Army simulations gain speed with move to Linux
The Army's Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command has found a home for its advanced simulation software, moving it to Linux following the obsolescence of its VAX systems.
Committee: Cut jobs, raise salaries
Thousands of Pentagon acquisition workers could lose their jobs if a provision passed by a key House committee is approved by Congress this fall.
GovWorks touts telecom service
GovWorks, a franchise fund acquisition center run by the Interior Department, plans to offer telecommunications services to agencies this fall.
New encryption product locks down IP calls
SecurePhone, an IP telephony encryption product from Information Security Corp. of Deerfield, Ill., secures voice communications from a PC over the Internet or private networks.
POWER USER
You wouldn't think I'd have trouble finding weather information. There's weather info to be found everywhere, from outside my own window to the local TV news and the newspaper. There's even a cable channel devoted to the weather.
INTERNAUT
There's a lesson here somewhere. The General Accounting Office has said the Commerce Department's computer networks are unsafe, with compromised security at several levels [<a href="http://www.gcn.com/20_23/news/16802-1.html">GCN, Aug. 13, Page 9</a>].
Landlord GSA posts information on federal properties for sale and lease
The General Services Administration, the nation's largest landlord, has established an online database of 8,000 government-owned or -leased properties.
Model Builder
To show the Office of Management and Budget what they're doing and how much it costs taxpayers, several agencies use a PC suite that pulls together their business processes into a model of their enterprise architectures.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
In the column 'Federal job seekers often get a bad impression' [<a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol20_no19/editopinion/4592-1.html">GCN, July 16, Page 32</a>], Walt Houser hit the nail right on the head. As a retiring member of the military soon to enter the civilian job market, I have dealt with both private-sector and government employment procedures, and the contrast is striking.
EDITORIAL
Fundamentally, I like Rep. Tom Davis' idea of information technology types in government and industry swapping jobs.
Creative contracting turns wheels at Treasury, deputy CIO says
A decisive board of information technology chiefs and other officials from Treasury Department bureaus is voting new initiatives up or down and deciding how to spend IT money, deputy chief information officer Mayi Canales said today at a symposium in Washington.
FAA lets fly with version of STARS
The Federal Aviation Administration this summer has been getting its billion-dollar, five-year-old Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System program off the ground.
INTERVIEW: Vice Adm. Richard Mayo, the Navy's IT frontiersman
Vice Adm. Richard Mayo, a native of Falls Church, Va., grew up not far from Ground Zero, the Pentagon.
Energy, IBM ink R&D agreement on genome supercomputing
The Energy Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has signed a one-year cooperative research and development agreement with IBM Corp. to develop new techniques for studying genes and proteins with high-performance computers.
State will unveil upgraded Web site next month
The State Department will give Web site users a new look by the end of next month, as it moves into the last phase of one of its largest Web development projects ever.
CIO Council to begin mentoring program
The administration is continuing its quest to find solutions to the federal information technology work force crisis.
SAMHSA site tells how to keep offices drug free
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has launched a Web site to help agencies and companies keep their workplaces free of drug abuse.
Who's owner of FirstGov database? Not Uncle Sam
Millionaire philanthropist Eric Brewer owns the FirstGov database of federal Web sites'and in 2003, he'll take it back.
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