E-voting technology gets a road test
Lingering questions about security and reliability could mean electronic voting is still not ready for the national spotlight. Still, one company is taking its technology out on the road in preparation for the big time.
Homes for copyright orphans
The Copyright Office is proposing legislation that would make it easier for libraries, universities and archives, including the Library of Congress, to digitize collections that contain 'orphan works.'
Catch a .wav
If you're on your third copy of the White Album or you can't find a phonograph needle to play your Elmore James 78s, you can understand the plight of the Library of Congress: A collection of nearly 3 million recordings in every format from wax cylinders, to disks and tapes, to CDs, most of them playable only on obsolete equipment.
Mike Wash | Government IT is becoming content-centric
The Government Printing Office has been a print-centric agency focused on printing and disseminating printed publications. But the demands of the information age have forced GPO to rethink its approach to creating and disseminating government documents.
EDITOR'S DESK: Meet the elite
This issue honors the elite of government career workers. The 12 profiled in this special issue have shown they can get things done. Important things that move the missions of their agencies and affect the lives of their constituents and fellow workers, done in an environment typically written off as impossibly bureaucratic.
Emily Murphy | After the storm
To say these are trying times at the General Services Administration would be an understatement. But for chief acquisition officer Emily Murphy, it is business as usual as she implements an ambitious program to better train and educate GSA's acquisition workforce'the lifeblood of the organization.
Incoming
The Air Force's IT modernization effort is moving forward rapidly, and the service should reach its targets for 2012 ahead of schedule, the Air Force CIO said recently.
Navy issues strategic sourcing policy for office supplies
Starting May 1, Navy employees will have to use the Defense Department's e-commerce Web portal to place office product orders.
A cyberexercise with real-world lessons
Students from the military academies recently came under cyberattack. Fortunately, it was from a network attack team composed of National Security Agency and Defense personnel during an intense, four-day competition'the sixth annual Cyber Defense Exercise.
PIV cards on the horizon
Six months from the deadline for issuing interoperable smart federal ID cards, standards and specifications are in place. Now the heavy lifting is about to begin.
Invest more in procurement workforce: Davis
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) wants the federal government to spend more money on training procurement officials, and suggests the creation of an exchange program where industry officials help train government-sector employees.
OMB clamps down on brand name specs in RFPs
The Office of Management and Budget has made its rule directing agencies not to use brand names in contract solicitations and requests for proposals part of the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
Better organization, focus needed for cybersecurity
The government needs to establish clear lines of authority and clarify responsibility for an effective national information assurance policy, according to a former presidential adviser.
OMB wants compliance with LOBs, e-gov in budget submissions
The Office of Management and Budget reminded agencies that they must demonstrate how they are implementing the administration's Lines of Business Consolidation Initiative in their fiscal 2008 budget proposals.
Health IT goes to war
Getting the Army's Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care system successfully deployed to the troops on the firing lines in Iraq was the responsibility of Maj. Kevin Watts, MC4's assistant product manager. The mission was accomplished.
The next bright idea
The roles government and industry play in innovative research have changed dramatically. Will America continue to lead the world in innovation?
XO spinoff beams broadband
Nextlink will market its wireless broadband service as a COOP solution.
IT security checklist focuses on consequences of breaches
A contractor for the Homeland Security Department has released a draft cybersecurity checklist intended to help enterprises focus on real-world consequences of security breaches.
FDA bar code rule for drugs takes effect
The Food and Drug Administration's requirements for bar codes on the labels of thousands of drugs and biological products took effect today as part of an agency effort to improve patient safety.
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