People
Web system simplifies military moves
The Defense Department plans to make military reassignments easier to manage with a new Webbased application devoted to relocation services
Digital Government
Caring about safety
Senior officials signed an agreement creating the VA Patient Safety Reporting System, in which NASA will analyze information about medical errors at VA hospitals
Acquisition
Vendors stick with air traffic control system
The vendor teams of ARINC Inc. and Lockheed Martin Corp. will continue to the next level of competition for an automated oceanic air traffic control system
Digital Government
VA targets safer medical care
Senior officials signed an agreement creating the VA Patient Safety Reporting System, in which NASA will analyze information about medical errors at VA hospitals
Digital Government
NASA to analyze VA errors
NASA is to begin operating a system for recording and analyzing VA medical errors and 'close calls'
People
New push for federal CIO
Rep. Jim Turner plans to introduce legislation next month that would create the executivelevel position of chief information officer
Digital Government
FAA expands data service eastward
Pilots flying aircraft over the Atlantic and Pacific coasts now have the equivalent of email for direct communications with air traffic controllers.
Digital Government
GPS augmentation funding mixed
Most of the Transportation Department's funding requests for augmentations to the Global Positioning System signal survived a House Appropriation Committee vote
Digital Government
Steaming ahead with COTS
In its move toward conducting ebusiness transactions, DOT is implementing Oracle Federal Financials with no customization
Digital Government
Science, space get budget push
Funding increases for NASA and the National Science Foundation are included in a $101 billion fiscal 2001 spending bill approved by a House Appropriations subcommittee
Digital Government
New CD charts transportation
Transportation Department releases data sets of transportation facilities nationwide
People
Access tech helps all
New technology designed to make computers accessible to people with disabilities may have benefits for everyone
People
NSF plays matchmaker
A new partnership between the National Science Foundation and academic computer science researchers aims to improve online government services by bridging gaps in research at federal, state and local agencies.
Digital Government
NASA pushes software frontier
The first signs that NASA needed to improve its software engineering were apparent more than a year ago, before the failures of two Marsbound missions.
Digital Government
Software resolutions
NASA's plan to embark on an agencywide effort to improve its software will have four areas of focus:
People
A question of trust
'In Uncle Sam we trust' might not roll off too many people's tongues today, but federal information technology officials recognize that public trust is a key ingredient for an effective digital government.
People
Another call for a CIO czar
A draft of a presidential advisory committee's report on transforming government calls for the creation of a federal chief information officer who would be responsible for interagency information technology projects.
People
Call for IT czar gets high-level boost
A presidential advisory committee's draft report advocates a federal chief information officer who would be responsible for interagency IT projects
People
Intelink managers explore data center
Administrators of a classified Internet are promoting the creation of a data center that will better coordinate information sharing and production
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