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The latest development in the information policy world derives from language tacked onto the fiscal 2001 Treasury appropriations bill last year.
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Public-safety workers depend on wireless devices despite their low bandwidth, spotty access and fragility.
Editorial Cartoon
For many managers, four words add up to fear: the General Accounting Office. But GAO auditors see their work as helping agencies get systems projects right.
ANOTHER VIEW
Federal acquisitions typically begin with the development of a detailed statement of work and the assumption that the tighter the specifications, the better.
EDITORIAL
Government agencies could learn a lot from L.L. Bean.
House to sweep floor with XML
The House of Representatives this week released drafts of 110 Extensible Markup Language document type definitions for all its legislative activities. The DTDs are in the public domain and cover categories ranging from bills and resolutions to deletions and anomalous document structures.
INTERVIEW: Doug Walker, WRQ's chief bicyling commuter
Doug Walker is the Walker in Walker, Richer and Quinn Inc. of Seattle, now known as WRQ. As a co-founder and now chairman and chief executive officer, Walker has headed the privately held software company for 20 years.
CIO Council puts $1.2m toward portals
The Chief Information Officers Council's electronic-government committee has approved $1.2 million to fund eight cross-agency Web portals.
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.
DOD, CIA name new mapping agency director
James R. Clapper has been named the first civilian director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.
Cities by the Bay still shine, thanks to Energy Star Program
Several government agencies were among the organizations in California's Bay Area that won kudos this week from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Energy Department for saving energy by putting PC monitors into low-power modes during periods of inactivity.
Corel plans patch for Office 2002
The GCN Lab recently discovered an overlooked problem with Corel WordPerfect Office 2002. It cannot load files created in Microsoft Office XP.
VA awards services contracts for data center
The Veterans Affairs Department last week awarded a $650 million contract to Logicon Inc. and a $34.55 million contract to Research Dynamics Inc. for systems services at VA's Austin Automation Center.
Army kicks off systems enterprise-building initiative
The Army intends to centralize systems management at about two dozen major commands under the service's chief information officer, to designate a single authority to manage information dissemination and to set up accounts for all Army personnel on the agency's enterprise portal'all by Oct. 1.
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.
Bush team homes in on systems oversight
As the settling-in dust begins to clear, a Bush administration strategy for overseeing the government's information technology efforts has begun to emerge.
GAO walks its own talk
When it came to upgrading its systems infrastructure, the General Accounting Office decided it needed to eat its own dog food.
GPO to retrofit archived pages
The Government Printing Office will revise 30,000 archived Web pages to comply with Section 508 accessibility standards, even though the office is exempt from the requirements.
Comptroller calls for more Web transactions
Agencies have made headway in electronic government, but they should be conducting far more transactions over the Internet, comptroller general David M. Walker said at last month's E-Gov conference in Washington.
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