Bush requests an extra $27b for security
The administration hopes to use technology to beef up border security in the final six months of fiscal 2002.
Trail Bosses to ride back out of the sunset?
Remember the General Services Administration's Trail Boss program? It trained thousands of program managers in the finer points of acquisition. After a spate of procurement reforms in the mid-1990s, it faded away in 2000.
Tool takes ship temp
The Navy is using handheld Psion 5mx computers from Psion Teklogix Inc. of Mississauga, Ontario, to reduce the need for sailor 'rovers' to visit dozens of thermometers in the hottest work areas of destroyers and amphibious vessels.
Coding error hits W-2s at USDA center
The Agriculture Department's National Finance Center in New Orleans had to reissue tens of thousands of W-2 statements earlier this year because a software coding change miscalculated individuals' incomes.
Vance Hitch joins Justice as new CIO
Attorney General John Ashcroft has named Vance Hitch as Justice Department CIO.
IT takes the floor at FOSE
Panel discussions at FOSE covered topics from security to customer relationship management. Right: the Government Keynote Panel'with speakers from the CIO, CFO, Procurement Executives and Human Resources Management councils'kicks off one of the sessions.
Packet Rat: Plague of inefficiencies doesn't infect the Rat
The wired one was way overdue for a performance review'thanks to the inexplicable attrition rate of his managers'when his boss finally invited him to lunch at the Old Post Office.
CROSSWORD
Virus/Antivirus
DID YOU HEAR
Annapurna: just another day at the office.</b> Mountaineer Ed Viesturs is using Microsoft Office XP in his attempt to scale the 27,000-foot Himalayas peak Annapurna next month. No kidding. He keeps the expedition's gear inventory in Excel, maintains his Web site with FrontPage, makes presentations in PowerPoint and exchanges e-mail in Outlook.
Calendar
April 29-May 2. Software Technology Conference 2002. Salt Lake City. Contact STC 2002; Web: <a href="http://www.stc-online.org">www.stc-online.org</a>; phone: 435-797-0047.
Of the People: Agencies must cooperate for e-gov to succeed
Slowly but surely, momentum continues to build for e-government, the steady transformation of government, to use an already-overused expression, from bricks and mortar to clicks and mortar.
Tiny but also capable: the SyncMaster 151MP
The 7.6-pound Samsung SyncMaster 151MP LCD goes where PC monitors have seldom gone before: on the road. For example, it can serve as a portable TV as well as for high-definition presentations from a disk, when connected to a host's PC.
The i90c phone offers two-way radio backup
Wireless phones are great'if the calls go through. The Motorola i90c phone, using Nextel Communications Inc.'s network, has a backup method for getting through.
DiskOnKey turns on USB storage
It's a paradox: Storage devices are getting smaller but holding more.
State Point Plus states the facts'big and little
Westinghouse Electric Co. slams the door on network vulnerabilities with its State Point Plus integrity control suite.
Wireless choices grow
It's a paradox: Just as wireless networking based on one of the IEEE 802.11 standards should be hitting its stride in government agencies, a number of challenges are nipping at its heels.
INCOMING
Software deal. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center has awarded a $30 million contract to Computer Sciences Corp. to provide software engineering support for the Navy Training Management and Planning System.
Army, DARPA award contract for combat program
The Army has chosen two industry giants to boost its high-tech fighting power and develop the Future Combat Systems program.
NMCI will heed users' opinions
Users of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet not only will soon get to voice their opinions of the system, but their input also will have a measurable effect on the program's lead contractor.
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