People
Trusted at Treasury
Don Hagerling doesn't wear a uniform. His basement office at the Treasury Department is nonthreatening no cameras, monitors or metal detectors, not even a signin sheet for visitors.
People
Intell turf battles rage
Major portions of a bill that would authorize appropriations for the U.S. intelligence community would significantly limit the Defense Department's ability to support military operations, warn Defense Secretary William Cohen and his top military adviser.
People
Delaware OKs digital signatures bill
State officials hope the new law will promote electronic commerce in the state, which has a high number of Fortune 500 firms
Digital Government
Opening up GIS borders
HUD taps ESRI to make federal geographic data open to state, local governments
People
Medicare fix may be bad medicine
Although the check may not be in the mail as quickly as doctors would like, a government plan to modernize Medicare's payment system for doctors could cost too much to adopt.
Digital Government
Customs funding clears hurdle
A House appropriations subcommittee earmarked money last week to keep the U.S. Customs Service modernization program alive for another year
Acquisition
IT contractors must follow NASA security rules
Though contractors weren't obligated to before, new guidelines make sure contractors do as NASA would to safeguard data
Digital Government
Air traffic displays modernized
The replacement of old systems is the first step in the modernization of the enroute air traffic control system infrastructure
People
A war, not a battle
Intelligence experts characterized the latest report on the bill from the House Armed Services Committee as little more than a tool in the struggle for control over the intelligence budget between the House and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, chaired by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.).
Digital Government
E-learning standards lag
As the e-learning market takes off, so does the need to build standards that will integrate products in blended technology environments.
Digital Government
Pendragon shows good Forms
Handheld computers have been perennial underachievers for federal departments and agencies interested in mobile data collection.
People
Workers to count on
Sharon Connelly had been unemployed for four years when she was hired as a temporary worker at the Census Bureau's Baltimore data capture center. The center is one of three temporary sites along with Phoenix, Ariz., and Pomona, Calif. established by the bureau to handle the massive amounts of information coming in from Census 2000.
People
Of politics and premiums
Federal employees enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program are going to see their premiums rise in 2001
Digital Government
Digital Earth: A political sphere
As with everything else in 2000, presidential politics is affecting the course of Digital Earth. Given the current political atmosphere, there's no guarantee that Digital Earth will have the necessary support to go forward, even if Vice President Al Gore is elected president.
Digital Government
Bumps along the road
Experts say the government must overcome several technological challenges before Digital Earth takes shape
Acquisition
A computer to track computers
Procurement reform was supposed to improve the way agencies bought and used information technology. But Congress, the White House and agencies have had little reliable data to determine if the reforms are working or if agencies are complying with them.
People
Making quick turnarounds
Expected benefits of the Deployment Personnel Accountability and Readiness Tool
Digital Government
Big ideas, small steps
The federal government has rarely shied from trying to construct grandiose information systems that test the limits of technology
Digital Government
HP's weapon in the paperless wars
While many government agencies have made strides toward going paperless, most still depend on one of the great paper producers of all times the fax machine for transmitting and receiving nonelectronic documents. And as long as the fax is still king of the office, it seems the paperless goal will remain a chimera.
People