NASA leads consortium to reduce faults in software
"How often do you say something like, 'Why can't a country that put a man on the moon create a plug-and-play printer driver?'"
Design honored
The Census Bureau's National Data Processing Center in Bowie, Md., is becoming as well-known for its form as for its content.
Interior moves travel booking onto the Web
The Interior Department is implementing an online travel book service for its 48,000 travelers through a $60 million annual account the department negotiated with Omega World Travel of Fairfax, Va.
Use of online medical record data restricted
Federal workers cannot use information gleaned from electonic medical records for unrelated investigations under a presidential order issued last month.
FAR proposal backs bonuses for contract tech workers
A proposed change to the Federal Acquisition Regulation would formally endorse government incentives offered to high-tech contract workers.
Letter to GCN readers
Welcome to a new year, a new administration and a new Government Computer News. We believe you'll find GCN even more focused and relevant to your job and community.
IRS will allow taxpayers to sign with PINSs
For the first time, millions of taxpayers can file taxes electronically without submitting any paperwork'not even a signature form.
Unisys federal group's future is uncertain
Unisys Corp. is mulling the sale of its U.S. Federal Government Group in McLean, Va., as part of a corporate downsizing after lower-than-expected revenue last year.
Xerox beefs up Document Centre speed and programmable features
The latest addition to Xerox Corp.'s Document Centre line of digital copier-printers can churn out pages at a rate of up to 75 per minute.
GCN/State & Local starts millennium with a new look
You are looking at a transformed GCN/State & Local, our first major redesign.
Economic downturn imperils IT funding
As the nation's nine-year economic surge slows, it appears that state information technology managers will face tight budgets in the coming months.
COUNTY LINES
Checking e-mail is getting a lot simpler for employees of Oakland County, Mich.
CYBER EYE
The first computer security flaws revealed under the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center's new disclosure policy should start showing up very shortly.
Child Welfare
The Human Services Department in Hamilton County, Ohio, has plenty to keep it busy: tracking child abuse and neglect cases, child support and enforcement and welfare benefits. That doesn't leave employees a lot of time to learn fancy code or programming tricks.
Is high-tech election gear the answer to ballot blues?
Law ultimately determines an election's outcome, but as the 2000 presidential election demonstrated, a jurisdiction's choice of voting equipment can affect an election's results.
INTERNAUT
Instant messaging is now a staple for network managers who frequently consult colleagues down the hall or across the country. But IM conversations require an outside party to make the connection.
PC peripheral merges smart card, biometrics
A combination smart-card reader and fingerprint sensor strengthens biometric authentication in the $159 5th Sense Combo Peripheral from Veridicom Inc.
Outsourcing succeeds
Controversy has swirled around the idea of outsourcing since before Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain outsourced exploration of the Ocean Sea. The contractor certainly took risks, but nobody complained about the deliverables.
Results are in: Philly residents OK new voting system
Long before the universe of chads became a major topic of discussion, Philadelphia asked its voters in 1998 if the city needed new voting equipment.
Researcher says e-gov funding won't pick up until after
Government agencies should expect that they must increasingly depend on external service providers to offer online services, new research concludes.
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