People

Securing home, workplace

The FAA's Y2K guru tackles the next big thing: info security

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.