People

Petitioners want Katrina contracts online

Open-government proponents say they hope to prevent misuse of taxpayer dollars by disclosing how officials spend public money.

People

GPO awaits Web-harvesting technology

Agency seeks technology that can query specific classes of information.

Digital Government

Congress agrees to boost NSF funding

Lawmakers agree to raise funding for the National Science Foundation by 3 percent in fiscal 2006.

Modernization

FAA telecom overhaul knocks out radar

A radar outage occurred this week at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago because the FAA was transitioning to a new telecom provider.

People

Medical publishers still battling NIH

NIH says links to publishers' sites would not help NIH achieve its goal of creating a permanent, integrated research archive.

People

FDA to list approved products in online archive

The Food and Drug Administration is demanding that manufacturers submit information printed on prescription drug labels in a new electronic format.

People

Auditors again deride NASA financial system, EA

NASA risks inaccurate accounting of its most expensive space missions because the agency is still struggling to build a modern financial management system.

Digital Government

Ready, set, declassify

DOD, Justice struggle to review documents slated for declassification

Modernization

Blue Gene computer grows up and goes off to work

The world's fastest supercomputer -- located at the Lawrence Livermore National laboratory -- just got faster.

Modernization

IRS torn between e-enforcement and e-filing

IRS officials say they are caught between devoting technology resources to booking tax evaders and helping taxpayers file electronically.

Digital Government

NASA taps Northrop Grumman for supercomputing software

The company will provide software for a new Software Integration and Visualization Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Cybersecurity

Appeals court shelves shutdown of Interior computers

An injunction, issued Oct. 20, blocked the use of any systems with access to Indian trust fund data.

Digital Government

USGS A-76 competition suspended

The director of the U.S. Geological Survey suspended plans to outsource or eliminate most of its major mapping technology operations.

Cybersecurity

Judge orders Interior IT system shutdown

In a network security tug of war, a judge reclaims ground on a nine-year Indian trust fund lawsuit.

People

Weapons agency finds answers with topic maps

Energy Department officials have discovered that topic maps can be useful in managing the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile.

Modernization

Outdated tech delays GPO contract award

Government Printing Office delayed a technology procurement because technologies submitted are already outdated.

People

Rescuing missed information

Cutting-edge commercial wares give agencies a whole new outlook on searching for information

Modernization

Power search

Could search commercial technology replace some information management standards?

People

Mapping technology threatens USGS jobs

Fewer mapmakers needed as agency prepares a competitive sourcing bid

Modernization

The search for 1,000 points of light

NASA's Ames Research Center hopes Google will help IT explore the final frontier