Digital Government

Making taxes less taxing

President Clinton and the Internal Revenue Service are working to ease the pain of tax season.

People

The harvest of an IT career

Joe Leo's laugh fills the room as he types with two fingers to demonstrate that he knows how to use a computer.

Digital Government

'The Last Frontier' state proves challenging for census

Bucking the wind and cold, Census Bureau Director Kenneth Prewitt kicked off the Census 2000 count Wednesday in Anchorage, Alaska.

People

Reed taking up residence at EDS

Anne Reed, the first CIO at the Agriculture Department, will be joining Electronic Data Systems Corp.'s Global Government Industry Group on Feb. 1 as vice president for industry relations.

Digital Government

Clinton to offer tax break for e-filers

Next month, President Clinton will ask Congress to create a tax credit for taxpayers who file their federal income taxes electronically.

Digital Government

Technology can't solve Census' hardest problems

Census Director Kenneth Prewitt said Tuesday that technology won't help the 2000 census find those who are undercounted it will take knocking on doors and oldfashioned legwork to do the job.

Digital Government

Technology will do Census no Good

Census director Kenneth Prewitt said Tuesday that technology won't help the agency find those who are undercounted in the 2000 census and that it will take knocking on doors and old-fashioned legwork to do the job instead.

Digital Government

Archivists struggle to preserve Clinton impeachment record

One year after the impeachment trial of President Clinton, Senate historians are quietly taking oral histories of clerks, parliamentarians and other support staff who were the eyes, ears and workers at the historic event. And the biggest problem they are facing is how to preserve the words of eyewitnesses.

Digital Government

Bids Sought to Develop Medicaid Data Warehouse

The Utah Department of Health's Division of Health Care Financing is seeking bids to develop a data warehouse to manage its Medicaid program.

Digital Government

Koskinen says U.S. all clear for now; Russian scud a Y2K dud

A world that has been relatively calm during the Year 2000 rollover received minor jolt

Digital Government

World spent $200 billion on Y2K fixes, U.S. says

Governments and companies worldwide spent $200 billion to prevent a Ye

Digital Government

U.S. Y2K central reports only minor problems

Top Clinton administration officials said the first Year 2000 rollover

Digital Government

VA awards contract to DoxSys

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $4.7 million contract to Bethesda, Md.based DoxSys Inc. to provide hardware and software support services at the VA's Financial Services Center in Austin, Texas.

People

Homeland to tap agencies' IT

Homeland will build infrastructure by tapping the IT budgets of agencies folded into the department

People

Barr leaving IRS for Dell

Robert Barr, who helped fastforward the Internal Revenue Service into the Information Age, is leaving government to join Dell

Digital Government

The Mark Durocher file

The Mark Durocher file

People

DHS exorcises SPIRIT

The Homeland Security Department canceled its plans for the multibillion-dollar IT services contract because it did not fit in with the overall strategy of the agency.

Digital Government

E-gov bill offers state and local buying

E-government bill allows state and local governments to buy IT off the Federal Supply Schedules

People

DHS network may link to others

The Homeland Security Department is considering using a classified network to link state and local governments as well as federal civilian agencies.

People

Centralizing clearances

The intelligence reform bill puts all federal security clearances under one agency that would develop a national database for them.