FTS maps local and long-distance crossover plans
JULY 2'Federal Technology Service executives met last week with telecommunications representatives to lay out the process for crossover between local and long-distance programs that could bring more competition into the federal telecom market late this summer.
IRS takes on a summer job: special tax refunds
The rush job of issuing one-time tax refunds this summer will not slow down the IRS' ongoing modernization efforts, the agency's chief information officer promises.
The checks are almost in the mail
Combining their systems know-how, four agencies are spending $115.8 million to pay out $40 billion in special tax refunds conceived of by President Bush and mandated by Congress.
Automating records a boon for BLM and users
An automated system lets the Bureau of Land Management bring to a user's desktop PC records that previously could only be read at the agency's headquarters in Washington.
CIO Reece will mobilize IRS modernization
NEW ORLEANS'If the IRS' modernization effort were a military operation, its new chief information officer, John C. Reece, would be kicking tail and taking names.
DISA signs license for StarOffice suite
The Defense Information Systems Agency's new 25,000-seat license for Sun Microsystems StarOffice won't affect Defense Department use of Microsoft Office, a DISA spokeswoman said last week.
House OKs $5.5b more for DOD
The House late last month approved $5.5 billion in fiscal 2001 supplemental funding sought by President Bush to make up for a budget shortfall at the Defense Department.
Census starts planning ahead for 2002 economic survey
With Census 2000 under its belt, the Census Bureau is getting ready for the next economic census in December 2002, chief information officer Richard W. Swartz said.
Will $50K kit convince agencies to buy into PKI?
A public-key infrastructure provider under the General Services Administration's Access Certificates for Electronic Services program next week will discount the price of a PKI kit to a flat $50,000.
FirstGov adds access to 50 states, D.C.
NEW ORLEANS'The General Services Administration last week relaunched its FirstGov portal with the added capability for searching and linking to 16 million pages from the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Defense releases DMS 3.0 for testing
The latest version of the Defense Message System prevents a user from sending a highly sensitive message to an unauthorized user and, if that fails, it stops an unauthorized user from opening the message.
Title 10 falls short, Lt. Gen. Kellogg says
Army Lt. Gen. Joseph K. Kellogg Jr. says too many hands are stirring the interoperability pot.
IT execs find they have to do more with less
Federal agencies must consolidate operations and infrastructure to meet the challenge of doing more with less funding, a panel of deputy chief information officers said last week.
U.S. has eight of the 10 fastest supercomputers
The U.S. government owns eight of the world's 10 fastest computers and uses them for modeling nuclear weapons, weather patterns and gasoline combustion.
New Mini PC has a wireless link to its CPU
The release of a new wearable notebook PC, the Panasonic Toughbook 07 Mini PC, follows close on the heels of the Xybernaut wearable PC [<a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol20_no16/tech-report/4477-1.html">GCN, June 25, Page 32</a>].
Bush sets assistive plan
A new Office of the 21st Century Workforce in the Labor Department will bring 'new opportunities for U.S. workers,' particularly in assistive and telecommuting technologies, President Bush said last month.
FEMA shuffles offices, creates IT service center
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced last month that it would reorganize. FEMA Director Joe M. Allbaugh said the current organization did not fit President Bush's streamlining goals.
Compaq dumps Alpha for the Itanium chip
Compaq Computer Corp. will phase out the 64-bit Alpha processor line that it inherited in 1998 from Digital Equipment Corp.
PACKET RAT
As the president of the United States was announcing a new Office of the 21st Century Workplace at the Labor Department to promote telecommuting, the Rat was running batteries of Section 508 compliance tests neglected by his acolytes.
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