People
Web portal celebrates Ben Franklin
In honor of his 300th birthday, it aggregates all of Franklin's writing, proverbs and other resources.
Modernization
Utah county makes records safer
Salt Lake County has established a state-of-the-art offsite recovery program to allow officials to access public records in the event of an emergency.
People
CIO: FBI will focus on info sharing in 2006
Sentinel is the center of attention among the bureau's IT projects.
People
Searching cyberspace for history
Historians and the National Archives and Records Administration are collaborating to monitor auction house Web sites to find missing and stolen government records.
People
Hite says lack of EA no barrier to Sentinel
GAO's Randy Hite said the FBI should proceed with building its data management system even though its new enterprise architecture is not complete.
People
GAO: Tech can reduce immigrant benefits backlog
A new report states that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services must create a system that tracks applications.
Cybersecurity
Bush order surprises watchdog group
Open government advocates say the president's executive order fails to address the cause of problems in accessing government information.
People
Petitioners want Katrina contracts online
Open-government proponents say they hope to prevent misuse of taxpayer dollars by disclosing how officials spend public money.
People
CHCS II's global launch set
A DOD official will give details about the Composite Health Care System II's deployment at a press briefing Nov. 21.
People
British Library, Microsoft to digitize 25 million pages
The plan is to digitize roughly 100,000 out-of-copyright books, which will be available through the new MSN Book Search beta service next year.
People
GAO gives e-Rulemaking team an 'attaboy'
Federal officials in charge of the e-government initiative followed many best practices for managing projects.
People
ACS wins state Medicaid work
New Mexico pact could total $82.5 million for integrator and is just the latest deal in a customer relationship dating to 1994.
Modernization
MetaCarta enters civilian government market
The Environmental Protection Agency is MetaCarta's first government customer outside of defense, intelligence and homeland security agencies.
People
GPO forms new digital director position
The agency charged with distributing government publications has created a new executive-level position to lead its transition into the Digital Age.
People
NARA selects Lockheed for its e-records program
Lockheed beat out Harris for the $308 million contract to create an electronic records archive.
People
USDA keeps paychecks coming, despite Katrina
The Agriculture Department's finance center in New Orleans completed the payroll for nearly 500,000 federal workers before the hurricane hit.
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