and stovepipe systems.

Digital Government

Web extra: Readiness, set, go

Police, first responders log on for e-learning.

People

DOD learns transport logistics the Toyota way

Transcom imports Japanese automaker’s practices to manage its supply chain.

Acquisition

The Hill calls top procurement officials to testify

A Senate Armed Services Committee subcommittee has asked top federal procurement officials and experts to testify.

Modernization

Secure Measures

SPECIAL REPORT: The Next Steps for Security | Agencies work to catch up to OMB mandates for protecting mobile data.

Digital Government

FlipSide

FCW history book: CD-ROMs circa 1987

People

DOD says no to massive IT acquisitions

Large systems integrators will have a role, but it won’t be to run proprietary systems.

Modernization

Tool lets agencies show OMB the IT money

Electronic Capital Planning and Investment Control application integrates architecture, performance and security data.

People

Circuit

Saluting a most honorable man; More GSA changes; Other movers.

Modernization

Web extra: When thin isn’t in

Some IT shops still have trouble justifying a thin-client investment.

People

Defense Travel System under review

Congress has reservations about system’s cost, efficiency.

Modernization

Telework culture lagging: survey

The federal government has a way to go if it is going to establish a culture favorable to telework, according to a new survey of federal managers.<@SM>

People

Wyatt Kash | Editor's Desk: E-gov’s true measure

OMB' report to Congress on the 25 e-government projects suggests both the progress the initiatives have made and the challenges they still face.