Acquisition
VA releases data center RFP
The $500 million project would provide hardware, software and service to the center in Austin, Texas
People
Military HR deal goes to PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft Inc. became the Defense Department's choice for a standard human resources system for its 3.4 million employees.
Modernization
Army envisions wireless networks replacing TOCs
The sprawling battlefield command post that has been a mainstay of Army operations will eventually be replaced with a mobilecommunications infrastructure, service officials say
Digital Government
The Circuit
While the Justice Department presses Microsoft Corp. on antitrust charges here at home, the German government is hitting the software giant for being a 'back door' to National Security Agency
Digital Government
Micron sells fed PC unit
Micron Electronics Inc. has signed a letter of intent to sell its PC business, MicronPC.com
Digital Government
Carrying a big stick
The punishment was more than a year in the making. Last February, the Office of Management and Budget warned agencies that it would withhold fiscal 2002 funding for any information technology system that didn't include information security in its architecture.
People
Taxes '01: E-filing chugs on
Despite setbacks, agency determined to make online filing commonplace
Digital Government
The Web-hosting dilemma
The number of agencies that use Web hosting is very small.
People
NIH to try e-grant applications
The agency has chosen Digital Signature Trust Co. to lead two pilot projects using digital certificates.
Digital Government
Drawing blueprints for the future
A job like the Internal Revenue Service's 15-year modernization effort is what Computer Sciences Corp. was born to do.
People
USGS to put video catalog on the Web
The U.S. Geological Survey is tapping Convera to help it develop a Webbased, easily searchable catalog of its archive of scientific videos
Digital Government
3-D comes into focus on the Web
As VRML improves, agencies find uses for the once-flawed standard
People