People

Vendors team on security suite

System relies on biometric and risk-assessment technologies and anticipates transportation security needs

People

Airport job recruiting going online

Transportation Security Administration contracts for Web-based system for recruitment and placement

Digital Government

Stepping on the gas

Vehicle agency soups up crash simulators to provide quicker, more accurate analysis

People

Data-sharing projects gain momentum

The EPA and other agencies have begun to promote electronic data sharing in the name of homeland security

Modernization

FAA continues air traffic links

WorldCom to continue operating LINCS, the telecom network that supports the air traffic control system

Digital Government

FAA makes digital strides

Agency forges agreements with three companies to develop communications systems in Nexcom program

Acquisition

Interior seeks help in Indian trust

RFP calls for the implementation of a plan to conduct a historical accounting of trust accounts

People

Revamped student loan site is a hit

The Web site had a 59 percent increase in traffic the first month, with 2 million more filers expected this year

People

Park Service back online

Roll out the sleeping bags and pitch the tents

Acquisition

Fine-tuning outsourcing

NASA gives ODIN customers their due

People

A sense of urgency

For FEMA's Ronald Miller, planning for disasters is part of the job

People

DOT to pursue biometrics

TSA plans to start pilot projects in airports across the nation to test biometric technologies

People

National Park site back online

Popular site is back up and running after a court order shut it down for two months.

People

DOT to pursue biometrics

Transportation Security Administration set to launch pilot projects at airports to test biometric technologies

People

EPA encouraging data sharing

The EPA is launching a state and tribal grant program to facilitate electronic data sharing

Digital Government

Education IT holds steady

Budget request offers resources needed to implement changes called for in the No Child Left Behind Act

Digital Government

Labor's IT work praised, funded

Increase in budget request for IT is built upon security, privacy and enterprise architecture initiatives

People

Interior off-pace in getting online

About 90 percent of the Interior Department remains off-line, Interior Secretary Gale Norton testified before Congress

People

Homeland role boosts FEMA budget

Request includes $3.6 billion for new equipment and training -- a $3.2 billion increase -- to enhance state and local readiness

People

IT funding falters at NASA

The space agency's request includes $2.51 billion for IT spending ? about a $47 million decrease from fiscal 2002