Agencies slowly are warming up to using electronic signatures and other forms of electronic verification as a part of their everyday business. The Treasury Department is piloting a smart-card program for electronic and physical access, CIO Drew Ladner said last . . .
Agencies slowly are warming up to using electronic signatures and other forms of electronic verification as a part of their everyday business. The Treasury Department is piloting a smart-card program for electronic and physical access, CIO Drew Ladner said last week at an e-government conference sponsored by Federal Sources Inc. of McLean, Va., and Potomac Forum Ltd. of Potomac, Md.

And the Environmental Protection Agency is working on a final rule to let state governments and private companies submit mandatory environmental reports electronically, said Wendy Cleland-Hamnett, who works in the agency's CIO's office and is responsible for EPA's Government Paperwork Elimination Act reporting.

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