People
Hurricane Katrina gets her own DHS IG
The Homeland Security Department's inspector general is creating an office that will specifically focus on Hurricane Katrina issues.
People
Public satisfaction with federal Web up again
Federal Web sites continue to climb in the public’s estimation, according to the latest quarterly rankings.
Acquisition
Office Depot, feds settle false claims case
Office Depot sold products to government agencies in violation of the Trade Agreements Act, according to the Justice Department.
People
Medicaid contractor builds electronic drug record on the fly
The Health and Human Services Department began providing electronic drug data on Katrina evacuees to doctors working in shelters last week.
Modernization
Tools to solve the puzzle
Repositories, however, won't yield those anticipated benefits unless they are customized for an agency's specific needs.
People
298 pages of problems at USPTO
A panel of experts has made dozens of recommendations for fixing management and workforce problems at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, an agency increasingly criticized for the quality of its work and a mounting backlog of patent applications.
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Commission recommends voting safeguards
One panel member dissents from the official report, saying ID provision would exclude too many eligible voters.
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Federal employees will have their say
Federal agencies that aren’t conducting employee surveys every year will soon be required to do so.
People
Mok: Government should adopt XBRL
All federal agencies should adopt Extensible Business Reporting Language for their financial data, the Labor Department's chief financial officer said.
Digital Government
Lockheed lands DLA deal
Integrator will support DOD civilian personnel system through 2010 under $112.6 million contract
Modernization
Congress wants to give VA CIO’s IT budget authority
Congress is proposing legislation that could make the Veterans Affairs Department a model for giving department CIOs across government more authority over IT resources.
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Trouble ahead for Census and e-gov funding
Senate plans to reduce requested Census Bureau 2006 funding would suspend the American Community Survey and increase the cost of the next decennial census, the White House said in a Statement of Administration Policy.
Digital Government
Advanced technologies offer a way forward
Governmentwide adoption of an Extensible Markup Language schema and ontological reasoning could turn the federal enterprise architecture into an operational architecture.
People
AT&T gets Air Force intell deal
Company will provide data processing capabilities at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center
People
Gingrich: 'Paper kills,' electronic medical records save lives
Katrina has shown beyond doubt the necessity of moving to electronic records, policy figures argue.
Digital Government
Marchibroda: E-health work keeps pace
The recent Health IT Summit showed that progress is happening on many fronts.
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GSA issues final reorg order
GSA has formally signed the order to create the Federal Acquisition Service, which will replace the Federal Supply Service and Federal Technology Service.
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E-gov foundation gives agencies opportunity to do more, Evans says
The way Office of Management and Budget administrator for E-government and IT Karen Evans sees it, agencies now have the foundation to make technology work for them in ways that couldn’t have been imagined four years ago.
People