People
E-recruitment
For many agencies, the next generation of IT leaders is already toiling among their ranks, but with the projected exodus of IT workers during the next five years, other agencies will need to attract new talent.
Digital Government
In Brief
Xerox Corp. announced today its new Phaser 750 color laser printer, which features a 200 MHz processor that delivers 16 blackandwhite pages per minute or 5 pages per minute in color.
Digital Government
Investing Site a Draw in Wash.
Washington state officials knew there was a need for an Internet guide aimed at beginning online investors. But they had no idea just how big that need was.
Digital Government
Operating at tech's pace
The government is pursuing ways to keep policy and the public in tune with revolutionary advances in science and technology.
Digital Government
Paperwork reduction scam
This year is the 20th anniversary of the Paperwork Reduction Act, and the law will be up for reauthorization next year. This seems an opportune time for laying out the case that, in its essential aim of reducing government paperwork, the PRA is badly broken and needs an overhaul.
Digital Government
NOAA unveils Linux 'Jet' stream
The first Linux-based supercomputer to win competitive federal government procurement is also a big step forward for weather prediction.
Digital Government
NASA's new "spacecraft" ideal for small families
Part of the groundwork for last month's test of offtheshelf technology for earthtospacecraft communications was laid in February 1999, when NASA engineers launched the Voyager Plymouth Voyager, that is.
People
Juggling act
For years now, as the government payroll has gotten smaller, federal agencies have been told they must learn to use technology to 'do more with less.' In the coming years, doing more with less likely will mean outsourcing some IT projects altogether, which creates a new set of management problems.
People
DISA planning DMS upgrade
Hundreds of management workstations used in the Defense Message System will be replaced because of technical glitches and outdated software
Modernization
The Need for Speed
Broadband service is a category of telecommunications technology that provides multiple channels of data via a single communications medium, typically through some form of frequency or wave division multiplexing.
Digital Government
Seattle Measures its Digital Divide
It appears the country's radar has an increasingly strong fix on the digital divide.
Acquisition
GSA awards $1B in telecom deals
The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service awarded four multimilliondollar Metropolitan Area Acquisition contracts
Digital Government
Minn. teachers pilot online training
The program is designed to help teachers learn computer skills that they can use to incorporate technology into their curriculums
Digital Government
IT and politics a bad mix
Seeking to play off the early successes of the digital economy and digital government, presidential hopeful George W. Bush is piecing together his own electronic government initiative. That could be good news for the federal information technology community if political ideology is kept out of the plan. But that may be wishful thinking.
Digital Government
Tech Companies Team to Target Gov
Among the latest companies to team up to market their technology products to state and local governments are Intelisys Electronic Commerce Inc. with Information Management Specialists (Inform), and American Management Systems Inc. with govWorks.com.
Digital Government
Consensus Key to Oregon E-Commerce Pilots
When the Oregon Center for Electronic Commerce and Government set out to design its first 'proof of concept' e-commerce pilot projects last year, few of the state's agencies were eager to participate.
Digital Government
Ariz. Residents Have Say on State Web Site
Arizona's Government Information Technology Agency recently used online ballots to gauge what residents wanted on the state's World Wide Web site.
Digital Government
Fed brain trust formed
Entrust Technologies Inc., a provider of security products and services, has created a federal advisory board that reads like a who's who of information technology leaders in the federal market.
People
The right stuff
Government is entering a new era in which information technology will transform the way it works. But who will lead the charge?
Acquisition