Charge-tracking improves GSA card control
A new component of the General Services Administration's financial management system tracks how employees use government purchase cards.
NIH workers track their own hours electronically
The National Institutes of Health has taken the time, not to mention the keepers, out of timekeeping.
FAA will test smart cards
The Federal Aviation Administration will dole out more than 50,000 smart cards to employees and contract workers for a Transportation Department pilot.
Senate awards $100 million IT services contract
The Senate Sergeant of Arms recently awarded Signal Corp. a $100 million contract for systems services at all Senate offices in Washington and at 450 field offices across the country.
Procurement chief returns to FAA in systems post
Steve Zaidman, who retired last month from the Federal Aviation Administration, is back with the agency in a new role.
Bill would give agencies more hiring clout
Republican Sen. George V. Voinovich of Ohio plans to introduce work force legislation this month that will combine his Federal Human Capital Act of 2001, S 1603, with the Federal Employee Management Reform Act of 2001, S 1639, which he drew up at the request of the administration.
Off the rails
When a $7.9 million project to redesign part of New Jersey's tax systems suddenly looked like it would cost $21.8 million, Wendy Rayner knew she had a crisis on her hands.
A crisis in slow motion
About a year and a half ago, Labor Department deputy CIO Laura Callahan had the chance to practice what she's preached for most of her IT management career: Turnover is not always a bad thing.
Bad report
A bad report from an auditor can do more than ruin you day. In an extreme case, it can threaten a cherished program or project that has absorbed a lot of time, effort and funds.
The week's top stories for May 20 through May 24
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Entry detected
The attack could begin not with a bang but a whimsy: a simple 'hi' in an e-mail message or, in a famous come-on, 'ILOVEYOU.'
A support team's extreme test
At 6 a.m. on Sept. 12, Neal Shelley walked back into the Army's Information Management Support Center at the Pentagon to survey the damage and try to absorb the loss from the day before.
When a crisis blows in, cool heads will prevail
Neal Shelley stopped in to see his boss, Michael Selves, at the Army's Information Management Support Center at the Pentagon for one of their regular morning meetings. It was about 8:30 a.m. that fateful Sept. 11. A little more than an hour later, after Shelley had returned to his office on the other side of the building, disaster struck.
OMB Web site will post inventoried agency architectures
The Office of Management and Budget is developing a Web site to make agencies' plans for system architectures accessible to government officials and vendors. Norman Lorentz, OMB's chief technology officer, said yesterday the Enterprise Architecture Management System should be online by the end of June.
Army, NIMA execs get 'WIT' the program
The Army's Miriam F. Browning and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's Joan R. Vallancewhitacre received top government honors this month for their contributions to computing from the Women in Technology organization.
People on the Move
<b>Lee Harvey</b>, program director for the Army's eArmyU, has won the Association for Federal IRM's May 2002 Leadership Award for his management of the virtual university program.
State seeks to cut duplicate Web links
In the wake of an inspector general report criticizing duplicate Internet connections at overseas posts, the State Department plans to consolidate Net services.
DISA licenses firewalls for PCs and Palm units
The Defense Information Systems Agency has licensed Symantec Desktop Firewall 2.0 for 2 million Defense Department computers, plus Norton AntiVirus 2002 for Palm OS handheld devices.
IG says system for tracking foreign students not effective
The Immigration and Naturalization Service's new student tracking system likely will have minimal impact in solving the problem of tracking foreign students in the United States, the Justice Department's inspector general says.
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