Pay & Benefits

Tech workers will be guinea pigs for civil service changes

A House lawmaker on July 31 will unveil legislation to change some rules for recruiting and retaining federal technology and procurement specialists.

Tech

FirstGov Web portal deluged with citizen e-mail

Citizens are flooding FirstGov, the federal Web portal, with e-mail requests for information, creating a technology and management headache for the site's operators.

Tech

Road to accessible technology just beginning, managers say

Tech

Bush lauds efforts to make technology accessible to the disabled

President Bush on Tuesday heralded technology accessibility regulations that will take effect next week as an opportunity for all Americans with disabilities to gain better access to their government.

Management

OMB appoints technology czar

Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels has appointed Mark Forman, a vice president for e-business at Unisys Corp., to the newly created position of associate director for information technology and e-government.