What Lies Over The Horizon at FAA

Upcoming contract opportunities at the Federal Aviation Administration, outlined by agency officials and market research firm Federal Sources Inc. of McLean, Va., include these blockbusters:

Citizens Begin Experiencing the E-Gov Revolution

Outdated paper files gathering dust, indifferent bureaucrats, a frustrated populace queuing up for interminable waits for necessary information and documents. Once, this may have been the way citizens viewed government and its ability ? or inability ? to deliver essential services.

FAA Elevates IT Effort As its Work Load Skyrockets

If confirmation were needed that the Federal Aviation Administration is a colossal customer of information technology systems and services, the operating statistics for its air traffic control services could tell the tale. They are daunting, and projections of future work load are even more intimidating.

Agencies Shift to E-Gov Using Power of Portals

For any revolution to succeed, ordinary citizens must be persuaded that the cause is worthy of their participation. For the upheaval in e-government now picking up steam, that persuasion may arrive in the form of a suite of powerful enabling technologies that will encourage taxpayers to make easy, quick use of the pending array of e-services envisioned by local, state and federal agencies.

Everybody Give Me an E

As the power of the Internet imposes an ever-stronger grip on virtually every aspect of how Americans work and play, so does its hold on governments trying to keep pace in a furiously changing society.

Slow and Steady Marks Agency Inroads on Desktop Outsourcing

Despite impressions given by the headline-grabbing Navy/Marine Corps Intranet and National Security Agency's Groundbreaker programs, caution remains the watchword for most federal agencies when it comes to information technology outsourcing.

Full Speed Into the Wireless Network

The buildup of high-speed networks is not just a land-line phenomenon. Several existing breakthroughs in wireless standards and technologies are beginning to make good on the promise of anytime, anywhere service and mobility.

IT Advances Launch High-Speed Networking Explosion

The dearth in bandwidth is about to end.

Enterprise Resource Planning: States Adapt Processes to Match Available Software

Successful system integration contractors have been long guided by the simple maxim that it is better to adapt software to fit client requirements than to force clients to adapt their business processes to fit software.

How DoT and Oracle Went a Webbing

The interest in enterprise resource planning systems is driven by more than lingering year 2000 concerns, according to industry and government officials. Many organizations see ERP as a vehicle for exploiting the business potential of the World Wide Web.

OPEN SYSTEMS

Just three years ago, debates were raging in the technology trade press regarding the future of Linux and open-source computing. Would government and business be willing to host mission-critical applications on what amounted to a shareware operating system?

New Tools Ease the Burdens in Network Management

As networks grow and become increasingly complex and critical in this age of electronic business, both government and business organizations face a widening gap between their technology needs and the availability of qualified personnel.

Agency Profile: Army

The Army has received a lot of attention for its efforts to digitize its battle force, but the service also is looking to upgrade its base information technology infrastructure as well as its logistics, electronic commerce and security programs in the near future.

Systems Integration Powers Military Communication Efforts

The hardest part of building military communications solutions is integration: tying together the different systems and pieces of systems from a variety of vendors so that they can talk to each other.

Use of IT Brings 'Net' ProfitsTo Logistics Management

In today's abundant economy, staying in business is less about supply and more about demand: Managers must move already cached goods as rapidly and cost effectively as possible.

Imaging Integral Part of a Total E-Solution

With the general public finally beginning to feel comfortable with Web-based electronic commerce, federal agencies are ramping up their efforts to provide a breed of e-government applications known as Òconstituent self-service.Ó

Enterprise Computing: Agencies Rethink Business Practices For Better Returns

Most information technology integrators know that they can't sell IT solutions unless they persuasively demonstrate for their clients ? both public and private ? the business value proposition. Ideally, this proposition consists of cost savings, risk reduction and business process improvement.

Distance Learning Takes Root at Government Agencies

Federal agencies are in a bind. As they deploy advanced technology to improve delivery of services amid flat or declining budgets, they also are ratcheting up the pressure on their downsized work force to adjust quickly to new systems and responsibilities.

7th Annual Top 100 Federal Prime Contractors Information Technology Services

The companies that pack Washington Technology's 2000 Top 100 see a government marketplace brimming with opportunities surrounding electronic government, information assurance and outsourcing

Agencies Companies Turn To: Knowledge Management

A decade ago, knowledge management as a formal discipline did not even exist. Now, for the private sector, it offers the prospect of boosting bottom-line gains by distilling and directly applying hard-won know-how.

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