HHS awards contract to manage personnel system
The Health and Human Services Department awarded Integic Corp. a $4.7 million contract to transfer its 10 million paper personnel files into electronic form. <br>
Treasury's FinCEN director moves to Coast Guard
James Sloan has resigned as director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the Treasury Department said yesterday, to take a job with the Coast Guard. <br>
FAA set to install digital radars nationwide
The first all-digital radar system is ready for deployment to airports nationwide, the Federal Aviation Administration said today.
Will retiring boomers bust Medicare apps?
Aging technology and the millions of baby boomers set to begin collecting benefits in a few years threaten to overload the Medicare system.
Feds rate regional, state traffic sites
The Federal Highway Administration has rated Web sites for Georgia, Washington, Louisville, Ky., and the Gary, Ind.-Chicago-Milwaukee region highest among 276 state and regional sites for giving drivers easy access to current traffic information.
Mehan: Cybersecurity should work like a human immune system
Security products should be engineered differently to block pathways to intrusion. 'We will have to move to an android cyberdefense that mimics human biodefenses,' said Federal Aviation Administration's CIO Dan Mehan. <br>
CADE studies should provide IRS direction
IRS has experienced so many problems and delays in developing its new taxpayer database that even the agency's chief said efforts so far have failed.<br>
President nominates former Dell executive as next CIO at VA
President Bush has nominated Robert McFarland to become the next assistant secretary of Veterans Affairs for information and technology.
Treasury sets up digital tab for alcohol, tobacco dealers
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau is setting up a system to accept certain forms with electronic signatures from cigarette and spirits dealers.<br>
Security pilot paves the way for wireless throughout Treasury
Rather than fight the proliferation of personal digital assistants and notebook PCs at the Treasury Department, Scott Hill is working to shore up the Treasury infrastructure before wireless services become commonplace.
Now most Food Stamp benefits are paperless
Almost all Food Stamp benefits for low-income individuals and families are now issued electronically, completing a 20-year transition from paper coupons, Agriculture secretary Ann Veneman said late last month.
FDA sets new rules to avert bioterror
Starting Dec. 12, food importers must give advance online notification to the Food and Drug Administration of shipments entering U.S. borders.<br>
The goal of FARES was simple, even if the project was not
When a team from the Farm Service Agency's Commodity Systems Office asked agencies for their system requirements for the Food Aid Request Data Entry System, they received a simple marching order: Just make it better.
Global delivery: Request system helps USDA deliver food
An automated food aid request system developed by an Agriculture Department office in Kansas City, Mo., helps relief organizations deliver billions of dollars' worth of food more quickly to foreign areas devastated by war and poverty.
Chapman, CIO at Health and Human Services, resigns
Melissa Chapman will step down as the CIO of the Health and Human Services Department to join Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.<br>
Food Stamp Program is nearly all paperless
Almost all food stamp benefits are now issued electronically, completing a 20-year transition from paper coupons.<br>
House votes against revised A-76 rules
<font color="CC0000"> UPDATED </font color>The House voted to eliminate funding for the Bush administration's revised competitive sourcing rules.<br>
Complaint tracker goes after Medicare abuses
The Health and Human Services Department will put a new national complaint system into operation this month to track reports of alleged abuses by Medicare and Medicaid providers and suppliers.
Veterans Affairs CTO Perry retires
Frank Perry, who led the development of the Veterans Affairs Department's One-VA enterprise architecture and spearheaded the consolidation of functions, has retired. <br>
E-grants pilot sets example of going for the PMA green
Wade Horn takes the goals of the President's Management Agenda seriously.
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