CIO Council makes CD guide for agencies
The CIO Council's Knowledge Management Working Group earlier this month released a CD-ROM designed to help agencies use and understand knowledge management.
Cray, Dell will build custom Linux clusters
Cray Inc. will build and sell custom Linux server clusters using Dell Computer Corp.'s PowerEdge servers and storage systems.
Rep. Davis calls on OPM to give more bonuses
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) is urging the Office of Personnel Management to use pay-for-performance bonuses to help with the government's looming personnel crisis, especially as it affects IT workers.
FTC breaks up chain-letter spammers
The Federal Trade Commission launched an attack on purveyors of deceptive spam, announcing settlements with and injunctions against seven defendants who confessed to spamming consumers with chain letters aimed at cheating them out of cash.
Survival of the Fittest
High-profile federal systems projects got a bad name in the early 1990s.
How to Manage It
The term project derailment took on a whole new meaning Sept. 11. The future of some agency modernization projects hinged on team leaders' ability to manage fallout from the tragedy.
How to Buy It
The conventional wisdom at some agencies is that contracting is done by the contracting folks, planning by the planning and program folks, and IT by the techies.
How to Fund It
The going can get tough for a modernization project when discussions turn to funding. That's when projects are put into competition with others; the government only has so much money to go around.
How to Sell It
Winning the buy-in battle might not be everything in the modernization effort. It might be the only thing.
How to Plan It
Without meticulous planning, a modernization effort can become a house of cards. A shakily constructed foundation risks the collapse of the entire edifice.
Path to the future? One feat in front of the other
You've made the decision to modernize your systems. No doubt getting to that point took a lot of time, analysis and soul searching. Now, where do you go from here?
Editorial Cartoon
Compare your pay with the top salaries of selected IT professionals in the U.S. for 2002, gathered by RHI Consulting, a division of Robert Half International Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif.
ANOTHER VIEW
You can't manage what you can't measure. Federal agencies and Congress understand many of the measurable steps of modernizing IT infrastructures to enable e-government. But one component still eludes measurability and therefore better management, namely the people'or human capital'component.
EDITORIAL
Commercial computers date back to just after World War II. Yet job titles such as chief technology officer and CIO have only recently entered the management vocabulary.
Agency gets set to launch eNASA
NASA's new administrator, Sean O'Keefe, has been on the job only two months, but the space agency's IT projects already bear his signature, insiders say.
Notebooks stake claim to desktop real estate
The portable PC started out luggable'20 pounds or more'and took more than a decade to shrink to its present 5- to 7 pound weight. Because portables used many of the same components as desktop systems, their portability came at a cost in performance.
OS Update
No matter what your operating system of choice, your choice just got better.
Internaut: Some federal sites walk on the wild side
One great thing about the Web is the way you stumble across new things while looking up other things. Here are some tidbits I recently found while doing unrelated research.
Power User: Less could be more
Remember the BeOS operating system? It's fast, stable and a multimedia user's dream. Unfortunately, it never became much more than a dream because its low sales limited the development of hardware drivers.
EPA portal is data's common ground
The Environmental Protection Agency will seek proposals under a $100 million, 7-year task order to support the Central Data Exchange, a Web portal and network for transmitting data between the agency and outside organizations.
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