IT contractor mourns loss of three employees

The founder and two other employees of High Performance Technologies Inc. were killed in a weekend plane crash.

Browning joins Booz Allen

Miriam F. Browning, who retired last year as director of enterprise integration in the Army's CIO Office, has joined the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton.

Broadband connections continue to rise

The number of businesses and homes with high-speed connections to the Internet grew 27 percent in the first six months of 2002, the government reports.<br>

Federal Web sites edge commercial ones in survey

Customer satisfaction with federal government Internet sites is slightly ahead of rankings given to private-sector sites, according to a new survey.<br>

CSC bolsters Homeland Security offerings with DynCorp buy

In a move that will expand its work with the federal government, Computer Sciences Corp. is buying DynCorp, an employee-owned information technology and outsourcing company.<br>

Industry's emerging role in homeland defense

Commercial technology?including Web portals and voice over IP?will play a key role in the Herculean task of smoothing the flow of information among federal, state and local agencies involved in homeland security, an Air Force IT leader says.

Ballmer: 'A new era of partnership'

Microsoft's chief executive said the software company and the entire information technology industry "are on the verge of a new era of partnership with the government" to improve security and address privacy concerns.