People

GPO staff head to class

E-learning courses teach how to resolve conflicts and build communities.

Digital Government

Taking no chances at Interior

Officials set up a cybersecurity command center.

People

IG takes issue with Energy architecture

The department has not fully defined current and future IT requirements, the inspector general says.

Digital Government

Welles: When does privacy rule?

Energy Department officials may be testing an edge of the privacy issue in a proposed regulation governing access to information on any department computer.

Acquisition

Editorial: Rules of the road

Office of Federal Procurement Policy Administrator David Safavian has taken the right steps by assessing the GWAC landscape.

Digital Government

Stretching the field

Touchstone acquisition strengthens SRA's consulting business unit.

Digital Government

Alberta health images to go all digital

Alberta's provincial health agency plans to develop and deploy a $177 million medical digital imagery system by 2008.

People

GovBenefits to let agencies brand own benefits pages

GovBenefits.gov today celebrated its third year by adding more than 600 programs from federal, state and local governments.

People

Feds hunt for XML core

The National Information Exchange Model seeks to identify a core set of schemas and ensure their standardization.

People

Share-in-savings regulations will receive one more review

Office of Federal Procurement Policy officials admit they dropped the ball in getting share-in-savings off the ground and have fumbled again in their attempts to fix it.

People

DHS to business: Help us

The department wants to enhance security without unduly burdening companies or limiting trade, the DHS secretary says.

People

DHS mulls choice of passport technology, as lawmakers clash

Senior federal IT policy officials are facing a technology choice that also has set off fireworks in Congress: Should Uncle Sam accept digital photographs, as well as smart chips, as biometric identifiers in foreign passports?

People

As GAO watches, IRS works to patch security holes

The IRS, caught in a thicket of IT security problems, is hoping to be mostly out the woods by fall.

People

GovBenefits to let agencies design their own front pages

Instead of giving agencies one benefits portal, the Labor Department’s e-government project will let agencies create their own benefits Web pages and use a search filter to integrate with GovBenefits’ back-end database and rules engine.

People

Internaut: Defense shows how an enterprise architecture can really work

With all the talk lately about government enterprise architectures, it’s interesting to see what the Defense Logistics Agency is doing to get all of its procurement, supply chain and logistics managers on the same page.

Digital Government

Lockheed Martin IT grows faster

First quarter revenue for the Lockheed Martin's Systems & IT Group increased 4 percent, outpacing the overall company.

Acquisition

SAIC settles claims case

Science Applications International Corp. denies any wrongdoing, but agreed to pay $2.5 million after federal prosecutors looked into allegations of contractor fraud.

People

DOD IG resists congressional pressure on acquisition audits

The Defense Department’s inspector general’s office will not say when it plans to resume a pair of audits evaluating the department’s acquisition processes and commercial criteria justifications that were recently suspended due to a lack of resources.

People

William “Bill” McDermott | Competitors can also be partners

Last December, when Oracle Corp. bought PeopleSoft, SAP AG of Walldorf, Germany, wasted no time in setting out to court PeopleSoft customers.

People

What’s new in Exchange 2003

Microsoft will cease support of its Exchange 5.5 messaging server software this year, making it all but inevitable that agencies will need to upgrade to Microsoft’s latest—Exchange 2003.