Digital Government
Integrators shore up work forces for Year 2000 projects
With the deadline looming for federal agencies to identify and fix Year 2000 software glitches, integrators, like the agencies, are stepping up efforts to find qualified people to do the work, even if it means turning to temporaryemployment agencies. While contractors report that most work is just
Digital Government
Air Force's costs soar skyward
The Air Force will spend hundreds of millions of dollars more than previously estimated to ensure that its thousands of computers properly process dates after 1999, according to new Air Force cost estimates. To fix its 2,944 computer systems so that they are Year 2000compliant, the Air Force now e
Digital Government
GAO: FAA's Y2K solution too little, late
The General Accounting Office is expected to tell House committees at a joint hearing this week that the Federal Aviation Administration is the 'furthest behind any other agency' in its attempts to fix its computers so that they will not fail after the centurydate change, according to a governmen
Digital Government
Agencies tackle nuts and bolts of Year 2000 problem
With just more than a year before the federal government is expected to finish fixing its Year 2000 computer glitches agencies now are delving into the gritty details of data interfaces staff shortages and backup plans for systems that fail. Agencies have been aware of these underlying problems but
Digital Government
Christoph heeds a call for help
There is something about public service that sparks the soul of Gary Christoph chief information officer at the Health Care Financing Administration. Christoph wearing a rustbrown suit a striped shirt and a silk multicolored bow tie explained that following a philosophy of helping others can help
Digital Government
HCFA warns noncompliant contractors
In a move to make computer systems that support the Medicare program Year 2000-compliant, the Health Care Financing Administration has threatened to deny new information technology contracts to vendors if they fail to make the systems Year 2000-compliant.
Digital Government
OMB gets tough with agencies
Pushing agencies to hasten their efforts to fix the century date processing problem in government computers the Office of Management and Budget is expected this week to require seven agencies to begin moving hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for new information technology projects to fix da
Digital Government
SSA pushes to get PEBES service back online this month
The Social Security Administration still hopes it can meet its yearend target to bring back online its controversial Personal Earnings and Benefit Statement (PEBES) service but agency officials want to make sure the system is secure before going back online. SSA promised in September to put PEBES
Digital Government
PeopleSoft enhances federal HRMS package
PeopleSoft Inc. last month introduced a new version of its federal human resources management software (HRMS) suite that supports additional management functions and provides new features for accessing and managing data. PeopleSoft 7 HRMS for federal government users a version of its basic HRMS s
Digital Government
Davis to revive bill to open sked to states and localities
Rep. Tom Davis (RVa.) plans to reintroduce next month a bill that would allow state and local governments to purchase information technology products and services from the General Services Administration's schedule of contracts. Davis fought this year to include language in the Federal Acquisitio
Digital Government
GSA unveils Year 2000 database
In an effort to provide assistance to federal information technology personnel boggled by the number of commercial software offerings now touted as Year 2000compliant the General Services Administration this week will unveil its Year 2000 COTS Product Database. The database which officially opens
Digital Government
GAO lambastes credit union regulator for slow IT fix
In its latest criticism of agencies that have failed to assess and fix computers to properly manage the Year 2000 date change the General Accounting Office last month blasted the National Credit Union Administration for not moving fast enough to fix its computer systems. Last month GAO told the Sen
Digital Government
GAO praises, criticizes SSA's Year 2000 efforts
The General Accounting Office last week presented a mixed bag of warnings and compliments to the Social Security Administration's efforts to make its computers Year 2000compliant. While praising SSA for having one of the most progressive programs to identify and fix computers so that they can prop
Digital Government
Labor reawards black lung pact to CSC
The Labor Department last week awarded a $47 million contract to Computer Sciences Corp. to transform the systems that process medical benefits to coal miners with black lung disease. Under the fouryear Black Lung Support Services contract which CSC has held since 1987 CSC will move Labor's Black
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FEMA Disaster-Prediction Software Expands
FEMA Disaster Prediction Software Expands
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FEMA to expand disaster prediction
The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) last week agreed to issue a request for proposals to expand a system that predicts the number of deaths and economic losses from natural disasters. In four to six weeks NIBS a congressionally authorized n
Digital Government
Mitre to referee FAA, controllers' beefs
Under pressure from Congress the Federal Aviation Administration has done an aboutface and agreed to go back to the drawing board with air traffic controllers to iron out its flawed billiondollar ATC modernization project. The FAA has agreed to meet with Mitre Corp. a federally funded research an
Digital Government
IRS forms electronic signature policy
As part of the Internal Revenue Service's push to develop an electronic tax filing system the agency next month plans to issue a policy to authenticate socalled electronic signatures on tax returns. Mary Ellen Corridore management and program analyst with the IRS said the agency will identify alte
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CIO: Tax bill hampers IRS' millennium fix
The chief information officer for the Internal Revenue Service last week said the taxcollection agency's schedule to make its computers Year 2000compliant will be disrupted by the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997. Arthur Gross speaking at a Year 2000 seminar held by the Information Technology Associat
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