Digital Government
Collision-warning radar on course
The Federal Aviation Administration will purchase a ground radar system in September that will alert controllers to impending collisions on or near runways at 25 airports, the agency announced last week.
Digital Government
NASA database collects contractor ratings
The Past Performance Database enables contracting officials to post ratings that other centers can refer to in making decisions
Digital Government
FAA tackles runway risks
A combination of new technologies, common sense and improved training will help prevent runway incursions in the future, a panel of aviation experts says
People
FAA retools biz model
Flight delays caused by bad weather are usually beyond human control. But when delays result from broken equipment in the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control system, the FAA Logistics Center is ready to spring into action.
People
Recipe for success
Reinvention of the Federal Aviation Administration's Logistics Center could not have happened without the buyin of its 600 employees.
Digital Government
FAA buying runway warning system
The FAA will purchase a ground radar system in September that will alert controllers to impending collisions on or near runways
Digital Government
ACS acquires Intellisource, clients
ACS Government Solutions Group adds NASA and the FAA to its portfolio with its acquisition of the Intellisource Group
Acquisition
NASA pact attracts dot-coms
The upcoming followon to NASA's popular Science and Engineering Workstation Procurement is already attracting a new breed of potential competitors: dotcom startups that hope to take electronic procurement to the next level.
Digital Government
Fodder for IT policy
Comparing the emergence of information technology to the Industrial Revolution, the National Science Board's biennial report to the president recommends that the federal government research how the Internet, electronic commerce and other technologies affect how we work and live.
Digital Government
NASA builds a nose for bad news
While space shuttle astronauts are busy tending to their duties and scientific experiments, NASA can smell trouble 250 miles away.
Digital Government
NASA airs plans to Congress
The House Science Committee revisits NASA's failed Mars missions, placing emphasis on NASA's management of large projects and its testing of hardware and software
Acquisition
NASA dishing up SEWP III
NASA plans to release a draft solicitation by the end of June for a second followon to its popular Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement contract
People
DOD system to ease moving woes
Planning a move is never fun especially for military service personnel who are uprooted about 20 times during their careers to places they know little or nothing about.
Digital Government
FAA security office opens for business
The hundreds of facilities and the thousands of systems and personnel at the Federal Aviation Administration can look like Mount Everest to someone in charge of information security.
Digital Government
Report: Measuring IT's impact on society
The National Science Board's biennial report to the president recommends a large agenda for future research on the impact of new IT on society
People
Streamlining DOD travel regs
The Defense Integrated Travel and Relocation Solutions Office, an office of the secretary of Defense, is trying to re-engineer the fragmented and time-consuming way permanent-duty travel is coordinated.
People
Planes, trains, autos all on one site
A new World Wide Web site being launched this fall will bring together information about planes, trains and automobiles, helping people ranging from the general public to expert researchers obtain data that would normally require visiting multiple Transportation Department offices and Web sites.
Digital Government
GAO hits satellite navigation plan
It is not clear that the benefits of a satellitebased navigation system being developed by the Federal Aviation Administration are worth the costs, according to a General Accounting Office report released last week.
Modernization
FAA keeps telecom partner
The Federal Aviation Administration announced plans to extend its contract with WorldCom Inc. (formerly MCI WorldCom) to operate the telecommunications network that carries the most critical data in the nation's air traffic control system.
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