Digital Government

Reverse IT fair earns kudos

Agency officials, industry appreciate HHS' unusual approach to working together

Digital Government

Child tax credit info online

Taxpayers eligible for the new Child Tax Credit can check the status of their refund online

Digital Government

EDS takes HITS

The Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded EDS a tech services contract worth up to $860 million

People

Post office has new pay system

Postal Service workers don't have old-fashioned time sheets anymore.

Digital Government

FBI outlines security upgrades

The Justice Department's inspector general has suggestions to improve security, but the bureau said it has carried out many of them.

People

Chapman outlines HHS priorities

Departmentwide tech consolidation and a common e-mail system are top priorities, according to the agency's chief information officer

People

US-VISIT to get Lockheed bid

Lockheed Martin will lead a team bidding on the prime integrator contract for the government's planned system for tracking foreign visitors in the United States.

People

Border agency tests monitors

The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection will have a pilot project to automate monitoring of border intrusions

People

HHS tests finance system

Officials started testing an Oracle-based financial management system two weeks ago at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

People

Software to predict food dangers

FDA seeking modeling tool to forecast scenarios for food contamination

People

Justice to create regional data store

GIS repository provides central repository for law enforcement data

Acquisition

CDC hires Orkand for tech support

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded a contract to Orkand Corporation for continued support for the agency's health statistics division.

Digital Government

USPS seeks customer input

The Postal Service wants customer input on plans to automate the delivery of magazines, catalogs and other flat mail.

People

Child tax credit info now online

The Internal Revenue Service is offering an electronic service for taxpayers to find out the amount of their advance child tax credit and to see when the check was mailed

People

Lieberman: Merge terror lists soon

Sen. Joseph Lieberman this week asked Homeland Secretary Tom Ridge for timetable for when the Bush administration would consolidate the government's terrorist watch lists.

Digital Government

FDA automates event database

Food and Drug Administration officials are increasing their ability to discover bad trends from vaccines or medications

People

FDA seeks food illness model

The Food and Drug Administration plans to create a modeling tool for food threats

People

USDA to train project managers

Robbins-Gioia will teach a five-week course on program management and related requirements of the Office of Management and Budget

Acquisition

Labor to overhaul financial system

Proposed system would enable employees to spend more time on analysis

Acquisition

DEA to re-engineer core apps

First phase of 'Concorde' program focuses on business process re-engineering