Ciber to guide Idaho transportation through EA

The Idaho Transportation Department wants Ciber Inc. to help it build an enterprise architecture strong enough to support new technology systems and applications that are part of a departmentwide transformation initiative.

Labor seeks vendor to host GovBenefits portals

The Labor Department is looking for offers to host Web sites and components related to its GovBenefits program, an online portal that gives citizens access to government benefit eligibility information.

Tech success: Pearson scores an A for effort

In its first months of operation, an Education Department effort that gives students and parents a way to apply for federal student aid online attracted 35,000 applications.

Return to the final frontier

Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin relied on note cards to help guide the Apollo 11 lunar module to its landing on the moon in 1969.

CMS prepares for chronic-care management system

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released a draft statement of work for requirements for its Chronic Care Improvement Information Management System.

OFPP to contractors: Use ESRS to track subcontracting milestones

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is requiring civilian government contractors to use a new online reporting system for tracking federal subcontracting goals.

Nevada county taps Tyler Technologies for court software

Nevada's Clark County hopes to improve the way it manages information related to court cases with a new automated case management system from Tyler Technologies Inc.

EA helps mind the money

Intelligence is an imperfect science. Just ask CIA or the 9/11 Commission. Or EDS Corp., the contractor tasked with wrangling thousands of legacy systems into the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet. When EDS started the job, the Navy thought it had about 5,000 applications to integrate. EDS found more than 100,000.

DOD seeks industry opinion on its business transition plan

The Defense Department now wants industry's opinion of its design for transitioning business systems to its new architecture.

Alliant procurement strategy under review at GSA

The General Services Administration will hold a public forum on its multibillion-dollar Alliant procurement later next month, and may issue a second set of draft requests for proposals, according to the official in charge.

NIC inks portal management deal with Colorado

NIC Inc. has won a competition with large systems integrators for a long-term contract to provide Web portal services to the state of Colorado.

Carmona prescribes national IT system for e-health records

The U.S. surgeon general adds his support to the creation of a health IT system for electronic medical records, transactions and education.

Lessons from the market trenches

Network administrators usually spend their time concerned with routers, PCs and servers. Operating a chainsaw? Cutting down trees? That's not part of the job description.

CHANNEL LEADERS: Top of their game

As the water within their Pensacola, Fla., building began to reach ankle depth ? thanks to 2004's Hurricane Ivan ? Computer Sciences Corp.'s employees working with the Navy put aside personal worries and focused on how to keep the operation running.

DOD finds way to speed technology to warfighters

Defense Department officials are using the Rapid Equipping Force vehicle to get around traditional acquisition hurdles when an emergency acquisition is needed.

NIEM releases first draft of info-sharing specs

The National Information Exchange Model is an Extensible Markup Language-based schemata that could be used by agencies to share information.

GPO accelerates timetable for FDSys procurement

GPO officials anticipate issuing a solicitation for a master integrator for the Future Digital Content System in December, with a contract award in February 2006.

DHS has portal for security tools, tips for software developers

New Homeland Security Department Web site features best practices, tools and other resources for creating more reliable and secure software.

GAO details acquisition best practices

A new policy framework from the Government Accountability Office concludes that acquisition success depends on instituting best practices in four broad areas, including data management and security.

Perry resigns from GSA's top post

After months of speculation, Stephen Perry has resigned as administrator of the General Services Administration, effective Oct. 31.