People
Mental health parity
Federal employees in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program will receive the same coverage for mental health and substance abuse as they do for other illnesses, starting with the 2001 plan year.
People
Commercial push renewed
The Pentagon's Nov. 6 announcement that it is revising regulations governing the purchase of commercial products for information systems doesn't break new ground so much as confirm trends in procurement, according to military officials.
Acquisition
B2G, take two
Earlier this year, Tony Bansal had maneuvered his business-to- government e-commerce company into what seemed to be the perfect position. Not long after, the company's can't-miss strategy was a little off the mark.
People
Boeing, Lockheed to study next-gen GPS
The Air Force awards Boeing, Lockheed contracts to study options for the nextgeneration Global Positioning System
People
Raise gets mixed reviews
The Office of Personnel Management's plan to raise the salaries of about 33,000 information technology workers in government has drawn both praise and disappointment from employees
People
HUD IT under house arrest
In a rare public rebuke, Congress recently criticized the Department of Housing and Urban Development for its poor personnel management practices and for siphoning money from its information technology budget to cover unrelated expenses.
Digital Government
NASA splits security duties
NASA has created an office to oversee security, but the new Office of Security Management and Safeguards will assume responsibility for only a portion of the agency's computer operations
People
Risky business
As director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Frank Fernandez would rather see someone try and fail than never try at all.
People
A patent improvement
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is now receiving the first of what could be tens of thousands of patent applications filed electronically this fiscal year.
Digital Government
'Hits' don't measure up
Hit counts tell agencies nothing about whether a site is achieving performance goals.
People
Where e-government and e-business compete
Employment services: The Labor Department runs America's Job Bank, which posts 1.5 million jobs for free. Private employment firms offer similar services.
People
The case for access
The Judicial Conference of the United States spells out alternatives for regulating access to legal records, both at court-houses and online. For example, the alternatives for civil case files
Digital Government
Defragging disks: A simpler solution
Federal agencies and corporate America are wasting billions of dollars a year on unnecessary hardware upgrades in an attempt to alleviate degraded performance on their networks when the real problem can be cheaply fixed without new equipment.
Acquisition
Reverse the course
The second experiment in reverse auctions at the General Services Administration is scheduled for Nov. 16. The U.S. Coast Guard's Aircraft Repair and Supply Center will use the auction to buy Falcon Jet aircraft parts and plans to make an award two weeks after the auction date.
People
Blurring the lines
The very idea sent shudders through the fastgrowing field of electronic tax preparation earlier this year. A giant in the tax business was thinking of entering the industry the Internal Revenue Service.
Digital Government
When unexpected costs surface
Contractors must prove they should be reimbursed for cost overruns.
Digital Government
ERP Version 2.0
You won't hear many companies talk about enterprise resource planning anymore.
Digital Government
SSA awards security support deal
SAIC has won a $45 million contract to provide security support services for the SSA Office of Finance, Assessment and Management
Digital Government
NASA tests Internet command
A demonstration this month may open the way for the command and control of space operations from the ground via the Internet
Digital Government