People
Intercepts
My Treasury Department snoops report that the department is preparing to deny a protest from a Lotus Development Corp. reseller who claims that his company has not been given a fair shake in supplying an alternative to Microsoft Corp. products.
People
Bold new bid
Caterpillar Inc., the bulldozer builder, decided to experiment with an online auction for buying hydraulic parts and watched with glee as the price of stainless steel connectors dropped from 30 cents to 22 cents apiece.
Modernization
Ultra-wideband makes waves
Finding a needle in a haystack isn't child's play anymore, thanks to X-rays, radar detectors and metal detectors. But how about finding a person behind a wall of a burning, smoke-filled building? Or pinpointing the location of a lost soldier in a foggy valley?
Digital Government
IRS requests more IT funds
The Internal Revenue Service needs more money for its longterm modernization program to replace a system that still uses tape to store taxpayer data.
Digital Government
Postal Service becomes a dot-com
The U.S. Postal Service launched a new World Wide Web site last week that not only offers new services, but a new address as well
Acquisition
E-catalog pilot raises doubts
The Government Catalog Interoperability Pilot, a key element in the federal government's push toward a World Wide Webbased open buying environment, has been judged a success by its participants, at least in showing the feasibility of the concept. Installing a fullscale version of the pilot, however, is another matter.
Digital Government
Does this ASP have bite?
An application service provider (ASP) is in the business of offering your organization access, for a fee, to a remotely hosted computer application. Your users most likely would access the application using Internet protocols and a standard Web browser. The ASP takes care of all the details arranging for computers to run the application, software and hardware maintenance, and their side of the telecommunications connection.
People
OMB issues A-130 revisions
In the midst of a lawsuit to force federal agencies to make public information more readily available to the public, the Office of Management and Budget has issued revisions to its Circular A130
Digital Government
Minor Web security threat surfaces
Microsoft has acknowledged a minor threat posed by a 'backdoor' password in server software that could be exploited to gain access to Web pages
People
Postal Service first to try online reverse auctions
The U.S. Postal Service has put its stamp of approval ? at least tentatively ? on online auctions.
People
Internet, interagency
There is so much talk about estuff these days that one is tempted to cry out 'enough!' However, just as no one today would refer to their TV remote control or cable as 'technology,' we soon will drop the 'e' because that will just be the way things are.
Digital Government
Agencies pushed toward PKI
Amid the drive to put more government services on the Internet, federal officials are urging agencies to secure information systems and are providing the technical and legal tools to help.
People
Savings abound
For $1.3 million in fees, Pennsylvania reaped $8.5 million in savings in 1999 by using online auctions to make purchases ranging from coal for heating, aluminum for making license plates and salt for melting ice on roads.
Digital Government
Hill probes IT management
Four years after Congress passed a law requiring top IT managers to defend spending tens of billion of dollars on information technology every year, two senators have asked agencies to show how well they have complied.
Digital Government
Letters to the Editor
The cost to the government to become more inclusive in providing better access to services for persons with disabilities by adopting the proposed Access Board recommendations for accessibility is minuscule, not extravagant ['Access regs too pricey?' FCW, April 3].
People
Ignore e-records at own risk
The rule of thumb in official Washington is never say or do anything you would not want to have show up in The Washington Post. Add to that: Never don't do something that will land you in The Washington Post.
People
GAO: States missing food-stamp fraud
Though most states have the technological ability to stop food-stamp fraud, they aren't tapping it, the report found
Digital Government