Will some feds take their work home for good?
The General Services Administration is packaging a number of contracts to help agencies implement telecommuting programs.
Deadline passes to comment on FAR's accessibility clause
As agencies scurry to meet the June deadline to make their systems compliant with Section 508, the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council is trying to finalize an accessibility language clause for the FAR.
IRS gets new CIO from Time Warner
The IRS has tapped John Reece as its chief information officer and the deputy commissioner for modernization, a new post.
Talking IT at FOSE
James Taylor, director of Commerce's Office of Financial Management; Jerry Williams, federal Financial Systems bureau chief for OMB; Preston Rich, executive director of the CFO Council's FinanceNet; and Peg Hosky of FOSE, left to right, chat at the FOSE Executive Dinner at the Washington Post.
PACKET RAT
'Do you do computer stuff?' The Rat turned and looked up from his conference program. The Rat'with his 2-month-old daughter ensconced beside him hacking into the ROM code of an old Speak 'N Spell he had brought along for her enjoyment'had just settled into his seat for a FOSE 2001 keynote speech.
FIND A WORD
HELP!
DID YOU HEAR
Trademark-challenged. 'Is the FBI aware that the name it chose to replace Carnivore is a registered trademark?' writes an alert GCN reader.
NIPC gets a new director
Ronald Dick has been appointed director of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (<a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol20_no7/news/3923-1.html">see story, Page 17</a>).
FCC wants to clear the air in 800-MHz band
The Federal Communications Commission has issued a best practices guide for handling the growing interference problems in the 800-MHz band shared by public-safety agencies and commercial mobile radio services.
USDA tackles foot-and-mouth disease online
The Agriculture Department last month made fast-spreading foot-and-mouth disease the focus of its home page, at <a href="http://www.usda.gov">www.usda.gov</a>.
Cybervoting virtually here, NSF says
An Internet voting system based at polling sites could be fielded within the next several election cycles, according to a study sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
Micron exec downplays pending sale
Last month's announcement of the pending sale of Micron Government Computer Systems Inc. will not affect any government PC contracts or service arrangements, said Harry B. Heisler, the company's general manager.
NIH projects are intended to cut paperwork
To reduce grant application paperwork, the National Institutes of Health has begun two digital signature pilots.
IRS now takes e-mail requests for extensions
The IRS will let taxpayers use the Internet, telephone or paper forms to extend their 2000 income tax filing deadline by four months.
IRS accounting project is on track, GAO says
The IRS has justified its plan to invest in the Custodial Accounting Project, the General Accounting Office said.
Agency offloads financial systems to ASP
The Minerals Management Service has begun the final push to offload its financial programming to an applications service provider by the fall.
Software targets e-delivery of grant services
A law that takes effect this May has spurred two companies to introduce software for electronic processing of grant applications.
@INFO.POLICY
In December, the Health and Human Services Department under President Clinton issued a final privacy rule on use of health records. The rule, authorized by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, had a long and tortured history and'I confidently predict'will have a long and tortured future as well.
CTOs are the tech folks behind CIOs
The government has far fewer chief technology officers than chief information officers. But CTOs bear heavier responsibility to make sure their systems advance their agencies' missions, two tech chiefs said at the recent ComNet trade show in Washington.
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