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Text of Adm. Jay Johnson's message to all Navy commands about the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet
Text of Adm. Jay Johnson's message to all Navy commands about the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet.
People
Savings plan needs options
Congress is contemplating muchneeded changes to the government's voluntary 401(k)type program, the Thrift Savings Plan, which places too many restrictions on its clients.
People
Being a performance manager
Recently I taught in an executive education program that the Kennedy School conducted for senior General Accounting Office managers. My topic was performance measurement, especially the kind envisioned by the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), the 1993 legislation designed to move agencies to use performance measurement to improve overall government performance.
Acquisition
Sprint lands Federal Reserve network upgrade deal
The Federal Reserve has selected telecommunications provider Sprint to modernize the network that connects major banks to the agency, linking trillions of dollars in monetary transactions each year.
Digital Government
Guarding privacy
Americans' privacy fears have always been focused first and foremost on government intrusions. The Founding Fathers tried to allay these fears in the Fourth Amendment; Congress passed laws, including the Privacy Act of 1974 and the wiretap law; and court decisions also have tried to protect privacy.
Digital Government
North Dakota students to go online to discuss governor's speech
North Dakota Gov. Ed Schafer is asking high school students to react to his upcoming State of the State address through a special e-mail account. He'll visit classrooms that offer the best ideas for North Dakota's future.
Digital Government
Full citations for the cases discussed in "The scope of a contract"
Full citations for the cases discussed in The scope of a contract
People
Exec exodus
Less than two weeks into the new year, more senior government technology chiefs joined the ranks of those quitting government for work in the private sector. And circumstances virtually assure that this trickle of departures will swell into a steady stream.
People
Fair or foul?
Federal employees declared victory in 1997 after skillful lobbying defeated the Freedom from Government Competition Act, which many of the government's 1.8 million civilian employees feared would send the bulk of federal jobs to the private sector.
Digital Government
Mandate for IT training
President Clinton's plan to help protect the national computer network from attack focuses rightly on the key means of defense: the creation of the Federal Cyber Services, a corps of highly skilled and mostly youthful workers trained in the technology, management and policies of information assurance.
Acquisition
Serving up higher IT sales
First listed on the schedule just two years ago, information technology services have become a powerful engine driving the growth of the General Services Administration IT schedule.
Acquisition
NIH awards ACES task order for digital grant system
The National Institutes of Health this week awarded the first task order under the General Services Administration's Access Certificates for Electronic Services digital signature contract for an online grant application system.
Digital Government
Tivoli takes over IBM's info security products
Tivoli Systems Inc., a subsidiary of IBM Corp., this week at the RSA Data Security Conference announced the creation of a new division that will control and develop all of IBM's information security products and services.
Digital Government
Ohio Gov. Announces Creation of E-Commerce Council
Ohio Gov. Bob Taft announced Wednesday the creation of a Governor's Council on Electronic Commerce to provide leadership for establishing e-commerce throughout state government.
Digital Government
Microsoft, Intel Donation to Help Train 400,000 Teachers
Microsoft Corp. announced Thursday that it will donate $344 million in software to Intel Corp.'s Teach to the Future program, which is designed to train more than 400,000 classroom teachers to use technology to improve teaching and learning.
Digital Government
SSA launches public-key infrastructure pilot
The Social Security Administration this week selected Digital Signature Trust Co. to design and manage a digital signature pilot project aimed at testing ways for employers to file wage reports online.
Acquisition
Survivor benefits: Do you have enough coverage?
Broaching the subject of personal finances can be a delicate task, but there is no time like the present to make sure your family is appropriately covered after your death.
Digital Government
Y2K global glitch list complete
The International Y2K Cooperation Center will release Monday a global scorecard on what it terms the minor impact of bad year 2000 date code had on computer systems worldwide.
Acquisition
NASA issues ultimatum to software vendor
Tivoli Systems Inc., a subsidiary of IBM Corp., this week at the RSA Data Security Conference announced the creation of a new division that will control and develop all of IBM's information security products and services.
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