People
Air Force readies service BPAs
The Air Force plans to award seven BPAs for IT services worth up to $650 million over five years
Digital Government
Spare parts, sparer accounting
The Defense Department reports that a shortage of spare parts has caused a decline in military readiness.
Modernization
Qwest FTS protest dismissed
Upholding a previous decision by the General Services Administration, the General Accounting Office dismissed a protest by Qwest Communications International Inc. against GSA's extension of FTS 2000 longdistance contracts held by AT?#038; Amp;T and Sprint.
People
Experience is the best teacher
Agencies are responsible for posting on the Procurement Executives Council's Web site any positions they might have available as part of the Acquisition Rotational Program.
Digital Government
Keeping tabs on new doctors
The doctors in the St. Louis University Family Practice Residency program, operated in cooperation with the Air Force, need to keep track of the procedures performed by resident doctors who are working to earn their stripes as fullfledged doctors.
Digital Government
Navigating a course takes accurate data
Financial management is a subject that can often seem complex and arcane
Digital Government
Who knows where the money goes?
Not DOD, which struggles to straighten out its woeful finance systems, auditors say
People
Bringing IT to battle
The Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is a collaborative effort among the Army, the University of Southern California and the entertainment industry to develop realistic simulation and virtual reality tools
People
E-gov at the borderline
'Government without borders' is the next big challenge for information technology managers in the Digital Age, according to state and federal officials.
People
Wildfire system rolling out
Two of three main components of an application to manage firefighting resources are being deployed
People
Tell me a story
It is only natural, in James Skurka's view, that the military should turn to the entertainment industry for help because simulation is really about the art of storytelling and making that story real and emotionally compelling.
Digital Government
Primer on high performance
Social capital in organizations builds through everyday interactions.
Digital Government
Demand for storage grows
Network storage might not sound exciting, but it's one of the most soughtafter technologies in the federal government
People
Canada securing e-gov
Canada, which already has the most advanced electronic government in the world, has hired a consortium of companies to help develop the privacy and security features needed to expand its online government services
Digital Government
Feds mull business registry
GSA is leading a project to create a single place on the Internet for businesses to access information on government registration and reporting requirements
Digital Government