Digital Government

Philly releases Wi-Fi RFP

Philadelphia issues a request for proposals for its widely reported Wi-Fi plan.

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RFI released for cross-agency security

The request for information identifies five network security areas that could benefit from a governmentwide approach.

Cybersecurity

Security forum members to meet in May

The Chief Information Security Officers Exchange has already started working to raise the federal government’s security grade.

People

Suffolk sells land records access

Up-to-date documents will be available online for about $600 a month.

People

Virtual reference desk is open

Librarians go where the public is — online.

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Angels over Los Angeles

Web-based tool will aid emergency and public safety efforts.

Digital Government

Getting down to metrics

OMB wants agencies to take architecture seriously.

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OMB unleashes architecture plan

The federal enterprise architecture’s potential remains unrealized, OMB chief architect says in a new action plan.

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Topoff 3 readies for WMD

The latest terrorism response exercise in the Top Officials series will include participants from Canada and the United Kingdom.

Acquisition

GSA releases Alliant draft

The deadline for submitting comments on the RFPs is June 3.

Modernization

Davis to Treasury: Use Networx

The chairman of the House Government Reform Committee tells John Snow that the Treasury Department should put aside Treasury Communications Enterprise.

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State bureaucracy slows grants

Hiring freezes and problems with IT upgrades also created delays in spending federal bioterrorism funds awarded to states and municipalities, GAO says.

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Center creates archiving model

The Library of Congress will distribute a toolkit to help state and territorial officials preserve digital information.

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State IT to grow, Input says

Input predicts that state and local governments will spend $70 billion annually on information technology in 2010.

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Task force scours records for fugitives

LocatePlus assembles data from disparate sources.

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Young sees more IT consolidation

Federal agencies still spend too much on back office systems, e-gov official Tim Young said.

Modernization

Controversial group: First responders need big bucks

A new advocacy group for first responders says the federal government is shortchanging them by $100 billion.

People

Selling e-gov to agencies

Common e-government solutions must be cheaper than alternatives and easy to use, says the grants.gov program manager.

People

NJ aims for voter system

Covansys will develop and implement a system that will standardize and centralize the NJ voter registration process.

People

DHS pushes tech to responders

The Homeland Security Department hopes its tech transfer program will help small communities.