IRS faces its chief nemesis: tape files
The IRS is about to bite into the toughest piece of its modernization yet: replacing its decades-old Master File system.
SSA to offer its pamphlets online
The Social Security Administration plans to start an online service for ordering free pamphlets and forms from its three warehouses.
Vendors power down hot PCs
Gateway Inc. and other PC makers have reacted promptly to President Bush's call for more energy-efficient appliances by adding LCDs and additional heat ducting to new 2-GHz desktop computers.
A-76 process stalls at Lackland
The Air Force decided last month to suspend future outsourcing initiatives under OMB Circular A-76 within the Air Education and Training Command until a panel can meet to devise an acquisition strategy.
Air Force sets final plans for enterprise portal
MONTGOMERY, Ala.'The Air Force was set late last week to award a contract for a portal that will consolidate hundreds of legacy systems at 110 bases into a single point of access.
Hacker vs. hacker: a war over a word
When someone initiates a virus, defaces a Web page, breaks into a system or commits another computer crime, everyone knows what to call the perpetrator: a hacker.
PKI solves access headaches for FEMA
The Federal Emergency Management Agency puts a lot of information on its Web site, at <a href="http://www.fema.gov">www.fema.gov</a>.
Federal energy managers claim 11 percent cut
Agency employees across the country tuned in via the Web last month to hear Federal Energy Management Program officials describe ways they have cut electricity consumption in federal buildings in California.
House plans to beef up its network backbone
The federal surplus may be shrinking, but members of Congress will soon have an abundance of bandwidth over which to argue about it.
Marine brass press for inclusion in NMCI
The Marine Corps stands behind the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet and plans to make the transition to the new enterprise infrastructure next year, the Corps commandant says.
Defense will create a new spectrum post
The Defense Department will create the post of assistant deputy chief information officer for spectrum management to help the department as it wrangles with industry over radio frequency use for wireless applications.
White House changes its site for the better
Responding to widespread criticism that it had a mediocre Web site, the White House relaunched <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov">www.whitehouse.gov</a> just before the Labor Day weekend.
NMCI will undergo independent tests
The Navy can proceed on its massive Navy-Marine Corps Intranet outsourcing project without immediate, rigorous weapons system testing, according to a memorandum signed by Defense Department officials earlier this week.
IRS launches online payment for individuals
The IRS on Thursday went live with a Web payment system for 1040 and quarterly taxpayers.
Horn says this is his last term in the House
Rep. Steve Horn, a watchdog of federal information technology efforts, announced plans last week to retire from the House of Representatives.
PACKET RAT
With an ex-dot-bomber now piloting the Rat's particular plane of hell, the wired one did what any self-respecting federal rodent would do: Request a week's leave.
UNSCRAMBLE
WEBSPEAK
DID YOU HEAR
Treasured trash. Interior Secretary Gale Norton last month stripped a 79-million-cubic-yard municipal dump in Fresno, Calif., of its new designation as a national historic landmark, the Associated Press reported. Why? Turns out the Environmental Protection Agency had earlier declared the dump a Superfund site.
VA hospitals test single sign-ons
Veterans Affairs hospitals in Oakland, Calif., Seattle and Silver Spring, Md., are testing the National Institute of Standards and Technology's new Enterprise Single Sign-on Facility software and plan to deploy it to all 170 VA hospitals by month's end.
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