Digital Government

Giving life to GPRA

John Mercer pioneered spending/performance tie

Digital Government

Building the Next Generation Internet

CommerceNet program to demonstrate value of NGI in everyday work

Digital Government

Kenamea targets Web-based messaging

If it is to be the platform for deploying e-business, the NGI needs reliable, secure and event-driven communications

Digital Government

SDSC searches for security

The San Diego Supercomputer Center aims to balance the trade-offs between supporting transactions and securing the network

People

Unions ready to fight Bush management plan

The Freedom to Manage initiative could be losing some of its momentum

People

Pangea focuses on assistive technologies

The Pangea Foundation is developing a suite of middleware technologies to help application developers construct Web pages with assistive capabilities embedded in them

People

Ending a moot debate

Editorial: The debate over a national identification card has been unfortunately cast as Big Brother vs. civil liberties

Digital Government

Information on demand

The National Cancer Institute operates an instant-messaging service in which trained cancer information specialists answer questions and help people

Digital Government

Managing an information crisis

A bill approved last week by the House Science Committee includes a provision to set up a research center to investigate ways technology could help government agencies respond to crises

Digital Government

Sifting through crisis info

Provision in bill would set up research center to investigate ways technology could help agencies respond to crises

People

Navy finds a more efficient mail call

Lotus Development Corp.'s Domino is helping the Navy streamline electronic communications with the ships of the Atlantic and Pacific fleets

People

SAIC lands Spawar contract

SSC San Diego acquires engineering services to support voice and data communications

People

Managers peg e-gov, culture as top concerns

Improving electronic services, not security, is the No. 1 challenge, according to study

People

Gauging IT investments

A new process to evaluate information technology investments using science, statistics and mathematical models is getting so much attention that even the government's statistical experts will take it for a spin early next year

Digital Government

Letters to the editor

FirstGov Affirms Availability; Collaboration at Work; IT Workers for Homeland Security

People

Logistics update pays dividends

The Air Force this month begins testing an update to one of its central logistics systems that could help supply its forces in the Middle East

People

Siebel picks its targets

Vendor views customer relationship management as central to homeland security, e-government initiatives

People

Place security before politics

Bureaucratus column: Federal employees probably will be paid twice as much as their private-sector counterparts, attracting more skilled workers

People

Tapping a data mother lode

CIA spin-off sees wealth of information in e-mail, Web pages and other sources

People

IRS takes on old-style paperwork

The IRS has signed a licensing deal for software to scan reams of paper documents into its computer databases