Forman's team funds four projects
When Office of Management and Budget officials chose which of the 24 e-government initiatives would receive funding from the $5 million appropriated by Congress for fiscal 2002, they looked at the business cases the agencies submitted.
Deju vu for DREN: DISA faces protests
Somewhere in soliciting bids and awarding the $450 million contract for the Defense Research and Engineering Network, something went wrong for the Defense Information Systems Agency. Again.
A-76 recommendations are due this week
A panel reviewing government outsourcing efforts will make four major recommendations this week to improve the OMB Circular A-76 process.
GAO answers XML report critics
The lead author of a General Accounting Office report on the Extensible Markup Language is working to build bridges to a vendor group that criticized the report.
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EPA taps Signal for follow-on software pact
The Environmental Protection Agency has signed a five-year, $6 million task order with Signal Corp. of Fairfax, Va., to continue developing software for EPA's environmental response teams.
Unisys systems run Windows, mainframe OSes
Three new midrange mainframe computers from Unisys Corp. use the same cellular multiprocessing architecture as the company's Enterprise Server ES7000.
Army issues RFP for new tactical network
The Army will use commercial technologies to develop a tactical network for voice, data and video communications.
7,100 apply in first 2 days of virtual job fair
Applicants flocked to the virtual IT job fair last week presented by the CIO Council and Office of Personnel Management.
Navy uses smart cards to speed travel process
The Navy is the first department in the Defense Department to use Common Access smart cards for the Defense Travel System.
Schedule shop issues new set of leasing terms
The General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service last week submitted final IT leasing terms to vendors for approval. Contractors have until May 3 to either sign the new terms or negotiate changes.
The week's top stories for April 22 through April 26
<p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/18456-1.html">House votes to abolish INS, create two new agencies</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/18474-1.html">Online job fair: Now the sifting begins</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/18460-1.html">GSA official: Standardize federal ID cards</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/18444-1.html">Air Force readies an integrated war office</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/18439-1.html">Labor launches the first of OMB's 24 e-gov projects</a>
Trade commission runs Web dragnet
'Surf's up' is not a phrase most people would associate with scam investigators at the Federal Trade Commission. But surfing is one of the chief pastimes at the FTC Internet Laboratory'surfing the Web, that is. Commission attorneys and investigators use the lab to track down online-savvy violators of the 87-year-old Federal Trade Commission Act and related laws.
OMB advocates J2EE, .Net for e-gov
The Office of Management and Budget is recommending that the architects of the 24 e-government initiatives use Java 2 Enterprise Edition or Microsoft .Net as underlying technology.
GSA Team prepares to test authentication gateway
The General Services Administration is building a prototype gateway to authenticate transactions for agencies' e-government programs.
Calendar
Meetings, events of interest to government IT managers.
Of the People: Virtual job fairs are the wave of the future
As I wrote this, we in the federal government were about to establish a new mark in the history of personnel recruitment.
NMCI chief is for change
Rear Adm. Charles L. Munns wants every sailor to be as enthusiastic as he is about the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet. But even if they aren't, the NMCI program manager stresses that the $6.9 billion outsourcing program will proceed.
Look me in the eye--or in the face
Vendors of biometric devices are betting that their face and eye recognition technologies can make a camera lens as efficient as a security guard's watchful eye. Far-fetched? Maybe not.
Bright future for presentations
The value of multimedia presentations has always been a mixed bag. They're often necessary, even illuminating, in office meetings, conferences and road shows. And if nothing else, they give people something to do besides stare at you, the presenter.
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