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UPC tags Defense
The military has received supplies for the first time identified by a Universal Product Code.
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Immigration Service to stop using law enforcement for fingerprinting
Designated law enforcement agencies cannot meet new biometric standards.
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Policy group proposes records management portal
The project, dubbed Toolkit, may launch as early as fiscal year 2005.
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Forest Service to cut IT jobs
The agency's IT services group won a competitive sourcing deal with a plan that would cut 180 jobs.
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DARPA awards robot aircraft deal
Northrop Grumman will build three unmanned aircraft for the Air Force and Navy.
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Bourgeois to lead National Business Center
He will leave his post as CIO for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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Florida record keepers turn to Web for recovery info
Florida officials are using the Web to get info to libraries and archives dealing with soaked collections following Hurricane Charley.
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Perot to manage FDIC system
The $4 million contract involves the FDIC's Legal Information Management System.
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Donations sought for retired feds hit by Charley
The National Association of Retired Federal Employees and Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund are seeking donations for a disaster relief fund to assist retired federal employees affected by Hurricane Charley.
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HHS spends $228M on IT programs
But the majority of it is for health IT programmatic activities and grant programs, Government Accountability Office officials say.
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GAO finds that some protective laws hinder e-health adoption
Efforts by health care providers to implement IT systems can be hampered by laws preventing fraud and abuse, GAO says.
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Turner lambastes US-VISIT
The ranking Democrat on the House Select Committee on Homeland Security says US-VISIT lacks interoperability and relies on antiquated infrastructure.
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Interior CIO outlines IT transformation
The department is streamlining the IT and networking infrastructure, Interior CIO W. Hord Tipton says.
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GAO finds holes in DHS architecture
Version 1.0 of DHS' enterprise architecture lacks sufficient 'breadth and depth,' GAO says.
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Welles: Safety in uncertain times
Call it the American spirit of defiance or wishful thinking about telework, but many federal employees feel prepared for terrorism threats.
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Board: IRS still on hot seat
Officials on the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board, who are strong proponents of the agency's attempt to modernize its Kennedy-era tax-processing technology, have also become some of its loudest critics.
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California must fix management and money
Follow-through on findings needs to go deeper than budget, experts say
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