Verizon gets MAA crossover for Baltimore
The General Services Administration has modified a Metropolitan Area Acquisition contract held by Verizon Communications Inc. of New York to add local telephone service for federal agencies in Baltimore.
TSA will need more money to secure airports
The fledgling Transportation Security Administration is likely to run out of money by the end of the month.
OMB will revise Circular A-76
The Office of Management and Budget last week announced plans to make changes to OMB Circular A-76, drawing on the recommendations of a just-released review of the circular.
The week's top stories for April 29 through May 3
<p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/18581-1.html">NMCI gains 100,000 more seats</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/18568-1.html">Lieberman bill would create a tech office for homeland security</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/18565-1.html">GAO gets specific about security costs and tests</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/18553-1.html">DISA sets a deal aimed at providing extra cyberdefenses</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/18528-1.html">Panel determines A-76 has worn out its welcome</a>
Feds confront their legacy applications
Congress and the public are calling on federal agencies to fling open their back-office doors and let electronic data and services flow onto the Web. No one knows better how difficult that challenge is than CIO Audrey Y. Davis, who has helped cut DFAS' 324 legacy systems down to size.
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Federal Contract Law: Why doesn't new safety agency use its buying power?
The 6-month-old Transportation Security Administration faces a daunting array of tasks. It has six more months to assume operational responsibility for screening all airport passengers and checked baggage, hire and train a new federal security work force, and deploy and manage the air marshals program and other on-board security measures.
FAA manager shuns secrets
As the product team lead of the Federal Aviation Administration's billion-dollar air traffic modernization project, Nancy L. Chapman has seen controversy up close.
When ink met paper: network printers
Hands down, a printer is the most-used peripheral on agency networks. Even a large workgroup of users can share one or two of the printers in this review without stepping on each other's toes.
Spectrum summit tries to solve reallocation problems
In the battle over radio frequency between government agencies and wireless service providers, sharing is not a word often heard from the Defense Department.
Lieberman bill would create a tech office for homeland security
Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) wants $200 million to develop homeland security technologies under a new Science and Technology Office within a cabinet-level Homeland Security Department.
Major Programs at Interior
<b>Earth Resources Observation Systems Data Center.</b> The Geological Survey center in Sioux Falls, S.D., uses satellite data to map national and international land masses and to analyze trends in land cover.
DT/Studio tackles data integration
DT/Studio, an extraction, transformation and loading tool for data integration projects, moves data from multiple sources into target applications in three steps.
HP makes 2.2-pound DLP projector
Hewlett-Packard Co. makes one of the market's lightest digital light processing projectors, the 2.2-pound sb21.
App filters out classified e-mail
Classified information embedded accidentally'or intentionally'in e-mail used to be an everyday headache at the Office of the Defense Undersecretary for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.
Procurement apps will reach more stored data
Government procurement applications from American Management Systems Inc. are gaining a data integration platform to access more types of stored data.
Richard Mayo to take over new Navy IT command
The Senate has confirmed Navy Vice Adm. Richard W. Mayo to head the newly authorized Naval Network Warfare Command.
Letters to the editor
It does not surprise me that the General Services Administration site has earned only $17.7 million in its first year, given the problems I have experienced trying to use the site ['GSA auction site earns $17.7 million in first year,' GCN, April 1, Page 49]. I appreciate GSA trying to use technology to get a better return for taxpayers, but in this attempt they are ripping off those taxpayers.
Internaut: Here's the latest in usability lore from'surprise!'the feds
Agency webmasters always feel pressure to nail up more door knockers on their sites. After all, the taxpayers deserve to know what's there, and the agencies deserve to highlight their hard work in adding another database or resource.
Outlining advantages, an IPv6 leader urges U.S. adoption of the protocol
Network engineers for years have predicted an end to the supply of 32-bit addresses under the Internet Protocol Version 4, in use for more than two decades. Now the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers says the 200 million IPv4 addresses will definitely be exhausted around 2005.
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