Illinois data center posts virtual guard
The Illinois Legislative Information System, a data fortress protected by electronic moats and drawbridges, had a chink in its armor until recently.
CYBER EYE
GCN's network held up just fine during the early hours of the Goner worm's December onslaught. Although antivirus vendors had not yet updated their signature files, the firewall did its job of stripping executable attachments and other files with troublesome extensions from incoming e-mail.
Smart Spaces
Pervasive-computing systems could make conference rooms brainy, according to the Smart Space Laboratory researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Army secretary and chief of staff recently recognized the Dell Computer Corp. team for helping the Pentagon restore its IT infrastructure damaged in the Sept. 11 attacks. For all of us at Dell, it is a great honor to support U.S. armed forces.
EDITORIAL
The General Services Administration is closing in on selection of a new search engine vendor for the FirstGov Web site.
INTERVIEW: Ronnie I. Gerstein, DISA's brainpower chief
Ronnie I. Gerstein spent 17 years as a civilian Army employee working to make IT accessible to people with disabilities. In December 2000, Gerstein left the Army to join the Defense Information Systems Agency as the chief of knowledge management.
Procurement apps will contain more data integration functions
American Management Systems Inc. will embed a data integration platform into several of its enterprise procurement applications for government agencies.
Manage existing bandwidth better, panel says
Some federal officials are skeptical about the wireless industry's pressure on the government to relinquish bandwidth. At the ComNet trade show yesterday in Washington, Andrew Levin, Democratic counsel to the House Commerce Committee, said third-generation wireless applications 'are not here yet. It's not necessarily true that 'if you build it, they will come'.'
OPM looks for budget help on e-gov projects
The Office of Personnel Management promises it can complete its five <br>e-government initiatives within 18 to 24 months if the Office of Management and Budget can find the agency more money from this year's IT budget.
OFPP's Styles: Competition will improve agency management
President Bush's commitment to the public-private competition of more than 425,000 federal jobs is part of an overall plan to improve management, an administration official said yesterday.
Course offers training for enterprise architects
How a federal agency builds up its enterprise architecture has always been something of a mystery, and sometimes an accident. A 10-week Federal Enterprise Architecture Certificate course in Arlington, Va., sponsored by California State University at Los Angeles, will show feds how to define an architecture, write a statement of work, evaluate tools and build a model.
XML consolidates government, McDonough says
The Extensible Markup Language has become a universal format, wrote Francis A. McDonough, deputy associate administrator of the General Services Administration, in a report released yesterday.
Army revises its service contracting rules
The Army last week eased its fairly new restrictions on services contracts.
Army taps Signal for tech services
The Army has hired Signal Corp. to provide knowledge management and technical support to the Office of the Director of Information Systems for Command, Control, Communications and Computers.
Congressional Web sites come up short, study says
Most congressional Web sites still fail to meet the needs of constituents, the Congress Online Project of Washington reported yesterday.
Army expands online education effort
Soldiers at two Army bases in Colorado and Washington next month will be able to enroll in online courses at 23 colleges, bringing to five the number of bases using the eArmyU learning portal.
The week's top stories for Jan. 21 through Jan. 25
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Commerce posts contracting guide for agencies
To help agencies prepare to meet Bush administration performance goals, a team of federal procurement executives led by the Commerce Department is putting a comprehensive guide to performance-based contracting on the Web.
DOD kicks off a departmentwide HR systems project
The Defense Department is moving forward with the development of a payroll and personnel system for the military's active and reserve units that will replace dozens of legacy systems.
Cancer institute consolidates Web postings
The National Cancer Institute today launched a redesigned Web site at <a href="http://cancer.gov">cancer.gov</a>, proclaiming it a one-stop resource for information about cancer.
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