Digital Government

Alliance backs open document format

Several major software companies and industry associations will promote the use of nonproprietary technologies for archiving government records.

Digital Government

House Republicans introduce innovation act

Legislation would extend tax incentives and offer other spurs to innovation with the goal of strengthening American competitveness.

People

Bush names 14 new PCAST members

Heavy hitters from the IT arena will soon join the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

People

Energy A-76 competition could serve as model — but should it?

Contractors teamed with federal employees rather than compete against them for a DOE engagement. Could their experience guide other companies?

People

Feds secretly reclassify data

Thousands of documents have been taken off the shelves but left on the Internet

People

Decrying secrecy, citizen groups fight back

More federal agencies are taking data off the Web, while citizens seek ways to restore public access

People

Another post-Katrina problem: What happened to the street?

Hurricane response highlighted the need to standardize digital maps

People

Google Video shows Archives' movies

Google announces partnership with the National Archives and Records Administration to make historic movies viewable online for free.

Digital Government

Energy launches megasearch effort

Internet users will be able retrieve scientific research from four major portals by entering one query on one Web site.

Modernization

UPDATED: Bush's 2007 budget cuts target EPA libraries

Public employee group members protest proposed cuts they say would undermine environmental research.

People

Secret program reclassifies documents

A public interest group says that thousands of declassified pages of public records have been reclassified and removed from the shelves of NARA's research facility.

Digital Government

Dems attack Bush R&D budget

House Democrats attacked the president's fiscal 2007 budget request for cutting research programs that fall outside his innovation agenda.

People

McMillen is at home in history

NARA's first public liaison strives for candor, openness with the institution's constituents

Digital Government

Hello, IRENE

Library of Congress to use image tool for sound restoration

Digital Government

NASA to archive airlines' flight safety data

Battelle Memorial Institute will develop the distributed archive of airline flight data and safety reports.

Modernization

FAA would reduce spending on telecom system

The agency's budget, however, seeks a 32.6 percent increase for a modernization program.

Digital Government

Bush budget seeks to cut NASA financial management funding

The president wants to cut the budget for NASA’s troubled financial management system by 30.8 percent.

People

Bush skewers e-records research program, again

His fiscal 2007 budget proposal seeks to end the National Archives and Records Administration's grants program for state and local electronic records research.

Digital Government

Energy's 2007 budget request boosts supercomputing

DOE is seeking an $82 million increase for the Advanced Scientific Computing Research program.

Modernization

Georgia Tech, Oak Ridge team up

The close proximity of their computational resources supplies the networking and power to maintain some of the largest computer systems in the world.