DID YOU HEAR
One of the Web's racier ads appeared briefly last month on Microsoft Corp.'s Swiss site. Though the company soon yanked the ad, the W2Knews news group mirrored a 3.6M clip for the R-rated amusement of Windows 2000 users, who presumably have time on their hands now that they no longer face the blue screen of death so often.
Is the grass really greener in industry?
Rep. Tom Davis' idea to have federal information technology employees swap jobs temporarily with those in industry was the hot topic of debate at a recent hearing before Davis' House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement Policy (<a href="http://www.gcn.com/20_23/news/16804-1.html">see story, Page 10</a>).
People on the Move
Kay Ely, associate administrator for acquisition implementation at the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, is leaving to join the research and consulting firm Acquisition Solutions Inc. of Chantilly, Va.
Military movers migrating to Oracle financial system
The Military Traffic Management Command will replace its 1970s proprietary financials system with an Oracle Corp. system to handle accounting and financial management tasks.
NSF funds multisite supercomputing network
The National Science Foundation yesterday awarded $53 million to build the first multilocation supercomputing environment. The so-called teragrid will link multiple clusters of computers running Linux with a 40-Gbps optical network.
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August 21-23 Customer Relationship Management for Federal Agencies. Conference. Tampa, Fla. Contact Market Access International; phone: 703-807-2746; Web: <a href="http://marketaccess.org">marketaccess.org</a>.
FEDERAL CONTRACT LAW
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy has a new administrator, Angela Styles. She has set out her agenda in statements to Congress and in an interview with me.
Ready or not, wireless arrives at jet lab
Wireless technology came to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., piece by piece. Users implemented local wireless connections to go online while attending a conference or to handle e-mail while working away from a desktop PC.
Check sites for 508 with audit-edit tools
Agency webmasters are just beginning to stock their Section 508 tool kits with products to make their sites adhere to the accessibility standards.
District gives XML honors
Bryan Campbell sums up the future of school administration in three letters: XML, or Extensible Markup Language.
You can beat service denial attacks
It's not easy to defend a government Web server against distributed service denial attacks, but it's not impossible either.
Violence prevention program gets the ax
A successful information technology program in South Carolina to help prevent domestic violence has closed in the wake of a state budget crisis.
COUNTY LINES
County officials in Washington are testing a system that replaces the tedium, expense and delay of manually processing legal documents with secure digital technology.
Pentium 4 or Athlon?
It's PC shoot-out time again, and computer builders and buyers have a choice between machines built around Intel Corp.'s 1.7-GHz Pentium 4 processor and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s 1.4-GHz Athlon Thunderbird.
Fairfax County, Va., names Gibson its IT director
Wanda Gibson was named this week to be director of the Information Technology Department for Fairfax County, Va. Gibson moves into the position after spending the last two years as the county's chief technology architect.
INCOMING
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NMCI prime subs out management tasks
The lead contractor for the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet recently added storage resource management software and an electronic records management system to the $6.9 billion outsourcing contract.
GAO calls for Air Force to reverse A-76 decision
The General Accounting Office has recommended that the Air Force reverse its earlier decision and award an OMB Circular A-76 competition decision to DynCorp of Reston, Va., to handle operating support functions at Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Annex, Ala.
USGS tests net defense
Late last year, computer specialist Tom Kress noticed unusual activity on a server at the Geological Survey's Geologic Division in Reston, Va.
OS security benchmark can be downloaded free
The Center for Internet Security has released the first security benchmark for an operating system. It sets minimum configuration requirements for Sun Microsystems Solaris.
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