People

Harvard suggests improvements for Regulations.gov

Technologies can greatly enhance the project, says a Harvard University center.

People

Planning for personnel changes

Chief human capital officers hope to eliminate hiring obstacles

People

Customs tests money tracker

Officials will spend three months putting the Automated Commercial Environment through its paces.

People

Lawmakers balk at US-VISIT award

Provision would block Accenture bid, citing company's offshore parent

People

European Commission wants visa comments

European officials are soliciting public comment on the Visa Information System.

Digital Government

SRA promotes executives

Eleven are moving up.

People

Congress puts out welcome mat for state CIOs

State IT execs visit Washington seeking improved communication

Digital Government

Circuit

The gift of diligence; Breathe easy - or not; Disappearing act; The Duke rides again; FCW Router

People

Mazzucchi to lead CECOM

Brig. Gen. Mike Mazzucchi will take over for retiring Maj. Gen. William Russ.

People

Four universities to test preservation handling

Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Old Dominion will be partners in a test of procedures for handling large digital collections slated for preservation.

Modernization

Meeting face to face

Ubiquitous IP networks fuel videoconferencing rollouts

Modernization

Taking data to a higher plane

Success has made reducing airline accidents and near misses into a difficult task. The most common, and most potent, causes are known and have been addressed by technology or better procedures. The remaining causes are more subtle, and therefore harder to pinpoint.

Modernization

How tools find patterns in flight

In January, Megaputer Intelligence Inc. and Southwest Airlines completed a proof-of-concept demonstration of flight-data analysis and presented their findings to the Global Aviation Information Network, an airline safety community of interest that maintains a Web site at www.gainweb.org.</a>

Acquisition

Vets get more business than was thought

SBA reports that veteran-owned firms got more business than had previously been reported.

People

USDA to transfer service center workers to central IT

Agency will shift former field office employees to USDA's central IT group.

Modernization

Equitrac boosts control of paper mountain

Equitrac Office 3.0 gives IT administrators control document distribution and costs

People

Ohio votes yes on e-voting

Ohio approves voting machines with paper trail

Digital Government

Navy seeks ERP cooperation

Navy awards $13.4 million contract to review ERP pilots.

Modernization

DHS Issues Oracle Warning

Officials used the National Cyber Alert System to warn about database vulnerabilities

People

House panel seeks homeland spending boost

House Appropriations Committee proposes $2.8 billion more than fiscal 2004