Motivating career execs key to Labor's PMA top rating
The Labor Department's management of its executive workforce was the foundation for its success as the first agency to achieve all green ratings on the most recent President's Management Agenda scorecard.
Double-digit PCs may vanquish the digital divide
Much of the discussion in the last decade about the 'global digital divide' between the technology haves and have-nots has focused on ways to subsidize the cost of PCs for those in developing countries.
The lowdown on PCs under $1000
A desktop PC that costs under $1,000.
Does PC stand for 'pretty cheap?"
People have been predicting the PC's demise for a decade.
The lowdown on NAS
A network-attached storage server is a special-purpose device consisting of processors, hard drives and management software designed for the sole purpose of serving files over a network.
The virtues of NAS
Protecting the safety and integrity of data while guaranteeing its timely availability to users is one of the key challenges faced by government IT administrators today.
USDA's National Finance Center shuts down in face of Katrina
The Agriculture Department's National Finance Center completed payroll processing for 500,000 federal employees just hours before shutting down operations in the face of hurricane Katrina.
Report: HHS underwrites half of health IT exchanges
About one-half of all health information exchanges around the nation depend on the federal government for development funding through grants and contracts.
Labor Web site helps contracting officers with wage determinations
The Labor Department has launched a new Web site that should provide government contracting officials easier access to obtaining wage determinations.
Study says EPA needs to integrate environmental data streams
A study from the National Academy of Public Administration says Environmental Protection Agency data about the facilities it regulates is fragmented and incomplete.
IRS biz rules scrutiny nears completion
Rule engines could help bridge the worlds of business and programming
Reorganization would shake up IT
Homeland Security Department secretary Michael Chertoff's planned reorganization, aimed at aligning resources to threats, will challenge the department's technologists to reshape their systems and chains of command.
Meyerrose nominated as CIO of national intelligence office
Air Force Maj. Gen. Dale Meyerrose would be the first CIO of the newly created Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Tech-heavy Fort Monmouth slated to close after BRAC vote
The Base Realignment and Closure Commission voted last week to shut down the Army base in Fort Monmouth, N.J., which is home to many of the technical program offices that are leading Armywide transformation.
SBA: Small-business contracting reached 23 percent in fiscal 2004
The federal government met its goal of awarding 23 percent of all contracting dollars to small businesses in fiscal 2004, according to the Small Business Administration.
Air Force base operations support deal goes to CSC
Computer Sciences Corp. will provide a range of base maintenance and operations support for the 81st Training Wing at Keesler Air Force Base.
Xythos suite simplifies document sharing
Federal agencies have thousands, if not millions, of documents to manage. Without a good system in place, keeping track of them all would be impossible.
Not all portables have Intel inside
The GCN Lab tests three new notebook PCs that don't run on Intel processors.
No easy way out for Treasury in TCE decision
Agency reopens $1 billion communications contract after deciding against using GSA's vehicles.
Justice, FBI to overhaul fingerprint and case management systems
The FBI and the Justice Department, with two new acquisitions, are trying to create harmony among dissonant federal fingerprint systems and a cacophony of Justice case management systems.
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