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Modernization
Fortress on the Hill
Capitol Visitor Center has 580,000 square feet underground, but officials won’t say whether it is a congressional bunker
Digital Government
FlipSide: IT community volunteers to help hurricane victims
Many companies gave workers time off to head south to give humanitarian aid.
People
G. Kelly Croft: SSA averts delay in check deliveries
Croft sent technicians to the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast to establish computer networks to restore connectivity and provide Social Security checks.
People
UPDATED: McFarland resigns as VA CIO
VA Secretary James Nicholson announced that McFarland will resign effective April 30 after two years on the job.
Modernization
Mirror Image takes on Akamai
Upstart firm wants to take on a major market leader for Internet content and storage
Cybersecurity
E-passports to debut this summer
The State Department will start issuing e-passports that include a random number that makes the document harder to forge.
Modernization
Visionaries needed
Agencies are facing a telecom revolution with few big thinkers to lead
People
Feds cope with the ‘greener pastures’ syndrome
Some CIOs make a career of jumping the fence and, in many ways, are richer for doing it
People
GTSI lays off another 10 percent
The company cut 10 percent of its workforce today, its second round of layoffs since October 2005.
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People
Cureton named CIO at Goddard
Linda Cureton, deputy CIO at the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, has been named CIO at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
People
Corps budget request includes military spending
Bush's proposal calls for $375 million for fiscal 2007, which includes military spending for the first time.
People
New program to monitor loans
The Bush administration's fiscal 2007 budget proposal includes a new initiative designed to manage risk.
Digital Government
State Department IT budget grows in budget request
The Bush administration has asked for $890 million to support the department's information technology needs in fiscal 2007.
People
Bush cuts Education IT budget
The Education Department would take a small cut in its fiscal 2007 information technology budget, from $407 million to $403 million.
People
Slow growth for VA IT budget in 2007
The fiscal 2007 IT budget proposal for the VA is $1.9 billion, a slight increase from $1.84 billion in 2006.
Digital Government
SSA gets a small increase in Bush budget
Nearly a third of the agency's $1.03 billion IT budget will go toward updating its infrastructure to improve claims processing.
