Digital Government
NASA Web site readies for next Mars landing
Agency's officials expect 40 times more traffic early next year for rover mission
People
Customs CIO to retire
Charles Armstrong, who runs Customs modernization program, will be acting CIO
People
Coast Guard intranet named in 10 best
Nielsen Norman Group described it as 'surprisingly good-looking for a government intranet.'
Digital Government
A fortress in a box
FortiGate 3600 offers a smorgasbord of security services on one machine
Digital Government
Westbridge releases XML server
The middleware product limits users' access to information.
Acquisition
See you in court
Aronie: Companies are too hesitant to turn to the courts or the general accounting office to protect their rights
Digital Government
Stillman: 'This is...the way to do business'
Rear Adm. Patrick Stillman, executive officer for the Coast Guard's Integrated Deepwater System program, extolled the virtues of performance-based acquisitions at a conference last week.
People
Morphing transformation
It is worth pushing back the Army's transformation initiatives a few more years to filed technologies that can have an impact today.
People
House appropriators cut Iraq IT funding
The House Appropriations Committee slashed more than $300 million from the IT funds requested in President Bush's supplemental spending proposal.
Digital Government
Minnesota carves e-recruiting path
An online resume application accelerated hiring and cut costs for the state.
People
Future is now for Army tech
Technology developed as part of long-term project now being shipped to soldiers in Iraq
People
Army transformation changes direction
Much ballyhooed Future Combat System could lose ground in the push toward digitization servicewide
Digital Government
Waiting on apps
High-performance computing users in scientific and biomedical areas are accustomed to developing their own software
Acquisition
OMB reports progress with competition goals
A Bush administration report designed to promote its competitive sourcing initiative shows that controversy over the initiative is not likely to fade
People
HUD creates central program office
Goal: Boost oversight, accountability of enterprise projects
Digital Government
Portals could lower grid barriers
A project intended to make computing grids easier to use is the largest of 20 initiatives that the National Science Foundation has founded - to the tune of $9 million
Digital Government
Alaska moves documents to Web
Over the last two years, the state Recorder's Office has made its mainframe indexing system accessible over the Web and is slowly putting more documents online.
People
Full rollout of DOD access cards delayed
Troop deployment, technology glitches push back schedule
Digital Government