People
UK authority puts issues online
A local governing council lets residents vote on the Web to set priorities on issues.
People
Congress faces sourcing rules
Challenges to the rules controlling the competitive sourcing of federal jobs are mounting in the House and Senate.
Digital Government
Senate budget committee cuts BSM funds
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved less than half of the IRS' 2005 request for Business Systems Modernization.
Digital Government
SGI used to predict Ivan
When NASA weather forecasters tried to plot the path of Hurricane Ivan this week, they turned to a Silicon Graphics Inc. supercomputer.
People
Public storms NOAA site
Eight days in September generated 200 million hits ? equal to one-third of NOAA's online traffic for all of 2003.
Modernization
Army centralizes IT services and applications
The Army’s third version of its knowledge management portal will make it easier for users to share a key resource—information.
People
Harvey: CIO to Army Secretary
Francis Harvey was formally nominated as secretary of the Army and withdrawn as nominee for DOD chief information officer.
Modernization
OMB to call for shared finance and HR apps
The Bush administration is crafting a plan to outsource the government’s financial and human resources processing to vendors and federal service centers. <b>Tim Young</b>, OMB’s associate administrator for e-government and IT, has said the plan involves “...IT hosting services at a minimum."
Modernization
Power of the portal
Technology has always been an enabler for knowledge management, but “for the first time portal technology is now the driver,” the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.’s Elsa Rhoads says.
People
Election group ponders absentees
A federal commission created to study voting issues is considering best practices for absentee voters overseas.
People
Unisys to help DOD with health care records
The Defense Department has awarded Unisys Corp. a contract potentially worth more than $130 million to provide worldwide implementation and training services for the department’s electronic medical records system.
Modernization
From e-forms to workflow
When sales representatives from Adobe Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. come calling to chat about electronic forms, they will say that e-forms and workflow are closely intertwined.
Modernization
Navy may face problems with DD(X) engineering development models
As the Navy builds and tests 10 subsystems under its multibillion-dollar DD(X) warships program, the Government Accountability Office has found that none of the technologies used in the engineering development models will demonstrate a high level of maturity before a contract is awarded for construction of the first ship.
Modernization
SBA attributes agency ‘greening’ to better management, accountability
Not too long ago, the Small Business Administration’s IT projects were in disarray. But management practices instituted by Stephen Galvan, now SBA’s chief of staff and chief operating officer, and deputy CIO Jerry Williams started to take hold. <@SM>
Modernization
Five lines-of-business projects are under way
Finance and human resources are two of five lines-of-business consolidation efforts.
Modernization
Paper Cut
The Office of Management and Budget last year began requiring all Exhibit 300 data to be tagged in Extensible Markup Language—a change that distressed more than a few agency planners.
People
Council sets $35m plan for e-acquisition in ’06
The government’s procurement chiefs know what they want to spend on a federal acquisition portal; now they have to make sure the government’s money chiefs will pony up the funding.
People
EDS to upgrade USCIS records
Sytel hired EDS as a subcontractor to help modernize USCIS records management.
Digital Government
House may act on cybersecurity liability protection
Members of the House subcommittee that oversees cybersecurity may introduce a bill based on an industry group's suggestions.
Modernization