Digital Government

Preserving e-history for all

Efforts to capture Web snapshots expose e-records dilemmas

People

DOD 'tail' needs a trim

To lower its support costs by billions of dollars, the Defense Department needs to replicate outsourcing efforts such as the Navy Marine Corps Intranet

Digital Government

A new generation of laws

This season, lawmakers are busy revamping rules to complement the Internet Age

Digital Government

NSF forms cyber panel

A new advisory committee at the National Science Foundation will report this summer on how the agency's research instruments, supercomputers and high-performance networks could be integrated into a more powerful cyberinfrastructure.

Digital Government

Creating a virtual medical market

NIH site aims to link small hardware vendors and agency buyers

People

CIOs get high-level face time

Chief information officers at dozens of federal agencies believe they are gradually gaining influence among their agencies' top decisionmakers.

Acquisition

Data-rights reform needed

As Bush administration officials settle down to business, procurement policy is likely to be among the first subjects they address

People

Workforce a priority for Accenture

Accenture is taking aim at government workforce problems with a new service designed to help agencies address their human resources needs

People

Alaska asks for E-Rate exception

Several rural Alaskan communities hope to access the Internet via lines intended for schools or libraries and funded by the federal E-Rate program

People

OPM readies new IT job series

The Office of Personnel Management is one step closer to changing how jobs performed by federal information technology workers are structured and defined, a move that will bring government more in line with the private sector.

Digital Government

New SEC site built for speed

The Securities and Exchange Commission relaunches its Web site.

Digital Government

With thin servers, you can pay as you grow

Dell Computer Corp. says thin servers are the fastestgrowing product line in its business.

People

System monitors flood-prone creeks

When rain is forecast in Palo Alto, Calif., city workers and residents may turn to a new Web site to learn how fast their creeks are rising

Digital Government

Does Lotus have a future with DMS?

The company's share is shrinking, but Lotus Development Corp. is still an important part of DMS

People

Directory assistance

A developing tool makes it easier for agencies to meld information into one directory

People

Privacy vs. access

Courts debate online access to case files

Digital Government

Jewel in the Middle East

Dubai is moving rapidly into the Information Age.

Digital Government

Defense Wire

Fourteen companies will share the fourth and final lot of a $4 billion omnibus contract awarded by the Army Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command...

People

Two states choose NIC for e-procurement

Government buyers in South Carolina and Hawaii will start using an electronic system to streamline purchasing

Digital Government

Making sense of a mixed-up market

The Web-based collaboration software market is so new that industry analysts are still trying to figure out how to categorize it.