Raytheon files second protest on FAA's ERAM
A billion-dollar air traffic modernization project faces its second protest in two years from Raytheon Co.
VA picks four for Peaches system support
The Veterans Affairs Department has tapped four companies to provide departmentwide hardware and software support.
PACKET RAT
Last month the Rat glimpsed an article in which Air Force CIO John Gilligan complained about the security problems of Microsoft Windows. 'We're not leaving Microsoft in a week or six months,' he told InformationWeek, but he did suggest that dumping Microsoft Corp. products was an option.
UNSCRAMBLE
TELEWORK, WORK, WORK
NMCI test results could boost seats to 149,000
Navy-Marine Corps Intranet director Charles Munns met with senior Defense Department officials Friday to update them on the progress of contractor testing and evaluation.
Forman downplays IT work force crisis
Among the many IT concerns within the federal government, a shortage of workers is not a barrier to the administration's e-government plans, IT czar Mark Forman said last week.
IRS employees take home first innovator awards
Adobe Systems Inc. inaugurated its Innovators in eGovernment award program last month at FOSE 2002 in Washington by honoring two IRS employees, Paul A. Showalter and John R. Wood.
Government, industry talk about protecting critical IT
Federal and industry experts discussed the foundation of IT security earlier this month at a conference hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology at its main campus in Gaithersburg, Md.
Fingerprint readers prove reliable at log-in
Biometric vendors are doing their best to supplant password security, but GCN Lab tests indicate they're not quite ready yet. Some developers of biometric products have continued to improve already good products, but others need to go back to the drawing board.
Keys to access
A key phrase in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 orders employers to 'make reasonable accommodations' for disabled employees and others.
Sprint protests $450 million DREN contract
Sprint Communications Corp. filed a protest April 12 with the General Accounting Office over last week's award of the Defense Research and Engineering Network contract to WorldCom Inc.
Calendar
May 7-9. Advances in C4ISR Architecture Framework Implementation. Seminar. Fairfax, Va. Contact the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association; Web: <a href="http://www.afcea.org/education/ coruse/504.htm">www.afcea.org/education/coruse/504.htm</a>.
FEDERAL CONTRACT LAW
'But in all contracts, if one party fails to perform his share of the compact, is not the other virtually absolved from his liability? Who is there who will not answer in the affirmative?' 'Herman Melville in Typee, 1846
GAO official: Take the long view
With the focus of President Bush's proposed 2003 budget on performance, agencies' IT capital planning and investment managers will play a much larger role in determining how money is allocated.
INCOMING
Titan Corp. of San Diego won a Special Operations Command contract potentially worth $189.4 million over nine years.
DISA says 'Encore' to successful purchase process
The Defense Information Systems Agency, designating its Defense Enterprise Integration Services II contract a success, is continuing the $3 billion purchasing vehicle, which had been set to expire July 1.
DOD sets plan for financial system
The Defense Department is designing a financial and accounting systems architecture and expects the Defense Fi-nance and Accounting Service to approve it this month.
Army will expand access to its AKO portal
The Army's computer-based training program has attracted steady interest for years. But when the service recently announced a training initiative on the front page of the Army Knowledge Online portal, 20,000 people signed up in one week.
Take a RISC'or Pentium'on an IntelliStation system
Four new IntelliStations from IBM Corp. have different processor architectures'one RISC and three Intel Pentium'but the same brand name.
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