People

National ID card debate

A Legal View: The problems a national ID card would cause outweigh the benefits

Digital Government

Cyber bills find support

A Senate panel April 24 endorsed two pieces of security legislation

Acquisition

New GSA terms may end lease moratorium

Agencies can once again enter into leasing agreements with vendors under GSA technology schedule contracts

Digital Government

IT extends NASA vision

Information technology has a stake in NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe's new vision for the space agency

People

Earth 911 site fills e-gov niche

Nonprofit sets up portal for environmental data collected by 10,000 local agencies

Digital Government

Gates: Tablet will improve e-gov

Several emerging technologies promise to vastly improve the functionality of e-government, Gates says

People

A new sense of purpose

GSA's Disaster Recovery Services program features services from IBM Corp. and SunGard Recovery Services

People

Fedwire

Zaidman heads to private sector; Outsourcing panel preps report; Benefits site officially launched; Weather Service taps CIO

People

Rethinking Plan B

Agency backup plans should address continuity, not recovery, experts say

People

Army knowledge portal needs backup

The Army Knowledge Online lacks the funding for a 'mirror' site to keep the portal online if the primary server fails

Digital Government

Agencies lack infosec resources

Agencies are struggling to find the resources to follow through on information security weaknesses they find

Digital Government

The Circuit

Treasury CIO Office makeover; Stop calling!; Patchy support

Digital Government

Earth 911 site a model for e-gov

Nonprofit's portal for environmental data is cited as a workable model that could be widely used in e-government

Digital Government

Letter to the editor

Responding to homeland comments

People

State rep on CIO Council departs

West Virginia's chief technology officer will resign May 10, a move that also affects states' representation on the federal CIO Council

People

Forman's team funds four projects

When Office of Management and Budget officials chose which of the 24 e-government initiatives would receive funding from the $5 million appropriated by Congress for fiscal 2002, they looked at the business cases the agencies submitted.

Digital Government

Industry hails cyber R&D bill

Panel of scientists and businessmen discuss cybersecurity R&D and NET Guard legislation

People

By the numbers

Just as air bags and electronic ignitions are universal in today’s cars, Internet access has become a baseline for libraries.

People

7,100 apply in first 2 days of virtual job fair

Applicants flocked to the virtual IT job fair last week presented by the CIO Council and Office of Personnel Management.

Digital Government

Letters to the editor

Another round on homeland security