Digital Government
A matter of standards
Standards-making is one arena in which the federal sector's role has changed during the past two decades.
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Reinvention as a way of life
How feds learned new ways to think about the work they do and the services they deliver
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DHS goes commercial when it can
The commercial sector may serve as a template for how Homeland Security Department officials structure the agency, but the extent to which DHS borrows from industry will vary depending on the project.
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DHS pursues performance
The Homeland Security Department is employing performance-based contracting methods, a move consistent with the organization's use of commercial best practices.
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Pushing the integration envelope
DHS faces technical, cultural issues as it combines 22 agencies
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Process re-engineering back again
Business process re-engineering, an approach to automation that had fallen out of favor for being too unwieldy, is gaining new credence with the integration of the Homeland Security Department.
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DHS integration: Who's doing what
Officials at the Homeland Security Department aren't tackling information technology infrastructure as a single, global integration project, but instead have delegated a series of integration tasks to contractors.
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Lost in states
Federal block grants, administered by the states, have long been used to get money to city governments.
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Taking stock two years later
Since Sept. 11, 2001, IT investment priorities have started to become clear, as have questions about funding levels
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Pinpointing risk for smarter spending
Perhaps the most fundamental problem in homeland security investment is knowing where to start.
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Linux options
Government customers have a few options when it comes to Linux-based e-mail servers.
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Fitting into the big picture
Agencies are more concerned with information technology consistency than they once were, thanks to efforts such as the federal enterprise architecture initiative.
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Third-party support
Alternative messaging platforms have a considerable array of built-in features, but many offer plug-ins for third-party products.
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Stepping out of messaging's mainstream
Drive for security, savings piques interest in alternatives to Notes and Exchange
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Easing migration
System migration is not typically something technology managers look forward to.
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Vendors work toward 5015.2 compliance
The Defense Department is putting vendors to the test ? that is, at least those who want to become certified providers of records management software.
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Tape holds its place
Disk technology for near-line storage is gaining ground, but tape continues to have a pricing edge for archiving compliance and other fixed-content data.
Modernization
There when you need it
Fixed-content storage wares combine retrieval speed of disk, affordability of tape
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Speeding content delivery
Vendors ride the network's edge with Web-caching solutions
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