Digital Government

Wiki means fast

Online collaborative sites open to everyone enable the sharing of ideas.

Digital Government

Federal Computer Week: Site Map

April 4, 2005 issue

Digital Government

Intercepts

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Modernization

Get ready for Firefox

The open-source browser is trim, fast and stable.

Digital Government

thePipeline

New products from MRO Software and SI International.

Modernization

PCs go double time

Dual-core processors will change PC market, perhaps not all for the better.

People

A rough ride for battlefield systems

Army report calls for updates to the service’s battle command systems.

People

NIH expands digital archive

Officials said they tried to balance public interest in free access to taxpayer-funded research with the commercial interests of publishers.

Modernization

Sprint makes smart move with handheld

The PPC-6601 handheld has the most capacity of any Sprint wireless device.

People

NASA picks EDS for $20 million eTravel contract

NASA has awarded a task order to EDS to implement and maintain an electronic travel system.

Modernization

Unisys contract future in doubt

Administration officials have singled out high-speed connectivity at airports as a major program in TSA's budget request for fiscal 2006.

People

Tech training gets muscle

OPM issues standards to measure results.

People

Survey: E-filing 'very important'

But the poll indicates that even more people want access to a toll-free number for IRS questions.

People

USPS adds training partner

The University of Phoenix will offer one three-credit course free to Postal employees who pay for three courses.

Acquisition

Veterans get GWAC

Service-disabled vets can now bid under the GSA's Veterans Technology Services governmentwide acquisition contract.

People

Pentagon talks up BMMP

DOD's says its Business Management Modernization Program has increased visibility and understanding of DOD business systems.

People

White House floats policy on privacy that straddles lawmakers’ opposing views

A fight over privacy is brewing on Capitol Hill, and it has nothing to do with the Homeland Security Department screening travelers or the General Services Administration’s lost credit-card data.

People

Student tracker proposed

The Education Department wants to create a federal database to track college students.

People

The $36 billion man

Kevin Carroll manages Army IT programs with a human touch.

People

Latest projection has IT budget on upward trend

Federal IT spending will remain on the fast track through the end of the decade, according to a new forecast from Input.