Ron Miller, chief information officer of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, started work Aug. 15 at his new job as part of the Transition Planning Office for the proposed Homeland Security Department. Miller said he will remain with the planning office for an indefinite period of time.
Debra Stouffer has become the Environmental Protection Agency's first chief technology officer. She previously was deputy CIO at the Housing and Urban Development Department, a position she had held since May 1999.
By early next month, agencies will be able to resume leasing IT equipment via the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service Schedule 70.
The Office of Management and Budget is recommending Microsoft's .Net and Java2 Enterprise Edition as possible architectures for its 24 e-government projects.
The Office of Management and Budget soon will dole out $4.1 million to a trio of e-government programs, the FirstGov project and to an effort to educate agencies about managing change.
At least five e-government projects are on the cutting edge of information technology, said Mark Forman of the Office of Management and Budget, who honored the five initiatives with awards from the Quad Council.
More than one-fifth of 556,000 jobs identified in an inventory of government activities can be outsourced, according to the Office of Management and Budget.
The Justice Department will let police chiefs from cities, counties and other municipalities apply for national security clearances that would put them in the information-sharing loop during national emergencies.
Lockheed Martin Corp.'s distribution technologies division has been tapped by the Postal Service to help increase the percentage of mail automatically read and processed.
The New York State Technology Office and New York City IT officials are using the Web and geographic information systems to disseminate information and coordinate resources during rescue operations following the World Trade Center attack.
