People
Commerce IT gets small boost
Budget includes $133 million increase for Census data collecting.
People
HHS budget focuses on bioterror, e-health efforts
Health and Human Services would receive $5.3 billion for IT next year, nearly 2 percent more than it expects to spend this year.
People
Education enrolls help for student aid programs
The department has tapped Pearson Government Solutions to support student financial-aid programs under a 10-year contract worth up to $800 million.
Digital Government
DOT requests 5 percent IT hike
Technology for rail safety and intelligent transportation systems would get more money in the proposed 2006 budget.
Modernization
Microsoft to buy Sybari
The purchase would move Microsoft into the virus protection business.
Modernization
Air Force, Navy search for Common Link
The Common Link Integration Processing software will let Air Force and Navy aircraft and ships share information without using radio communications.
Modernization
DOD goes for plain old IT
The Pentagon wants more money for base and installation IT infrastructure projects while the Army doesn't plan to buy any JTRS radios in fiscal 2006.
Digital Government
State and local IT picture improves
Market research firm IDC sees better times ahead for companies that sell information technology products and services to state and local government.
People
Budget calls for Student Aid upgrade
Otherwise, the Education Department's IT budget request is flat.
Digital Government
USDA seeks common computing funds
The Bush administration would add about $116 million to the Agriculture Department's IT budget.
People
DHS plan highlights high-risk areas
State and local areas at greater risk for a terrorist attack could get more funding in President Bush's fiscal 2006 spending plan.
Digital Government
Patent office sticks to automation
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officials plan to stay focused on automating the agency's patent systems in fiscal 2006 if lawmakers approve President Bush's $308 million budget request for USPTO's chief information officer.
People
Matthews: IT makes driving safer
Information technology helps the Transportation Department improve vehicle safety, the agency's chief information officer said.
Digital Government
Interior aims for modernization
The department's Investment Review Board identified about 100 systems that will be retired in the next three years.
People
FinCEN to deploy data-sharing system
The Treasury agency will launch a system March 1 so law enforcement and financial institutions can share information about people suspected of financing terrorist activities.<@SM>
Digital Government
thePipeline
New products from Blue Coat Systems, Sunbelt Software and Webroot Software.
People
Welles: Many ways to serve
Most federal employees are integral parts of the communities where they live
Modernization
Postal Service freeing envelope space
New software will support single bar code standard for intelligent mail
Digital Government