Modernization
AT&T fighting to keep foothold
AT?#038; Amp;T may have lost FTS 2001 contracts to competitors Sprint and MCI WorldCom 18 months ago, but the telecommunications giant did not go quietly into the night.
Modernization
Qwest unifies management platform
A new World Wide Webbased network management platform is promising government telcommunications and network managers the opportunity to run their network administration and billing operations with the simplicity of online banking.
Acquisition
GSA awards $1B in telecom deals
The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service awarded four multimilliondollar Metropolitan Area Acquisition contracts
Digital Government
Web City
A handful of city governments also have begun to use the Web to interact with their residents.
People
Web-time Travelers' Aid
Government has information and lots of it. In fact, collecting information is its business.
People
Drag a Wild Horse
The Bureau of Land Management has put online auctioning to work to fulfill one of its missions.
People
Web Mining Public Debt
For the National Park Service, interactive doesn't necessarily mean talking to a park ranger, but the service oversees a pair of Web sites that offers up-to-date information on the nation's public parks.
People
Student Aid
The Education Department has found the best way to encourage interaction with the public ? or at least with students ? is to offer money.
Modernization
GAO: Keep FTS exclusive
The General Accounting Office warned last week that opening the government's longdistance business to further competition might cut into revenues promised to FTS 2001 contract holders Sprint and MCI WorldCom and might possibly make the government liable for the difference.
People
DOD Opens Up
The other federal agency that faces seemingly infinite amounts of data is the Defense Department. Much of it is classified and kept tightly tucked away, but some of it is made public.
People
Healthfinder
Probably the industry that government has the most voluminous amounts of data on is health care.
People
10 that click
These sites offer unique services that show what digital government can provide.
People
Bulgaria for the People
Proponents of digital government envision the Web providing a way for the public to directly interact with government employees. Visions of taxpayers submitting last-minute tax questions to an IRS agent are not too farfetched, online experts say.
People
Housing Sites
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has also made e-commerce work for the agency.
Modernization
Cutting through the noise
Think of the airwaves as tens of thousands of multilane intersecting highways with the traffic ? communications signals ? to match.
Modernization
Ultra-wideband makes waves
Finding a needle in a haystack isn't child's play anymore, thanks to X-rays, radar detectors and metal detectors. But how about finding a person behind a wall of a burning, smoke-filled building? Or pinpointing the location of a lost soldier in a foggy valley?
People
Supreme Court rounds up Web site
The Supreme Court launches its Web site today, centralizing information it had in other, less widely available electronic forms
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