People

GPO's newest job: A digital czar

GPO announced that it promoted Thomas "T.C." Evans, deputy superintendent of documents, to the new position of assistant chief of staff for strategic initiatives.

People

Gingrich: 'Paper kills,' electronic medical records save lives

Katrina has shown beyond doubt the necessity of moving to electronic records, policy figures argue.

People

NOAA revisits tsunami preparedness

In Katrina's aftermath, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is wrestling with thin preparedness for a potentially deadlier disaster -- a tsunami.

People

GPO forms new digital director position

The agency charged with distributing government publications has created a new executive-level position to lead its transition into the Digital Age.

Digital Government

NARA taps Lockheed for electronic archive

Failure to develop ERA system is not an option, archivist says

Modernization

Mitre: FAA telecom overhaul could face cost overruns

A report urges the agency to get the project back on track before existing contracts expire.

Digital Government

Critics fault FOIA managers

They say a lack of accountability caused backlog

Digital Government

Forecasting Katrina

Scientists use a slew of technologies to predict impact of hurricanes

People

NARA selects Lockheed for its e-records program

Lockheed beat out Harris for the $308 million contract to create an electronic records archive.

People

Katrina knocked out real-time weather

The Internet weather service WeatherBug reported that 50 percent of its weather instrument stations were not functioning.

People

Makeshift control towers guide rescue planes

The FAA used its ingenuity to create control towers that allowed thousands of planes to land in hurricane-devastated areas.

People

IT helps limit flight delays

FAA officials say they had appropriate communication capacity to reroute air traffic last week and are prepared for this week’s challenges.

People

NOAA supercomputer predicted hit, underestimated force

Supercomputers helped the agency accurately predict where Hurricane Katrina would hit, but they missed predictions about its intensity.

People

Thomas refreshed

Library of Congress upgrades its popular Web site

Cybersecurity

GAO: Federal data mining not obeying privacy rules

Federal agencies are not adequately protecting citizens’ privacy when they query databases containing personal information, congressional auditors say.

People

National archivist seeks states' advice

New committee will bring outside expertise to NARA

Cybersecurity

NSF announces program to create a new Internet

National Science Foundation officials said they envision the creation of more secure network architectures.

People

EPA data littered with errors and gaps

A new report calls for a single, centralized data system after finding that EPA data is full of errors.

People

Fed retirements pose a challenge

GAO asks agencies to improve teamwork efforts and use of metrics.