Technology Stories: Features

articles examining federal technology issues.
Government Executive

Purchasing IT as a Utility (Septmeber 2000)
The success of seat management trailblazers may tempt the timid to test the approach.

Missing the Boat (August 2000)
Public-private partnersips, are helping to bridge the digital divide.

CIOs Set New Goals (August 2000)
Procurement Preview: The IT portion of our guide to what the government buys, how it buys, and who is doing the buying.

Y2K Work Changed Course of IT (July 2000)
Agencies learn from the Y2K crisis that wasn't.

Information is Power (March 2000)
As agencies pull data from virtual warehouses into executive information systems, they're finally seeing how technology can help monitor and measure performance.

The Cyberforce (February 2000)
Agencies combat online crime with a new brand of Internet police.

Feeling the Byte (February 2000)
Internet-oriented firms are nipping at the heels of the U.S. Postal Service, pushing it into the e-commerce frontier.

The IT Pioneers (December 1999)
The 21 winners of the Government Technology Leadership Awards forge into the IT frontier.

Net Smart (November 1999)
Savvy agencies are learning what works-and what doesn't-on the World Wide Web.

Split Decision (October 1999)
More information reaches troops on the battlefield than ever before. But will it lift the fog of war or cloud decision making?

Knowledge Tapper (September 1999)
Margaret Wheatley, an organizational development consultant and theorist, discusses knowledge management.

Agencies Look Beyond Y2K (August Top 200 issue)
With the millennium changeover more or less under control, agencies are thinking about new IT programs and new ways to implement them.

The Millennium Spin (July)
Agencies are struggling to provide information about the year 2000 problem without setting off a panic.

Netiquette (May)
As federal Internet usage grows, so do concerns about where to draw the line on employee use of the Net.

Information Insecurity (April)
Protecting government computer systems from hackers is vital to national security. It's also increasingly difficult.

CIOs on the Go (March)
More than two years after Congress ordered agencies to appoint chief information officers, CIOs are struggling for power-and often jumping ship.

High Tech Hurdles (February)
Everyone wants to evaluate IT performance, but few have figured out how to do it.

Real World Results (January)
Winners of the seventh annual Government Technology Leadership Awards demonstrate how federal agencies can get real results from technology investments.

The Big IT Handoff (October)
Using the 'seat management' approach, some agency quarterbacks are opting to pass their desktop computing operations to private contractors.