Agencies find tangible success on 508
Congressional mandates usually tell agencies to manage what Education CIO Craig Luigart calls white space'that is, business processes or issues. And that's often why agencies fail to comply with them.
Dragon slayers: How agencies have coped successfully with mandates
Don Barrett works for the Education Department, but he spends time at the Postal Service evaluating technologies to make sure they are Section 508-compliant. Barrett also is blind.
IT job fairgrounds are in cyberspace
The CIO Council and the Office of Personnel Management have set April 22 to April 26 for an IT job fair over the Web from which they expect to help agencies choose from thousands of potential employees.
ITAA lists nine ways to counter terrorism using IT
The Immigration and Naturalization Service recently sent to the Office of Homeland Security private-sector recommendations on how to conduct counterterrorism operations through the use of integrated IT.
NASA looks for a new desktop outsourcing metric
Four and a half years into desktop outsourcing, NASA has become adept at keeping tabs on contractor performance. Now the agency wants to find a way to measure how well its Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA supports the agency's mission, CIO Lee Holcomb said.
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.
Tame the Compliance Monster
Taming the compliance monster begins at the top, but it doesn't end there. Management must build momentum and sustain it at all levels of an agency.
Bush administration puts compliance on the agenda
As if agencies didn't already have a multiheaded dragon of compliance mandates breathing down their necks, the Bush administration is turning up the heat on management reform.
NIST CIO Mehuron will retire
William O. Mehuron, CIO of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and director of its IT Laboratory, will retire April 3. ITL deputy director Susan Zevin will serve as acting director of the Commerce Department laboratory until a successor is appointed, a NIST official said.
SANs get mil-spec ruggedized
Two storage area network products from Dot Hill Systems Corp. have received certification for a ruggedized military standard, Mil-Std-810F.
GSA auction site earns $17.7 million in first year
The General Services Administration's online auction site, at <a href="http://www.gsaauctions.gov">www.gsaauctions.gov</a>, has generated about $17.7 million in more than 10,000 auctions of surplus federal property in its first year.
FAA quantifies growing need for bandwidth
The Federal Aviation Administration has been loading more work onto its worldwide Agency Data Telecommunications Network 2000, because 'the world is going to Web-enabled applications,' said Clint Turnipseed, a computer specialist at FAA's Aviation Systems Standards unit in Oklahoma City.
Agencies take bitty steps toward Itanium
Despite a dearth of 64-bit applications and the abundance of cheap 32-bit servers, vendors haven't given up on finding a market for Intel Corp.'s 64-bit Itanium platform.
@Info.Policy: A mania for secrecy, or situation normal?
Does the Bush administration have a mania about secrecy?
IBM outsources PCs, thin clients
IBM Corp., inventor of the PC, will continue to develop its NetVista line and to support its PC customers, but the company has turned over its PC manufacturing to Sanmina-SCI Corp. of San Jose, Calif., under a three-year, $5 billion outsourcing agreement.
Cyber Eye: NIST opens a portal to security
There's no silver bullet for better security, but csrc.nist.gov, a one-stop online resource developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology's IT Lab, has plenty of other ammunition.
Custom Publishing
The Census Bureau's Generalized Instrument Design System is using Extensible Markup Language to speed the layout and assembly of economic census forms that will go to millions of businesses this December.
NTIS makes sci-tech resources searchable in one spot
The Commerce Department's National Technical Information Service is developing an online catalog of the leading government Web resources on science and technology. The <a href="http://www.scitechresources.gov">www.scitechresources.gov</a> site has a database of about 1,000 sites selected by NTIS staff.
Editorial Cartoon
In the e-government frenzy, remember that about half the population is not connected to the Internet.
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