Digital Government

Getting innovative with funding

State and local cuts spur CIOs to seek out new sources of money

Digital Government

Doing it their way

Facing tight budgets after years of cuts, chief information officers in state and local governments are trying nontraditional methods to fund information technology initiatives.

Digital Government

ImmuneEngine

BBX Technologies Inc.'s ImmuneEngine seeks to secure computers running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system without slowing their performance and without the need for traditional file signature updates

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A crisis for Web preservation

Fugitive documents published on the Web are not being preserved

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Making technology work for record management

Tech execs and records managements need to understand each other, analysts say.

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MIDAS to model unwelcome touch

The four grants that the National Institute of General Medical Sciences awarded in May for the institute's Models of Infectious Disease Agents Study program

Digital Government

Cashing in on grant money

The recommendations from the Task Force on State and Local Homeland Security Funding address a wide range of problems at all levels of government in getting funding quickly to the responders who need it.

Modernization

Sizing up coded message options

Feds face numerous ? and nuanced ? encryption schemes for securing e-mail

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Comings and goings

Bruce Brody, Donna Morea, Carl Wright

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Bugs in the system

Government primes multipronged effort to detect and counter bioterrorism attacks

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Book excerpt: Management after Sept. 11

Addressing the need to increase the focus and effectiveness of the federal government.

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Users comin' on over to e-gov sites

The latest customer satisfaction survey says that loyalty to government sites is growing.

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Agencies weigh COOP outsourcing

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Digital Government

The graying of the IT workforce

The CIO Council's Clinger-Cohen Assessment Survey found that federal technology employees are aging and poised to retire in the next several years.

Digital Government

Crawling for content

Government Printing Office officials are investigating the use of Web-crawler and data-mining technologies to capture government information published on the Web.

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DHS' new network

The goal of the Homeland Security Information Network is to provide real-time network connections that will deliver up-to-date information and the ability to collaborate online to all homeland security officials, from the federal level down to local first responders.

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Web satisfaction scores rising

E-government achieves high citizen satisfaction ratings, according to recent survey results.

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Funding is limited, solution choices are not

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Acquisition

GSA gets ITOP contract

The General Services Administration will run DOT?s $10 billion Information Technology Omnibus Procurement.

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Putting records to work

FBI creates a records management organization that helps agents fight crime