Tips for steering clear of defeat
With 13 years' experience overseeing government IT projects, Alisoun Moore, CIO of Montgomery County, Md., has seen her share of successes, as well as projects that crash and burn. Moore, the former CIO of Maryland, outlines six ways to prevent IT project meltdown.
BLS steps up to software management tool
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has bought 250 copies of a software project management tool, processMax2, from Pragma Systems Corp. of Reston, Va., to move up to the second level of the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model.
Navy awards $597 million engineering pact to SAIC
The Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command will get engineering and integration support under a $597 million contract awarded yesterday to a team of contractors led by Science Applications International Corp.
EDITORIAL
Who is responsible when IT projects go south, wasting hundreds of thousands or millions of public dollars?
Instant messaging boosts service at Texas call center
'Thanks for calling, please hold.' Eight minutes of the greatest hits of Muzak later, and most callers are ready to scream, if not hang up.
Va. DOT getting smarter about congestion
Researchers in the Old Dominion have adopted new mobile traffic analysis technology to reduce the economic waste and pollution caused by traffic tangles.
POWER USER
As prices plunge for personal digital assistant devices, agencies are starting to buy in. PDAs can be fantastic tools, and I myself carry one everywhere, but I'm acutely aware that they're a first-class security headache.
Barahmi takes an enterprise approach
When Kim Barahmi, Florida's acting CIO, went in front of the Legislature to advocate a plan for consolidating the state's IT programs under the State Technology Office, she spoke from experience.
Pennsylvania State Police upgrade to get better data, communications
Pennsylvania State Police officers soon will enjoy dramatically expanded access to criminal data and communications as they bid farewell to obsolete technology. For 30 years, the department has relied on dumb terminals with green screens linked to a mainframe system that requires specific codes to write reports, check criminal history or perform other functions.
System makes maximum use of space
The V960 Shared Virtual Array Disk System from Storage Technology Corp. holds 170G to 4.3T of data with full device-level virtualization.
CYBER EYE
Novell Inc. in August issued a patch for what it called a 'security issue' in its GroupWise 5.5 Enhancement Pack and GroupWise 6 e-mail and collaboration software. The company advised all users to install Padlock Fix immediately but did not say what it fixed.
Editorial Cartoon
Government employees make up the backbone of public service operations. Recruiting them, retaining them, paying them, providing benefits and managing the work force requires large-scale and secure systems.
Balancing Act
Industrialized New Jersey and mostly rural Kentucky separately have found an objective way to better manage the conflicts between business development and the environment.
CIO OUTLOOK
The horrific events of Sept. 11 continue to affect us all. I was born in New York City and lived for 30 years in northern Virginia; I have personal ties to this disaster. Now my professional world as a state CIO is being tested.
New product speeds OFAC data to subscribers
A Boston data integration company has introduced software that matches the Treasury Department's list of terrorist suspects against the customer's own records.
House sees e-mail spike
Disrupted postal service to Congress and other branches of the government has prompted a spike in e-mail traffic, but federal agencies said it is too early to tell if anthrax attacks through the mail were pushing the public to use online services instead.
Navy site posts Web warnings
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is using the Internet to inform Navy employees about the risks the Web poses to their children.
INS awards two STARS orders
The Immigration and Naturalization Service awarded Computer Sciences Corp. two task orders worth $48 million to provide IT support for the agency's Service Technology Alliance Resources program.
Landings find common ground
The Air Force and the Federal Aviation Administration are testing separate but interoperable satellite-based landing guidance systems based on the Global Positioning System.
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