People
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.
Digital Government
Fires reveal challenges for technology
Forest Service officials say when it comes to fighting fires the technology could be improved
People
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.
People
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.
Digital Government
The Circuit
Although 34 million Americans filed their income tax returns online this year, most of them paid a fee to do it.
Acquisition
Compaq to deliver explosive power
The Energy Department has awarded Compaq Computer Corp. a $200 million contract to build the largest supercomputer in the world
People
Lieberman a boost to IT ticket
Electronic government advocates hailed the selection of Sen. Joseph Lieberman as the Democratic vice presidential candidate as a boost for information technology issues.
Digital Government
The Circuit
Some information technology execs are grumbling about the new plan by Rep. Stephen Horn (RCalif.) to grade federal agencies on their information security programs.
People
Never too late to learn
Like most of his colleagues in government, Tony Nuriddin wanted to keep his technology skills uptodate. And the only way to do that was to go back to school.
Digital Government
Lieberman a boost to IT ticket
Electronic government advocates hail Sen. Joseph Lieberman as a Savvy choice as Al Gore's running mate
Digital Government
Census spreads word on data
Census Bureau officials are aiming to provide the public with the widest variety ever of census information through high and lowtech means
Acquisition
IRS renews Unisys pact
Unisys Corp. has received a $100 million contract renewal from the Internal Revenue Service to streamline IT services under TIPSS2
Acquisition
Census contract keeps numbers crunching
The U.S. Census Bureau has renewed a multimilliondollar contract with SAS Institute Inc. for software and services
Digital Government
Security funding foiled by politics
The Clinton administration is urgently seeking a 15 percent increase in funding for critical infrastructure protection initiatives in its fiscal 2001 budget, but its request is being blocked by electionyear politics and partisan paralysis, according to experts.
Digital Government
The circuit
Margaret Evans, the acting deputy associate director for national security at the Office of Management and Budget, leaves her job next month to join Electronic Data Systems Corp.'s federal office in Herndon, Va., where she'll handle information assurance and intelligence.
People
VA, FEMA go digital
The General Services Administration opened the doors even wider to the Electronic Age by handing out 100,000 digital certificates last week to the Department of Veterans Affairs and 10,000 to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Acquisition
Chase for NIH billions is on
The National Institutes of Health formally opened bidding this week for two major contracts with values totaling billions of dollars over a decade
People