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GPO's newest job: A digital czar
GPO announced that it promoted Thomas "T.C." Evans, deputy superintendent of documents, to the new position of assistant chief of staff for strategic initiatives.
People
Gingrich: 'Paper kills,' electronic medical records save lives
Katrina has shown beyond doubt the necessity of moving to electronic records, policy figures argue.
People
NOAA revisits tsunami preparedness
In Katrina's aftermath, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is wrestling with thin preparedness for a potentially deadlier disaster -- a tsunami.
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.
Digital Government
NARA taps Lockheed for electronic archive
Failure to develop ERA system is not an option, archivist says
Modernization
Mitre: FAA telecom overhaul could face cost overruns
A report urges the agency to get the project back on track before existing contracts expire.
Digital Government
Forecasting Katrina
Scientists use a slew of technologies to predict impact of hurricanes
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NARA selects Lockheed for its e-records program
Lockheed beat out Harris for the $308 million contract to create an electronic records archive.
People
Katrina knocked out real-time weather
The Internet weather service WeatherBug reported that 50 percent of its weather instrument stations were not functioning.
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Makeshift control towers guide rescue planes
The FAA used its ingenuity to create control towers that allowed thousands of planes to land in hurricane-devastated areas.
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IT helps limit flight delays
FAA officials say they had appropriate communication capacity to reroute air traffic last week and are prepared for this week’s challenges.
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NOAA supercomputer predicted hit, underestimated force
Supercomputers helped the agency accurately predict where Hurricane Katrina would hit, but they missed predictions about its intensity.
Cybersecurity
GAO: Federal data mining not obeying privacy rules
Federal agencies are not adequately protecting citizens’ privacy when they query databases containing personal information, congressional auditors say.
Cybersecurity
NSF announces program to create a new Internet
National Science Foundation officials said they envision the creation of more secure network architectures.
People
EPA data littered with errors and gaps
A new report calls for a single, centralized data system after finding that EPA data is full of errors.
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