SBA opens Office XP for business
The Small Business Administration this summer will give all its users Microsoft XP applications.
Voinovich bill would create a post to manage work force shrinkage
Congress may consider a bill that would call for federal agencies to appoint a chief human capital officer to address the problems of a dwindling federal IT work force.
4 million at DOD to use biometrics
Within two years, all Defense Department workers will enter their facilities via fingerprint or iris authentication.
Navy uses smart cards to speed travel process
The Navy is the first department in the Defense Department to use Common Access smart cards for the Defense Travel System.
GSA Team prepares to test authentication gateway
The General Services Administration is building a prototype gateway to authenticate transactions for agencies' e-government programs.
Beyond 508
Agency managers have found bonus capabilities in the compliance software they bought last year to meet Section 508 accessibility deadlines. Several related their experiences this month at the opening of the General Services Administration's Assistive Technology Showcase.
Navy first to use e-signatures on smart cards for travel
The Navy is the first department in the Defense Department to use Common Access smart cards for the Defense Travel System.
PKI team tries to lead by example on new pilot
In its latest effort to jump-start public-key infrastructure use within government, the Federal PKI Steering Committee will put its money where its mouth is and use an e-signature application for its own pilot.
Uneven broadband traffic jams telework progress, GSA says
The General Services Administration this month will tell Congress that telework programs cannot succeed without a more equitable bandwidth distribution.
Forman downplays IT work force crisis
Among the many IT concerns within the federal government, a shortage of workers is not a barrier to the administration's e-government plans, IT czar Mark Forman said last week.
GSA opens 508 IT center
To encourage agencies to comply with Section 508, the General Services Administration opened its Assistive Technology Showcase yesterday at its Washington headquarters.
Agencies don't buy biometrics yet
Although biometric products are hot in the marketplace, agencies are waiting for them to mature, said Judith Spencer, who chairs the General Services Administration's Public-key Infrastructure Steering Committee.
PKI Steering Committee chooses signature app
The General Services Administration's Federal Public-key Infrastructure Steering Committee, in a significant move toward adopting a governmentwide PKI, is finalizing plans to purchase 150 licenses of an electronic-signature application.
Agencies get preview of teleworking report
While Congress and agencies await a General Services Administration teleworking report due in April, agencies got an idea of the report's contents at FOSE 2002 in Washington this week.
OPM sketches map for online personnel files
A single database ultimately will link every federal employee once the Office of Personnel Management builds a giant personnel infrastructure.
OPM maps out self-serve site
More than 50 agencies are working with the Office of Personnel Management on versions of Employee Express, online personnel applications.
Sign Language
Washington is about to become the first state in which employers can digitally sign their online wage reports to the Social Security Administration. Washington also is the first state to have its digital certificates accepted by federal agencies.
OPM will fund at least one e-gov plan on its own
The Office of Personnel Management is making an aggressive effort to find money for its five e-government initiatives approved by the Office of Management and Budget. In weekly meetings with Mark Forman, OMB's associate director for IT and e-government, OPM is refining the goals set in the individual business cases submitted in December.
Software for 508 'revolutionizes' Superfund reporting
Last May, the Environmental Protection Agency bought graphing software just in time to meet Section 508 requirements for making its systems accessible to disabled users. Less than a year later, the software has produced benefits agencywide.
Vice President unveils new FirstGov site
Users of the FirstGov.gov federal Web portal can now find what they're looking for in three clicks or less, said Mark Forman, OMB's associate director for e-government and IT.
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