What's next for wireless nets
Will wires someday become obsolete? Greg Hanson, CIO for the Senate Sergeant at Arms, thinks it's possible. So it's not surprising that Hanson and his IT team are going full bore on wireless technologies, such as the current project to outfit the Senate's Capitol Hill buildings with a robust wireless infrastructure.
Government users are wild for wireless devices
Agencies seem to be going gangbusters on wireless.In a GCN telephone survey on mobile and wireless communications, 86 percent of agency managers said their agencies use wireless communications technologies for agency business and continuity of operations.
More managers see good than bad in outsourcing
In a GCN telephone survey, most IT managers said their agencies contract with industry for IT support and services, and most expect to do even more outsourcing in the next two years.
OMB's advice: Communicate and innovate
For President Bush, effective implementation of e-government is critical to making government more responsive and cost-effective. And the Office of Management and Budget's e-government initiatives are the most visible manifestation of the government's cross-agency efforts.
Safecom's critical point
One of the Office of Management and Budget's 25 high-profile e-government projects, Project Safecom has had four different management teams under three different agencies since it was launched in 2002.
Working Across Agencies: Cross-agency work gets virtual
Among OMB's 25 e-government initiatives, those that have fared well to date have developed the proper management structure to promote collaboration, the General Accounting Office has said. But cross-agency work hinges on building the right management structure to make collaboration happen, a task overseen by <b>OMB's portfolio team</b>. GCN Management looks under the hood of agency collaboration.
Time is money, and videoconferencing saves both
Why is videoconferencing becoming all the rage? It's mostly the money. 'Our agency is divided between Colorado and Washington, so it saves money to use videoconferencing,' said a senior communications and systems specialist for the Interior Department's National Business Center in Denver.
After 9/11, import data project became more urgent
The Automated Commercial Environment, the oldest ongoing systems project in the Border and Transportation Security Directorate, began life in the Treasury Department in the mid-1990s.
Entry-exit strategy
The Homeland Security Department's Border and Transportation Security Directorate, in a way, is the Homeland Security Department.
Cooper, Congress look to reshape chain of command
Congressional Democrats recently branded the Homeland Security Department's IT management as less than effective and blamed it on 'an organizationally weak DHS CIO's office.'
Mission gap: A special report on the Homeland Security Department
Two years after coming into being, the Homeland Security Department is still under construction, a loose collection of agencies not bound by a common infrastructure. GCN focuses this report on the gaps in Homeland's bridge to domestic security, and its successes to date as well.
HorizonLive opens another door to Web meetings
Web conferencing systems are fantastic: They make online meetings and training sessions accessible to anybody with a browser. Well, maybe not everybody. Maybe not people with disabilities.
GCN Survey: For IT managers, it's patch-as-patch-can
Feeling a little overwhelmed by the flood of patches from software vendors? You're not alone.
To make the grade, NRC takes a personal approach
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's systems have a big, red bull's-eye on them.Every day, the agency's systems face about 500 attempts at reconnaissance and 100 attempted denial-of-service attacks, CIO Ellis Merschoff said.
Agencies falter trying to meet security mandates
Earlier this year, an agency manager stood up during the question-and-answer period at a conference on the Federal Information Security Management Act. He had a gripe about the IT security report cards issued by a House Government Reform subcommittee chaired by <b>Rep. Adam Putnam, R-Fl. </b>
FISMA fosters fixes on IT security front
The Federal Information Security Management Act, passed in 2002, is now the propelling force behind the government's efforts to improve IT security.
Col. Victoria A. Velez - DISA: The power of sharing
For Air Force Col. Victoria A. Velez, the word 'empower' has become a bit worn-out. But she still embraces the idea it conveys. 'I hate to use the word 'empower' because I think sometimes people overuse it,' said Velez, commander of the Defense Information Systems Agency's Joint Interoperability Test Command at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
Clinton Swett - DFAS: Adapt and improvise
In the Marines Corps, leadership style has few nuances. You issue an order. You expect it to be obeyed. But as CIO and director of the Technology Services Organization at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service in Kansas City, Mo., Clinton Swett has had to modify that one-way-street style of leadership.
George Reynolds - Trinity County, CA: From the ground up
Officials in Trinity County, Calif., where the discovery of gold in 1848 triggered the California Gold Rush, struck gold of a different sort a century and a half later when they hired George Reynolds. They just didn't know it at the time.
Managers who put plans into action
GCN Management's Top 10 managers are largely the unsung heroes of government IT management'except to their own managers, peers and staff, who sing their praises. The Top 10 managers were selected from 50 nominees by a panel of 14 current and former federal IT leaders, industry executives and PostNewsweek Tech Media editors. Each profile story (listed below in Management Edition) includes a link to an expanded Q&A with each manager.
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