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ACT awards
Kevin Carroll, the Army's program executive officer in the Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems, won this year's Janice K. Mendenhall Spirit of Leadership award.
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Air Force picks mission planning vendors
The Air Force has selected five companies to compete for mission planning contracts.
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Two superpowers grapple with IT issues
CIOs in Japan and U.S. deal with access, info-sharing and training issues
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Army gets new materiel chief
The Army's top programs official became the service's top materiel commander.
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Kelman: Procurement ? a quiet crisis
Strain on the workforce increases the chances of contracting errors.
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DHS lays out five for '05
The Homeland Security Department has a quintet of priorities for 2005.
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OMB releases much-anticipated data model
The Interior Department’s Recreation One-Stop e-government project hit a wall: Federal and state government partners working on the project could not agree on what data to include and share for making reservations at state and national parks.
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Ill. homeland security group includes local execs
The Elected Officials Working Group for Homeland Security will serve as the primary link between the officials on the Illinois Terrorism Task Force and cities and towns.
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USDA awards animal tracking contract
SI International will build an online system to track and imported live animals and animal products.
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CIO Council group lists ways to improve e-records management
OMB and NARA need to improve accountability and managerial support, and create an advisory board to enhance management of e=-ecords, a report said.
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Energy lab readies for Solaris 10
A global collaboration grid at an Energy Department laboratory will lean on hardware from Sun Microsystems Inc. and the company’s new Solaris 10 operating system to allow data sharing across multiple levels of security and confidentiality.
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CIO wants to move TSA beyond start-up mode
David Zeppieri, the Transportation Security Administration's new chief information officer, is a man of transition.
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Some e-voting problems seen
New electronic voting machines appear to operate smoothly with the exception of a few glitches.
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NARA proposes mail discards
Records officials want to let agencies delete routine e-mail messages without requiring permanent copies.
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E-voting smooth in Md.
Officials say except for a few hiccups, electronic voting machines seem to be working well in Maryland.
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Standardizing terror data
Officials to assign stewardship over a core set of Extensible Markup Language standards.
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Navy details ForceNet future
The Navy will publish IT standards, processes and capabilities for command and control.
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Electronic voting: A winner or a loser? Still too close to call
Early balloting on electronic-voting machines appears to be going smoothly despite widespread concerns about security and accountability.<@SM>
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Dems accuse Bush of politicizing audits
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) says President Bush keeps picking inspectors general with political backgrounds.
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