FEDERAL CONTRACT LAW
The Service Contract Act of 1965 (SCA) requires government contractors to pay their nonexempt employees working on service contracts no less than the prevailing wage and fringe benefit rates applicable in the locale where the work is performed. Unionized work forces must be paid consistent with any applicable collective bargaining agreement.
Bigger hurdles await IRS plan
The IRS modernization plan is headed in the right direction, but the agency is just now getting to the hard part, according to Larry Levitan, chairman of the IRS Oversight Board.
Notebooks are ready for double duty
Not long ago, notebook PCs that could double as desktop systems were hard to find for less than $4,000. For most notebooks, you would have had to add portable hard drives or optical drives to boost limited storage capacities.
UPSes power up to meet network load
Uninterruptible power systems in the last decade have matured from glorified car batteries to sophisticated cornerstones for network reliability.
INCOMING
The Standard Army Management Information Systems Headquarters awarded two seven-year blanket purchasing agreements potentially worth $277 million to KPMG LLP of New York and Titan Systems Corp. of San Diego.
Navy e-business operations office is looking for a few good ideas
The Navy is looking for e-business projects to fund during fiscal 2002 that will help improve readiness, business processes and quality of life for its servicepeople.
Navy staff moves out while Pentagon rebuilds
About 1,000 Navy personnel displaced after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon have been moved to an office in Arlington, Va.
VA preps a new enterprise architecture
The Veterans Affairs Department is ready to roll out its One VA Enterprise Architecture, one of the department's top five priorities under John A. Gauss, the new assistant secretary for information and technology, and CIO.
IT companies pitch in with relief efforts
Last month, technology vendors joined the front lines of disaster relief, giving away products and services to agencies and organizations responding to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
INTERNAUT
The United States has other kinds of attacks to worry about these days, but ongoing attacks against government Web servers continue to be a top concern.
Handheld computers chat at DEMOmobile
On the heels of the 2-GHz Pentium 4 microprocessor, Intel Corp. is readying a mobile version for notebook PCs in the first half of next year.
POWER USER
Anyone can use a fire extinguisher, but only trained personnel should use medical equipment. True?
Streams of Data
A Geological Survey database development group in the Midwest believes strongly in off-the-shelf software tools.
Editorial Cartoon
President Bush last month named Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge as Director of Homeland Security. Ridge will coordinate the efforts of 40 agencies during emergencies.
ANOTHER VIEW
Over the past several years, information technology soothsayers have preached about the transformational effects of IT on federal agency programs. Under the rubric of electronic government, many agencies have embarked on large IT initiatives to achieve these promised benefits.
EDITORIAL
You know when you've been nailed by a red-light camera. It happened to me one evening at dusk when I was rushing my son to an event and I entered an intersection on yellow (I thought). A flash illuminated the car, and on the return trip I spotted the glass bubble suspended over the intersection.
CSC will manage State's overseas telecom
The State Department's Diplomatic Telecommunications Services Program Office will get IT services and support through a task order awarded this week to Computer Sciences Corp.
Bush forming panel of science, technology advisers
President Bush yesterday signed an executive order creating the latest incarnation of the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, a group made up almost entirely of private industry and academic advisers.
Expansion slot adds a lot to Palm's m505
You'll have the blues on the new m505 Palm personal digital assistant, and the reds, too. Its thin-film-transistor display can show up to 65,000 colors.
COUNTY LINES
The Contra Costa County Clerk'Recorder's Office keeps track of the milestones of its 930,000 county residents' lives, from birth to death and everything in between: marriage, court proceedings and property transactions.
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