Digital Government

Microsoft, GovPartner form team

Firms will target small and medium governments that do not have big technology budgets

People

IT czar should be leader first

E-government experts suggest that a management expert would be more valuable than a technology whiz

Digital Government

Life insurance basics, Part 4

FCW's Friday Financials column answers the question: What can you expect during a visit with your life insurance agent?

People

Letter to the editor

Cut costs, not people and jobs

Digital Government

E-biz upgrade on hold

The Military Sealift Command is holding back on updating its financial management software

Digital Government

NASA extends services pact

Contract with Computer Sciences Corp. delivers information services to NASA facilities

People

Delaware targets job turnover

The state's newest online feature gives businesses information to help keep employees content

People

FAA beams data to travelers

A new wireless service can send travelers real-time airport status information via e-mail

Acquisition

Rule reinforces performance buys

Interim rule makes it clear that performance-based acquisitions are the preferred way to buy commercial services

Digital Government

How to handle sites' teen years

FCW's Dot-Gov Thursday column urges agencies to make an inventory of their Web sites

People

D.C. court pilots e-filing

Electronic filing mandated for a year to see how it streamlines busy court's legal process

Digital Government

Letter to the Editor

Cost-of-living adjustments bad all over

People

Vermont site boosts businesses

State hopes new Web features help market businesses and ease the way to securing contracts

Digital Government

IRS leadership ready for more funding

IRS commissioner says agency has the management structure to handle additional funds for modernization

People

Overruns plague patient data system

GAO says DOD and the VA have made little progress on a system to share health records

People

Feds rack up travel card debt

Federal employees are abusing their travel charge cards and defaulting on millions of dollars

Digital Government

Armey: Records open to prying feds

House majority leader contends new privacy regs don't shield medical records well enough

Acquisition

NSA may expand outsourcing

Agency's outsourcing efforts likely will not end with the $5 billion Groundbreaker project

People

Two-year ergo timetable 'ambitious'

Labor Secretary says a new ergonomics standard will take longer than a senator's deadline

Digital Government

Hackers vandalize California sites

Posting anti-American and pro-China phrases, hackers defaced two California state agency Web sites