Voinovich bill calls for human capital chiefs
Sen. George V. Voinovich (R-Ohio) plans to introduce a bill that would call for agencies to appoint a chief human capital officer to address the problems of a dwindling federal IT work force.
GSA's business blend is right, consultant says
The General Services Administration's business model 'basically works,' Accenture LLP of New York concluded in a study of Federal Supply Service and Federal Technology Service functions. 'GSA essentially has the right mix of products and services.'
Davis bill would rush homeland defense buys
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) wants to help agencies smooth the purchase processes that would bring homeland security technology into the government.
OMB tightens grip on e-gov purse strings
When agencies dragged their feet on the Online Rulemaking initiative, the Office of Management and Budget gave the project's partners a jolt: It demanded that they work together and pool their resources to pay for the project.
EDS: Despite report, NMCI project's on track
The contractor for the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet yesterday acted to squelch a published report that the project was off course.
Calendar
18-21 Internet Society Annual ConferenceArlington, Va. Contact the Internet Society; Web: www.inet2002.org.
Of the People: Keep your guard up'plan for emergencies
Shortly after terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11, I observed what I thought was a new and enduring spirit of cooperation and teamwork coupled with a serious-minded focus in the federal work force.
DOD class pinpoints e-gov definition
Ask 10 people 'What is e-government?' and you're likely to get 10 different answers.
Lab gets personal with five of the latest PDAs
Finding the right personal digital assistant is about as hard as hiring the right human assistant. You might choose a PDA that costs too much or is unqualified for the job you need done.
Power on
You don't have to be a graphics designer, mapmaker or photo editor to consider yourself a power monitor user. When I spend 10 hours or so in front of a screen researching material, even I fall into that category, and that's when I need a monitor capable of rendering razor-sharp images at high resolutions.
Incoming
<b>Check your schedule.</b> The newest module of the Global Command and Control System-Maritime lets Navy users maintain ship schedules online.
Navy ship strengthens forecast power
When soldiers take to the battlefield, military meteorologists have to get them accurate weather reports. Even the smallest mistake can lead to casualties.
FEMA seeks cooperation on disaster portal
Administrative obstacles are the most daunting hurdles for the developers of disasterhelp.gov, a government portal for coping with natural and human calamities.
Army unit upgrades multigigabit backbone net
The office that gives IT support to the Army Acquisition Executive has built a superfast Gigabit Ethernet network to serve 50,000 remote users.
LaserFiche suite links documents
The LaserFiche United enterprise document management suite, from the Long Beach, Calif., division of CompuLink Management Center Inc., has a central document repository that works with multiple browser applications.
3Com NICs can house desktop firewalls
A 3Com hardware firewall pushes the protected perimeter back to the desktop client's network interface card.
@Info.Policy: On privacy, U.S. should look to the north
IT and personal privacy concerns go hand in hand. As technology gets more powerful and pervasive, it impinges on privacy. This is nothing new.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics and Treasury offer agencies tools to test-drive their Web sites
It pays to find out how easy government data is easy to retrieve from a Web site, says a research psychologist whose job is making Bureau of Labor Statistics sites visitor-friendly.
In Good Order
Taxonomy can matter as much in an e-government project as roof trusses do in a building. The word is familiar to biologists and library scientists, and it means the same thing in IT: a hierarchical framework for organizing data.
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