Modernization
Giving XML more muscle
New XML appliances offer to take a load off overworked agency servers
People
Editorial: Making records matter
Those on the front lines don't understand why maintaining records is important.
People
Exchanging the old for the new at the Pentagon
National Security Personnel System offers DOD greater flexibility
Digital Government
Better, stronger, faster
Officials from the Transportation Security Administration's new and improved Project Control Office aim for tighter business practices by sharpening their focus in the following areas
Acquisition
Aronie: Contractors? thorny position
Don't presume that federal clients are acting properly, says columnist Jonathan Aronie.
People
DHS' umbrella insurance plan
Agency offers four companies liability protection for anti-terrorism technology
Modernization
Committee to suggest ways to easier records management
The two biggest challenges agencies face are the inability of legacy systems to manage records and designing processes on the front end for new systems.
Modernization
Airport security's fast lane
TSA tries biometric data to speed fliers through airport checkpoints
Digital Government
The master builders
Integrators stand behind many agencies' enterprise architectures, but will the market keep growing?
Digital Government
Worker safeguards
Some unions and federal employees are concerned about certain elements of the National Security Personnel System that could create unfair working conditions and cronyism
Modernization
Taking cover
Under the Support Anti-terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act of 2002, products, equipment, services, devices and information technologies can qualify for liability protection.
People
Sprehe: Pop-up policies
Columnist Tim Sprehe says e-records management should minimize end-user involvement.
Acquisition
Refresh without the headaches
Integrators and agencies find new ways off the upgrade treadmill
People
Navy takes new shot at NMCI metrics
Officials are phasing out some provisions that have delayed efforts to attract users to NMCI.
Digital Government