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By Michael J. Bechetti, GCN
February 4, 2003

Significa

How's your health? The National Center for Health Statistics, thinking citizens would want to know, has spent three years building an online database of public health indicators, under the rubric of the Healthy People 2010 project.

By Wilson P. Dizard III, GCN
February 4, 2003

Another View: More than ever, Web site usability is king

The world has endured many failures to communicate, from Paul Newman's in the 1967 movie 'Cool Hand Luke' to Dilbert's everyday office adventures with his pointy-haired boss. Web site usability is often misunderstood. Yet it is getting even more important than just two years ago, now that the e-government drive has gathered massive momentum.

By Gabe Goldberg, GCN
February 4, 2003

FBI pins down records management

In response to criticism of the FBI's management of evidence, the bureau has launched a massive records management project to overhaul the way millions of paper records are handled at headquarters, at 56 field offices, and by legal attaches around the world.

By Wilson P. Dizard III, GCN
February 4, 2003

E-gov skills start with cooperation

When Jim Van Wert saw the opportunity to work on an e-government project, he jumped at it. As the Small Business Administration's acting ombudsman, he represented the agency during the Office of Management and Budget's development of the Quicksilver program. And when SBA and OMB sought a project leader for the Business Compliance One-Stop initiative, Van Wert couldn't resist.

By Jason Miller, GCN
February 4, 2003

Energy picks off-the-shelf business apps

The Energy Department is planning to construct an integrated business system from off-the-shelf Web applications.

By Patricia Daukantas, GCN
February 4, 2003

IG: FAA mismanaged weather system

The Federal Aviation Administration has been its own worst enemy on the Integrated Terminal Weather System program, according to the Transportation Department's inspector general.

By Dipka Bhambhani and Patricia Daukantas, GCN
February 4, 2003

E-filers get a price break

The IRS last month launched Free File at IRS.gov, offering free online tax return filing to an estimated 78 million Americans, about 60 percent of taxpayers.

By Dipka Bhambhani and Jason Miller, GCN
February 4, 2003

IT takes biggest piece of NSF budget

Information technology takes up the largest share of all research to be funded by the National Science Foundation in its proposed 2004 budget of $5.5 billion.

By Joab Jackson, GCN
February 4, 2003

Homeland request marbled with IT spending

The Homeland Security Department's fiscal 2004 budget proposal contains IT spending increases for projects begun at its component agencies salted throughout the $36.2 billion spending request.

By Wilson P. Dizard III, GCN
February 4, 2003

NIMA seeks name change that fits its expanded role

What's in a name? A lot, says the director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, who is asking the White House to consider renaming it the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

By Dawn S. Onley, GCN
February 4, 2003

Enterprise architecture performance assessed

Agencies are making progress in implementing enterprise architectures but still have a way to go, according to the fiscal 2004 budget proposal released today by the Office of Management and Budget.

By Patricia Daukantas, GCN
February 3, 2003

IT security spending to keep pace with budget

Money requested in the fiscal 2004 budget for IT security would increase about 10 percent to $4.7 billion, according to the Office of Management and Budget. At that figure, allocations for security would hold steady at about 8 percent of federal IT spending.

By William Jackson, GCN
February 3, 2003

NASA will create central repository of Columbia data

NASA is amassing data that will help it analyze the cause of Saturday's space shuttle disaster, senior agency officials said today.

By Wilson P. Dizard III, GCN
February 3, 2003

GSA taps 17 for Connections contracts

The General Services Administration last week awarded contracts to 17 companies through its Connections program to provide telecommunications equipment and support services to federal agencies.

By Patience Wait, GCN
February 3, 2003

FAR councils propose change to contract-bundling rule

The Federal Acquisition Regulation councils on Friday issued a proposed rule to curtail the bundling of contracts by agencies.

By Gail Repsher Emery, GCN
February 3, 2003

Air Force comm deal will support Enduring Freedom

As the Air Force sets up makeshift bases across the deserts of Southwest Asia, an IT company from Doylestown, Pa., has signed on to supply the service with communications support.

By Dawn S. Onley, GCN
February 3, 2003

'Ratty' data from Columbia during final moments key in probe, NASA says

Fragmentary telemetry data sent from the space shuttle Columbia to ground-based NASA systems could be critical in reconstructing the doomed vehicle's status in its final seconds of flight, program director Ron Dittemore said yesterday.

By Wilson P. Dizard III, GCN
February 3, 2003

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Editorial Cartoon

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Significa

How's your health? The National Center for Health Statistics, thinking citizens would want to know, has spent three years building an online database of public health indicators, under the rubric of the Healthy People 2010 project.

Another View: More than ever, Web site usability is king

Ridge's challenge

The Bush administration has characteristically gagged Homeland Security Department officials except for secretary Tom Ridge'and I'll bet he clears every syllable with the White House.

Major programs within the FBI