People
Restructuring the NSA
Recommendations to NSA director Michael Hayden to improve NSA management:
People
Portrait of a displaced Navy intranet worker
When the Navy awards its longawaited N/MCI contract in September, it will substantially alter the government careers of nearly 2,000 IT workers
People
Tracking agency performance via the Web
For several years, agencies have struggled with how to use performance measures to improve the way they manage and budget their programs, including the ones driven by information technology systems.
People
Army fights skills gap online
The Army is hoping to keep its highly skilled troops already sought by the betterpaying private sector in uniform by making them even more highly skilled.
People
Four thumbs up
The five agencies that have awarded task orders from the General Services Administration's Seat Management contract run the gamut in terms of size and environment.
Digital Government
SGI, Intergraph form alliance
Silicon Graphics Inc. and Intergraph are forming a $100 million supercomputer strategic alliance
Digital Government
Texas makes it easier to follow the money
Candidates can now file their campaign finance documents online, where it will be easier for people to search them
Digital Government
Census counts fewer devices
When it came time to replace the copiers at the Census Bureau's economic planning and coordination division, the agency decided it would be easier to buy new devices that could double as printers.
Digital Government
Hill demands results from feds
House members last week said they intend to keep pressuring agencies and Congress to use program performance measurements to determine whether agencies are accomplishing their missions.
Digital Government
SBA on modernization path
SBA is making progress on its sytems, but GAO is concerned that policies and procedures needed to support changes in IT investment are not in place
Acquisition
Letters to the Editor
As a frequent user of Advantage, I applaud the General Services Administration's efforts to get more detail on items
People
What's up with Seat?
When the General Services Administration awarded the first desktop outsourcing contract two years ago this month, many agencies met the deal with skepticism and even downright disdain.
People
DOD reining in software buys
The Defense Department has approved a draft version of a policy that would direct the DOD information technology community to first consider using existing Pentagon programs for all commercial software purchases before orchestrating major acquisitions.
People
OPM pitches IT job family
The Office of Personnel Management last week proposed a new job family for federal information technology occupations that would make it easier to recruit and retain IT workers.
Modernization
What's Ultra-wideband?
Ultra-wideband uses a short, narrow pulse signal with a unique signature that can be picked up by receivers equipped with a special chip.
People
Navy reaps savings with biz tool
The Naval Undersea Warfare Center at Newport, R.I., has saved as much as $1.5 million a year as a result of a business intelligence program that has helped the agency eliminate unneeded paper and personnel and redundant data entry costs, according to officials at the center.
People
VA dispatches digital copiers
To reduce the amount of equipment that telecommuters have to lug home and maintain, the Department of Veterans Affairs is issuing home office-class multifunction printers from Hewlett-Packard Co. to employees who work from home.
People