Digital Government
Letters to the Editor
The path to every federal employee having a truly personal computer would be a business case. ['A vision for egovernment,' Federal Computer Week, April 10] This would be a more aggressive approach and would yield a more analytical outcome.
Acquisition
GTSI unveiling customer Web site
The government reseller's new site will give government customers and vendors a central site for technology information and purchases
Digital Government
CIOs look into the 'e-future'
Annual State of the States briefing includes much discussion on various states' pursuits of e-government
People
Arizona to give tax credit for IT training
The state becomes the first in the country to use a tax incentive to bolster its technology work force
Digital Government
Partnership broadens agency offerings
Force 3 Inc., a network solutions provider, last week announced a partnership with Peregrine Systems, which specializes in infrastructure management
Digital Government
Engine promises precise XML searches
Xdex, which ships this week, is the first offtheshelf indexing engine for XML and promises to deliver highperformance, contextsensitive searches
People
New York awards $351 million Medicare contract
The system, to be managed by Computer Sciences Corp., will allow the state to handle claims online
Digital Government
PictureTel forms ASP subsidiary
PictureTel Corp. is forming 1414c, an application service provider that can supply IPbased communications to agencies
People
Fed-friendly regs
The Office of Personnel Management wants to give feds a break. OPM in February issued proposed regulations that would permit fulltime federal employees to use up to 12 administrative work weeks of sick leave each year to care for a family member with a serious health condition.
People
How to operate in 'Netscape time'
Few would argue that the government must become leaner, lighter and more agile to meet the challenges of the Information Age. Dwindling resources and the highspeed nature of electronic business demand that federal agencies adopt industry's most effective tactics.
People
Online training takes off
Tight budgets and lean staffs prompt big investments in computerbased training
Modernization
Cutting through the noise
Think of the airwaves as tens of thousands of multilane intersecting highways with the traffic ? communications signals ? to match.
Digital Government
Out of Africa
Redwing Satellite Solutions near London provides the wireless connectivity portion of the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria. Among the components Redwing supplies are the ground-based satellite hardware, use of the company's ground station hub in the United Kingdom, backhaul to the Internet backbone and rental of the space segment.
People
Feds losing paper chase
Congress wanted to know how well federal agencies are carrying out the 1995 Paperwork Reduction Act, so the General Accounting Office wrote a 20page report. You don't have to read between the lines to learn that results are not good.
People
Rx for the digital divide
The Health Resources and Services Administration recently announced the launch of a pilot program that will provide Internetbased medical records for physicians and patients nationwide in HRSAfunded community health centers.
Digital Government
Compaq flat panels prepped for future
In some government workplaces, space is at a premium. One way agencies can stuff more technology into tighter spaces aboard a submarine or a mobile command center, for example is to use flatpanel displays.
Digital Government
Beyond.com adds license tracking
Beyond.com recently released the latest version of its Enterprise Download Manager with a new licensetracking feature.
People