Telework gets new support
Marjorie Adams, a full-time program manager at the Agriculture Department, works 40 hours a week but battles suburban traffic only three days.
Forman aims to consolidate systems
Mark Forman, associate director of the Office of Management and Budget for IT and electronic government, has a plan for unifying government systems but no budget yet.
IT companies pitch in with relief efforts
Last month, technology vendors joined the front lines of disaster relief, giving away products and services to agencies and organizations responding to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Crisis proves a need for disaster planning
'Everybody just took off.' David Reiss, an information specialist in the Treasury Department's Office of Financial Systems Integration, said he could only grab his briefcase before fleeing headquarters on the morning of Sept. 11.
FedWeb 2001: Slow progress toward citizen-oriented sites
Citizen-centric Web design is coming along slowly at best, some speakers said at yesterday's FedWeb 2001 conference at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
CD library sorts evidence
Mark Weil's fingers have been ink-smeared for nearly four years from sorting through case files on everything from child exploitation and prostitution to computer security and e-mail threats.
Agencies move to boost defenses
Lothar Harris was in his office in Arlington, Va., across Route 1 from the Pentagon, when disaster struck.
Back-end plan boosts State Web site
Soon after the change of administrations in January, the State Department changed its Web site. Now it is improving the way information gets onto the site.
Officials debate talent shortage
Kay Cole James, director of the Office of Personnel Management, told federal human resource managers last week that they must strengthen the federal work force by following the president's lead.
Look, No Paper
Capt. Kurt R. Huff, deputy commander of contracts for the Naval Sea Systems Command, has been looking for a more efficient procurement process as long as he can remember.
Critical infrastructure takes concerted hits
Within three hours this morning, a concentrated attack on the nation's critical infrastructure crippled cities, communications, airports and highways, shutting down federal agencies in Washington.
VA hospitals test single sign-ons
Veterans Affairs hospitals in Oakland, Calif., Seattle and Silver Spring, Md., are testing the National Institute of Standards and Technology's new Enterprise Single Sign-on Facility software and plan to deploy it to all 170 VA hospitals by month's end.
OMB: Impetus is on agencies to fund e-gov efforts
Facing a budget surplus of $158 billion for fiscal 2001, the Bush administration plans to dole out some funds for electronic-government programs.
Is the FirstGov playing field level?
The General Services Administration's acceptance of the FirstGov search engine as a gift from philanthropist Eric Brewer 'shelters all the information from current law.' Or so says David LeDuc, manager of public policy at the Software and Information Industry Association of Washington.
Digital-signature app lets DOD users work their way up to PKI
For David White, electronic-signature capability is sometimes a matter of life or death. For Carl Saenz, it's a matter of convenience.
Model Builder
To show the Office of Management and Budget what they're doing and how much it costs taxpayers, several agencies use a PC suite that pulls together their business processes into a model of their enterprise architectures.
State will unveil upgraded Web site next month
The State Department will give Web site users a new look by the end of next month, as it moves into the last phase of one of its largest Web development projects ever.
CIO Council to begin mentoring program
The administration is continuing its quest to find solutions to the federal information technology work force crisis.
Treasury's FMS cashes in on Pay.gov portal
In less than a year since launching its Pay.gov portal, the Treasury Department's Financial Management Service has collected $1 billion in fees, fines, leases, taxes and other electronic payments from citizens and businesses through the site.
Navy automates procurement for contracts, goods
The Naval Sea Systems Command has found a way to reach its goal of reducing its procurement cycle to less than five days.
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