Digital Government
From data management to knowledge management
Reengineering in federal agencies has taught information technology managers that their burgeoning data sources are worth more to users when linked together. Now the search has begun for software that can help them turn databases, World Wide Web sites, library materials, policy memos even data a
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Mechling schools current, future leaders on IT role in government
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Jerry Mechling, director of Harvard University's Strategic Computing and Telecommunications in the Public Sector program, recently experienced firsthand how information technology can help individuals deal with government agencies. He was driving to a conference in upstate New Yo
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GSA awards Citibank smart card task order
The General Services Administration awarded Citibank a task order to provide GSA employees with integrated purchase and travel cards and to test smart card applications, the company announced today.
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EPA unveils new public-access site
The Environmental Protection Agency has launched a World Wide Web site that pulls together regulatory compliance data from five major manufacturing industries into a searchable public database.
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Money, incompatibility seen as roadblocks to service delivery
Lack of funding, incompatible computer systems and mistrust among federal, state and local officials are major barriers to using information technology to integrate delivery of government services to the public, according to a set of studies presented April 23 to an intergovernmental committee that
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Group says feds ignoring electronic information law
For Russell Powell, the freedom of information officer with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, putting together a World Wide Web site to comply with the Electronic Freedom of Information Act has not been easy. The act, which Congress passed in 1996, required agencies to provide by November 1997 onl
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IBM brings ASCI super online at Livermore
IBM Corp. completed installation earlier this month of a 1,344processor SP supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the company announced last week. The system is an upgrade to one used by the Energy Department's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative, which is an effort to bui
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Hall goes to Customs from Energy
S.W. Woody'' Hall, the chief information officer with the Energy Department, has accepted a job at the Customs Service as the assistant commissioner for information and technology and the CIO. Hall will replace Edward Kwas, who retired from Customs in January.
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NARA wants agencies to buy records systems
The National Archives and Records Administration plans to recommend that agencies buy electronic recordkeeping systems as part of a new policy detailing how the government should maintain digital documents. Michael Miller, director of the Modern Records Management Program at NARA, said officials de
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DOE tests tool to speed priority Internet traffic
After more than a decade of research, the Energy Department this month successfully tested a technology that could allow Internet users especially federal researchers to speed delivery of highpriority traffic by bypassing the massive congestion endemic to the public network. During the test, r
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DOD runs largest-ever battlefield simulation
Defense and National Science Foundationfunded computer scientists recently completed the largestever battlefield simulation, in which more than 100,000 tanks, helicopters, missiles and other vehicles engaged in a computergenerated battle set in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq. Researchers said th
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Watchdog group slams agencies' lack of EFOIA compliance
OMB Watch, an organization that monitors government regulation, said today that federal agencies have been overwhelmingly inadequate'' in complying with laws that require them to provide the public with access to electronic information.
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NIH launches purchasing software that is more than a catalog
The National Institutes of Health plans to unveil new electronic purchasing software today that will allow customers to order products and services from its governmentwide indefinitedelivery, indefinitequantity contracts using a World Wide Web browser. The software, called Procurement Vehicle Man
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NIH reorganizes, refocuses IT offices
The National Institutes of Health has reorganized the way it manages information technology, combining its computer services, telecommunications and policy offices under a newly appointed chief information officer. NIH's Division of Computer Research and Technology (DCRT), the Office of Information
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Judge says agencies must follow new policy
A federal judge April 9 ordered the National Archives and Records Administration to require agencies to preserve or dispose of electronic records according to a temporary policy issued last month. U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman said the government had ignored his decision last October over
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Judge orders NARA to stop destruction of electronic docs
A federal judge yesterday ordered the National Archives and Records Administration to require agencies to preserve or dispose of electronic records according to a temporary policy issued last month.
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Net Sentinel offers to file agencies' archiving woes
As federal agencies anticipate new requirements for maintaining their electronic files, a new company plans to offer, starting today, to take the problem of archiving and storing these documents off their hands. For a monthly fee, Net Sentinel Inc., Annandale, Va., will archive the contents of agen
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New rules address Y2K worker shortage
Seeking additional manpower to fix the millennium bug that is affecting thousands of federal computers, the Office of Personnel Management last week said it would let agencies hike the salaries of programmers working on Year 2000 projects and waive rules that limit how much retired programmers coul
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Power to the People
A chainlink gate and a guard's station are all that is left today of the W.R. Grace Co. battery separator plant in Acton, Mass. Beyond the perimeter, where the fence once stood and a driveway now leads nowhere, looms a fiveacre concrete mound in which is buried poisonous chemical refuse from one
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NASA, Energy help Ukraine avoid nuclear disaster
The Chornobyl (formerly spelled Chernobyl) nuclear power plant's concrete enclosure, which is the only barrier between Ukrainians and deadly nuclear radiation, is crumbling, and two U.S. federal agencies are involved in a project to build a stateoftheart information technology system to fix it.
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