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Moving IRS into the future
Bert Concklin likes to visit towns that are frozen in time. Places such as Savannah, Ga., New Hope, Pa., and Old Town Alexandria in Virginia. And he likes to collect antique toys and trains of a bygone era.
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Agencies rally behind DOT system
The Transportation Department's plan to outsource a Web-based travel and expense system is gaining supporters.
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Making expert decisions
Anyone who has ever moved from one home to another or had to change office locations knows it is not exactly a pleasant experience.
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Software that filters
W. Quinn Associates Inc. sells software that monitors downloads to the server, blocks offensive or restricted files specified by an administrator, and compiles reports on the kinds of files that are downloaded and from which workstations.
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GSA CIO leaving
Bill Piatt will leave later this month to lead egovernment strategy operations at BoozAllen
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EEOC checklist
The following are examples of job discrimination topics that a proposed list of 200 questions would encompass as part of a database that would track complaints in the federal government.
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Streamlining complaints
Pity the federal worker who files a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. With any luck, it will take four years or more to get a ruling on the case.
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The IRS wants its due
Under an Internal Revenue Service collection program that got under way last month, certain individuals and businesses with unpaid tax bills may be subject to a continual 15 percent levy on money due them from the federal government.
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Surfing Web sites for fed workers
Today's federal employees are faced with a daunting challenge: keeping up with the latest changes that affect their job, pay, family, health and future. This is further complicated, and also aided, by the increasing number of Web sites geared toward the federal worker. The question is: What's out there and where should you go?
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Surveying the center
ACS Government Solutions Group conducted a survey this summer at Goddard Space Flight Center to find out what employees thought of the service on nine e-mail servers.
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Rethinking the human factor
NSF project to develop systems that put people at ease with working together online
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Global governments shape e-economy
A report from an international policy and technology consulting firm looked at foreign nations' 'ereadiness' five strengths needed for an economy to function in an IT world
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The necessity of networking
One of the most valuable aspects of the Year 2000 solution was the networking. At every level of society, people got together, physically and online, to talk about what they were doing to prepare for the date change and the dreaded Year 2000 bug. Like the bug, networking cut across boundaries, drawing people from every kind of organization.
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Eyeing a solution
Educators have a ninepoint cooperative plan among government, industry and academia to address the demand for information assurance professionals
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Deputy CIO with just one hat
Under a restructuring plan that heavily boosts its clout, the chief information office within the Air Force will add a senior position whose authority will include overseeing the service's multibilliondollar information technology budget and systems.
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