Modernization

Data classification: A better way to prioritize stored files

A primer on technology that lets managers sort data by its value

Digital Government

Editor's Note: When all the switches are thrown at once

The response to Katrina provided a unique chance to identify the thinnest strands in the health care delivery web.

People

Kelman: Grand challenge for government

DARPA offered $2 million for first driverless vehicle to cross the finish line.

Digital Government

Rx for sharing health records

Architects of the NHIN must figure out how to build a network that lets rival hospitals freely share patient data while competing with one another for market share.

Digital Government

Diaspora dispatches

Stories of how individual health care workers, hospital IT staff and policy planners responded to Katrina reveal the glaring weaknesses -- and the buried potential -- of the nation's health IT infrastructure.

Digital Government

Best practices under pressure

As Hurricane Katrina evacuees poured into Tarrant County, Texas, health officials tried to keep to their best practices, only on a much larger scale.

People

Rescue heroes

These federal program managers know how to get things done.

Modernization

Ciena scores Fermi win

The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has selected a Ciena platform to enable it to connect to a research facility at Northwestern University.

Digital Government

Mending the safety net

CIOs say public hospital tech gap threatens national health network

People

OMB focuses on project execution

A new survey shows that federal agencies and their contractors are not hurrying to comply with directives to use the earned value management methodology.

Acquisition

Four teams to build health nets

Limited budget forces HHS to scale back network awards

Modernization

French firm enters U.S. search market

Undaunted by Google's clout, Exalead eyes government search customers.

People

NOAA turns to defense contractors

Three integrators will study risk reduction and system designs for the agency's next generation of weather satellites.

Digital Government

Carolinas HealthCare unplugged

The Carolinas Medical Center is introducing wireless technologies across all of its major campuses in North Carolina and South Carolina.

Digital Government

Garrett: Revolutionizing health care

Massachusetts plans to convert to e-health records in the next five years.

People

Rescue hero: Harold Bell

When Bell came to the FAA's Satellite Navigation Program five years ago, Capitol Hill leaders were about to cancel the project that had lured him to the agency.

People

Intercepts

Big DOD bot attack? November rain. DOD management czar? AKO tech refresh rumors. GIs to soldier on without Howard Stern.

People

Army seeks companies with global reach

Service tries new contracting approach to advance IT modernization.