People

Air Force reorg aims for authority, synergy

Managing acquisition and materiel like a military outfit, not a business

Modernization

Linux maker throws Red Hat into ring

Officials at Linux distributor Red Hat believe the federal market will become fertile ground for the open-source operating system.

People

DHS brain drain grows

Departures could hurt security mission

People

Youth is on his side

Virginia tech chief Eugene Huang brings fresh ideas to the commonwealth

Modernization

One big wireless net

What happens when you put two great wireless technologies together?

People

A new agenda

Kay Coles James was the star of the Bush administration's management reform team.

People

Comings and goings

News about Michael Chertoff, George Newstrom, Mitzi Mead, Patrick Hughes, Frank O'Mara, Jim Dillon, Carlos Solari, Scot Edwards, Todd Leto and Paul Liberty.

People

GSA remixed

Bush budget calls for merging of FSS and FTS

People

DOD's medical transformation

The military's health care system is becoming more efficient using technology

People

Sprehe: OMB's policy needs help

The pablum of a Web site policy was yesterday's news several years ago.

Digital Government

IT dodges Bush's proposed budget spending cuts

Administration seeks 7 percent increase in fiscal 2006 spending

People

VA gets fit with tech

Health care system's users find technology reduces problems

People

Better medicine without paper

Madigan Army Medical Center, south of Seattle, is testing a program for treating Department of Veterans Affairs patients and active and retired military personnel.

People

A model patient records system

The VA's VISTA software is tapped for expanded service

Acquisition

Aronie: Paying the subcontractors

GSA and DOD apparently disagree about who gets to reap any savings.

People

GSA issues RFI for e-travel data collection, analysis

The General Services Administration and the Defense Department are looking for vendors to manage the data from all agency electronic travel systems.

People

Social Security to collect personal data for Medicare drug plan

The Social Security Administration will collect and compare income, benefits and other personal information from several agencies related to seniors applying for assistance under the new Medicare drug benefit.

People

Novell’s Hula says ‘aloha’ to open source

BOSTON—Novell Inc. will open source the e-mail and calendar functions of its NetMail enterprise collaboration server software.

People

NIH accelerates posting of work it has funded

The National Institutes of Health is asking scientists to voluntarily make their biomedical research results available through the agency’s searchable database within 12 months of publication.

People

VA and SBA downgraded on security

The Veterans Affairs Department and Small Business Administration fell a notch in the latest e-government ratings on the President’s Management Agenda scorecard because of IT security weaknesses.