People

Indian trust fund management targeted

The Interior Department's struggle to impose order on its Indian trust fund management featured prominently in GAO's report

People

Education schooled on IT controls

Weaknesses in Education Department information systems carry the potential for fraud and abuse in loan and financial management programs

Digital Government

Labor has to work on one-stop system

GAO criticizes a Labor Department data collection system and the department's role in the H1-B visa program

Digital Government

Grants seed mapping projects

Applications are available for $1 million in grants to help work toward making digital geographic data consistent and accessible

Digital Government

USGS takes over Landsat ops

USGS action consolidates a program that provides researchers with detailed pictures of Earth and other data

People

Education set to hire deputy CIO

CIO Craig Luigart says he's nearly finished with hiring the 'core leadership' of a revamped office

Digital Government

Labor eases use of accounting systems

The Labor Department is launching a project this month to Webenable its core accounting system

Digital Government

LOC stocking electronic journals

The Library of Congress will get its first complete set of electronic journal archives through an agreement with a physics organization

Acquisition

Congress may renew contract bundling fight

Advocates say bundling saves agencies time and money; opponents believe it cuts small businesses out of procurement opportunities

People

Refining the FirstGov map

Visitors to the federal government's Web portal literally do not know what they're missing: a trove of information

Acquisition

Small biz key to CIO-SP 2

The National Institutes of Health awarded the follow-on to its innovative Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners contract last month

People

New and improved

Other FirstGov initiatives already online or in the works:

Acquisition

NIH follows up with CIO-SP 2

CIOSP 2, potentially worth $19.5 billion, provides agencies the opportunity to outsource IT services and support to 48 vendors

Digital Government

Web opens USGS' mainframe-bound reports

The U.S. Geological Survey is offering scientists around the world access to USGS' mainframestored reports thanks to a Webenabling tool

Digital Government

Panel promotes Web in education

A bipartisan education commission called on Presidentelect Bush and Congress to make the Internet a more prominent tool in classrooms

Digital Government

Electronic access to info makes gains

More federal workers say they have electronic access to workrelated information than a year ago, a survey shows

Digital Government

FEMA hopes for flood of ideas

Instead of issuing an RFP, FEMA is hosting a forum for companies to discuss profitable ideas on how to improve the agency's flood insurance program

Digital Government

Clinton orders up Air Traffic Organization

An executive order establishes a performancebased organization responsible for management of the air traffic control system

People

Group to test GIS standards in military

Open GIS Consortium is launching an initiative to enable geospatial systems within military and intelligence agencies to work together

Digital Government

Agency adds smart cards

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is bolstering systems security by adding publickey infrastructure and providing smart cards to 1,500 employees.