Digital Government

Sharing is focus of homeland IT

Information technology programs make up about 2 percent of the homeland security budget

People

Interior accounts for trust reform

The department's budget proposal includes $671.6 million in overall IT spending -- about a $44 million increase

Digital Government

Customs budget bolsters borders

Administration's requested increase of 4 percent for Customs modernization is fueled by the Sept. 11 attacks

People

Interior will spend $65 million restoring Internet service

The Interior Department expects to spend $65 million over the next three years to restore Internet service and upgrade security, Interior Secretary Gale Norton said today.

People

Interior inches ahead with online operations

The department has taken tentative steps to restore operations, but major systems remain off-line

Digital Government

Security gaps defy easy fixes

Hackers from a computer security firm had no trouble breaking into the Bureau of Indian Affairs' $40 million trust accounting system

Digital Government

Keeping snowplows on the road

Highway administration tests system for boosting satellite-positioning data

People

'Show me the work!'

Commentary: Designing jobs with greater responsibility and autonomy is important

People

SSA tests digital certificates

SSA has taken another step forward in its effort to make wage reporting easy and electronic for the nation's 6.5 million employers

Digital Government

Putting the CTO to work

Edtorial: Defining the role of the CTO will be as difficult as many of the management challenges that OMB faces

Digital Government

Homeland Security Department coverage

Complete Homeland Security Department coverage

Digital Government

Small firms to get slice of IRS Prime

The Internal Revenue Service is offering small businesses a chance to get a piece of the action on the IRS modernization contract

People

Letters to the editor

Interior's shutdown mocks e-gov efforts; Knowledge management basics; Grasping the GovNet concept

Acquisition

Policy briefs

Bills to raise infosec know-how; Procurement execs set goals; NIST prepping security guides

Digital Government

9/11 workers on right wavelength

Report finds that public safety agencies responding to the attack on the Pentagon had little difficulty communicating

People

DOD seeks pay, personnel system

System should help managers make workforce decisions

Digital Government

Budget makes business case

Fiscal 2003 request bases more than $50 billion in IT investments on program effectiveness

People

Good returns for e-filing taxes

President Bush's 2003 budget includes two new bonuses to encourage taxpayers to file their yearly returns online

People

Protected disclosures

Bureaucratus column: An FAA employee was fired after taking potential terrorist data to faa security

Digital Government

Executive privilege

A Legal View: It's past time to release the energy policy group records