FBI adds to its site
The FBI has added two pages to its Web site to increase news content.
Group eyes Web accessibility by voice commands
The government's interagency XML Working Group is looking at using of the Voice Extensible Markup Language protocol to make existing Hypertext Markup Language information on Web sites accessible to disabled and other users by telephone.
OMB's Forman says go with best practices
It's too early to tell whether President Bush's proposal to spend $45 billion on information technology next year will be enough, a top administration executive said this month.
Sandia's Cplant is the big code on campus
Sandia National Laboratories has logged more than 800 downloads of its open-source software for building Linux clusters since the code was released last month.
AFCEA gets scholarship aid
The Government Markets Group, a unit of Global Crossing Ltd. of Hamilton, Bermuda, donated $25,000 last month to the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association to go toward scholarships and funding AFCEA memberships for active-duty personnel.
Here's who are calling the IT shots
It's been six months and a couple of days since the Bush administration moved into the White House, prompting the usual shake-up in agency leadership that comes with a changing of the guard.
People on the Move
The National Security Agency has named Richard G. Turner as its new chief information officer.
FEDERAL CONTRACT LAW
Unless you've been under a rock, you know the new accessibility rules for information technology became effective on June 21. They impose new and explicit requirements for federal IT, with the aim of making it more accessible for disabled federal employees.
FAA builds on early Free Flight success
The Federal Aviation Administration has been criticized for years for failure to deploy technology effectively to solve air traffic congestion, develop accurate arrival sequence plans and maximize runway use.
Panel paints the future of e-gov
JULY 20—Government officials and the public still consider electronic government a technology issue rather than a mainstream issue and therefore might not fully support it, a speaker yesterday told the Council for Excellence in Government.
Michigan unveils user-centric Web portal
JULY 20—Michigan has launched a new Web portal at <a href="http://www.michigan.gov"> www.michigan.gov</a> that targets visitors' own interests rather than making them click through individual agency pages.
Michigan unveils user-centric Web portal
JULY 20'Michigan has launched a new Web portal at <a href=http://www.michigan.gov> www.michigan.gov</a> that targets visitors' own interests rather than making them click through individual agency pages.
You CAN take it with you'your desktop data, that is
Office moves are a fact of life every three or four years for many government workers. Your data is something you can't trust to the movers, whether it's going to another floor or another state.
Gigabit Ethernet migrates to LANs
Is there a Gigabit Ethernet LAN in your future? If you go by the numbers, there probably is.
Smart cards wave Orlando residents through toll barriers
JULY 19'Orlando, Fla., residents soon will use smart cards to pay tolls, bus fares and parking meter fees with a wave of the hand.
Lockheed Martin's state and local group sold for $825 million
JULY 19'Affiliated Computer Services Inc. today announced plans to buy Lockheed Martin IMS, the state and local unit of Lockheed Martin Corp., for $825 million in cash.
ATM, Sonet are giving way to IP
JULY 19—The rise of high-speed public IP networking is making agencies' enterprise infrastructures more like those of Internet service providers, the Burton Group said yesterday.
Data warehousing: Putting information to work
The clamor for governments to provide better services to businesses and citizens is proving a boon to data warehousing and business intelligence suppliers that help agencies obtain valuable data and boost efficiency.
HHS will post financial data online
The Health and Human Services Department will put one of its management information systems on the Web next year, after three years of work on the project.
FBI reports weapons, 184 notebooks missing
JULY 18—Attorney General John Ashcroft has ordered a departmentwide review to account for Justice Department equipment after the FBI reported hundreds of weapons and notebook PCs missing or stolen over the last decade.
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