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
GPO awaits Web-harvesting technology
Agency seeks technology that can query specific classes of information.
Digital Government
Congress agrees to boost NSF funding
Lawmakers agree to raise funding for the National Science Foundation by 3 percent in fiscal 2006.
Modernization
FAA telecom overhaul knocks out radar
A radar outage occurred this week at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago because the FAA was transitioning to a new telecom provider.
People
Medical publishers still battling NIH
NIH says links to publishers' sites would not help NIH achieve its goal of creating a permanent, integrated research archive.
People
FDA to list approved products in online archive
The Food and Drug Administration is demanding that manufacturers submit information printed on prescription drug labels in a new electronic format.
People
Auditors again deride NASA financial system, EA
NASA risks inaccurate accounting of its most expensive space missions because the agency is still struggling to build a modern financial management system.
Digital Government
Ready, set, declassify
DOD, Justice struggle to review documents slated for declassification
Modernization
Blue Gene computer grows up and goes off to work
The world's fastest supercomputer -- located at the Lawrence Livermore National laboratory -- just got faster.
Modernization
IRS torn between e-enforcement and e-filing
IRS officials say they are caught between devoting technology resources to booking tax evaders and helping taxpayers file electronically.
Digital Government
NASA taps Northrop Grumman for supercomputing software
The company will provide software for a new Software Integration and Visualization Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Cybersecurity
Appeals court shelves shutdown of Interior computers
An injunction, issued Oct. 20, blocked the use of any systems with access to Indian trust fund data.
Digital Government
USGS A-76 competition suspended
The director of the U.S. Geological Survey suspended plans to outsource or eliminate most of its major mapping technology operations.
Cybersecurity
Judge orders Interior IT system shutdown
In a network security tug of war, a judge reclaims ground on a nine-year Indian trust fund lawsuit.
People
Weapons agency finds answers with topic maps
Energy Department officials have discovered that topic maps can be useful in managing the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
Modernization
Outdated tech delays GPO contract award
Government Printing Office delayed a technology procurement because technologies submitted are already outdated.
People
Rescuing missed information
Cutting-edge commercial wares give agencies a whole new outlook on searching for information
Modernization
Power search
Could search commercial technology replace some information management standards?
People
Mapping technology threatens USGS jobs
Fewer mapmakers needed as agency prepares a competitive sourcing bid
Modernization