Digital Government
Eastman taps fed reseller
Vredenburg, an integrator that has specialized in automating document declassification and processing Freedom of Information Act requests, will become the primary reseller and provider of product support for Eastman Software Inc.'s federal customers. The deal, announced May 25, covers Eastman's hig
Digital Government
Work force woes (Part 1)
In an effort to give agencies more flexibility in hiring and paying information technology employees, the Office of Personnel Management this summer plans to revamp the way the government structures its technical work force to more closely resemble the private sector. OPM plans to create a set of s
Digital Government
Work force woes (Part 2)
Faced with the possibility of losing half of its information technology work force over the next five years, the Treasury Department has issued a new report that calls for the government to overhaul how federal IT professionals are trained, paid and promoted. The report, 'Responding to the Crisis i
Digital Government
DOE to unveil robot to help repair crumbling Chornobyl reactor
The Energy Department today plans to unveil a robot that was developed using software from NASA's Mars Pathfinder and other technologies invented under federal research grants that will be used to help repair the crumbling Chornobyl nuclear reactor site.
Digital Government
NRC takes its reading rooms, reports online
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has decided to stop distributing paper copies of its documents to its reading rooms nationwide and now will provide future documents only on the Internet. The change, slated for Oct. 1, would coincide with the rollout of a new information system called the Agencywi
Digital Government
Identitech tackles info overload
Identitech Inc., a vendor of document management and workflow software, last month introduced a new data visualization tool to that uses colorcoded blocks to help users understand complex information at a glance. The Graphical Interface for Information Cognition (GIFIC) is designed to support busi
Digital Government
IT reform's rocky road
When Congress passed the Information Technology Management Reform Act three years ago, it was hailed as the fix for the worst federal IT blunders, from drawnout procurements to multibilliondollar system failures. But today, agencies' compliance with the law is spotty, according to an FCW survey,
Digital Government
Provenance upgrades records software
Provenance Systems Inc. last week announced a new version of its ForeMost electronic recordkeeping software that is designed to be more userfriendly and easier to deploy to large numbers of users. ForeMost Enterprise is a 32bit upgrade to earlier versions of ForeMost, with a new, threetier archi
Digital Government
USIA plugs in Kosovar refugees
Refugees from Kosovo are being given Internet access and email accounts that they can use to obtain news and try to contact their relatives as part of an international relief effort launched last week by the U.S. Information Agency. The program, called the Kosovar Refugee Internet Assistance Initi
Digital Government
Rep. preps IT research funding bill
The chairman of the House Science Committee this spring plans to introduce legislation proposing a program for federal information technology research. Jeff Lungren, a spokesman for Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (RWis.) , chairman of the committee, said last month he would not describe the upcom
Digital Government
Internet centers set up for Kosovo refugees
The U.S. Information Agency, together with other federal agencies and international organizations, is setting up Internetbased information centers for Kosovar refugees at refugee camps in Poland, France, Germany, the Balkans and Fort Dix, N.J.
Digital Government
FMS readies its upgrade program
The Financial Management Service has launched a sixyear effort to revamp how it collects accounting data from federal agencies and to modernize its systems so that it can produce government financial reports more efficiently. FMS would not begin updating or building any systems until 2001 at the e
Digital Government
Network-attached storage lines debut (Part I)
HewlettPackard Co. today will unveil a new line of networkedattached storage products for CD and DVDROM discs aimed at improving management of and access to agency data. The SureStore CD and DVDROM servers connect directly to localarea networks, a design that allows discs to be accessed from
Digital Government
GSA readies all-in-one smart card
During the next two months, 450 General Services Administration employees will have their government identification cards and credit cards replaced with a single smart card they can use to gain access to office buildings, log on to computers and purchase airline tickets, among other applications. T
Digital Government
Vendors team to translate forms to data
Cardiff Software Inc. and Cross Pen Computing Group have teamed to offer a new solution for capturing data from paper forms using a pen computing tablet and data capture software.
Digital Government
NIH awards four networking pacts
The National Institutes of Health on Thursday awarded four networking contracts that together are worth up to $100 million over the next five years. These awards complete a trio of procurements to modernize and support the agency's computing infrastructure. The winning vendors Digicon Corp., Inte
Digital Government
Adobe, Cardiff join forces on forms project
ATLANTA Cardiff Software Inc., which makes data capture software, and Adobe Systems Inc., which makes electronic publishing software, announced last week that they will offer a solution for processing data from forms created in Adobe's popular Portable Document Format. Adobe Acrobat makes it pos
Digital Government
NIH plugs ImageWorld at imaging show
ATLANTA On the floor here at the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) trade show, the National Institutes of Health booth was easy to miss. Tucked into the middle of the secondtolast aisle of the expansive Georgia World Congress Center, it was dwarfed by bigspending vendors
Digital Government
Searching for the right engine
When Emma McNamara was studying library science in graduate school almost 15 years ago, she was given an assignment to imagine the library of the 21st century. She envisioned sensors that could read patrons' thoughts and retrieve the information they wanted. Now acting director of the Environmental
Digital Government
NARA plans electronic image filing rules
Just as federal agencies are grappling with how to manage their email and word processing files, policymakers are calling attention to preserving another category of digital records images. As agencies have moved to paperless business processes, they have created millions of pages of electronic
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