Air traffic trainees hear new voices
Air Force trainees are learning air traffic control maneuvers with the help of software that listens to their instructions and responds like a human pilot.
Committee will push for fielding new IT faster
The new chairman of the House Armed Services Committee has vowed to boost the speed of bringing new technologies to warfighters.
Mobile computer looks out for the sight-impaired
The new PAC Mate mobile computer for visually impaired workers is the first to run standard Microsoft Windows applications.
Web pros give tips for smooth look and feel
Consistency on an agency Web site requires top-level backing, strict deadlines and detailed templates, said three feds who enforce such rules, speaking at the FedWeb fall conference in Arlington, Va.
@Info.Policy: Total Info project is totally doomed
By now, you probably know something about the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness program. That's the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's data mining project headed by the infamous John Poindexter of Iran-contra fame.
Bat and pigeon teach NASA visitors
'Even adults don't understand satellite imagery,' said Ginger Butcher, a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center education specialist who's trying to change that with two award-winning, interactive multimedia Web sites.
GSA to run three big federal councils
The General Services Administration 2004 budget request includes money needed to operate three major government IT and management councils.<br>
Cyber Eye: Cyberterror is still a long way from reality
The specter of cyberterror has become a driving force in the IT security debate.
Photo album
In California, the Bureau of Land Management tends 15 million acres of national monuments, recreational sites and conservation areas, as well as photographs of them.
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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
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.
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
<b>Trilogy</b>. This agencywide program to deploy 21,000 desktop systems for use by agents is intended to replace the antiquated Automated Case Management System with a Virtual Case File system. The new system will help agents collaborate with each other by capturing all data about a specific case for mutual use. It will also create an audit trail to record each instance in which a case file is accessed or changed. The $379 million program will provide multimedia case information to FBI agents via high-speed links.
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.
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.
Energy picks off-the-shelf business apps
The Energy Department is planning to construct an integrated business system from off-the-shelf Web applications.
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.
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.
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.<br>
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