VA's thin clients cover a lot of territory
The Veterans Affairs Department has begun installing about 2,000 thin-client terminals at eight medical facilities in the Pacific Northwest.
Cradle to Grave
The Social Security Administration is developing an electronic alternative to first-class mail for gathering sensitive information from state agencies.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Federal Highway Administration is trying to sell seat management to its field offices as something that will save money and free up information technology specialists to work on more important tasks.
EDITORIAL
On my typical suburban street, it seems every soccer mom or dad who whooshes by in a shiny SUV is yakking into a cell phone. The couple next door begins yukking it up before they back out of the garage.
Department is building on LAN plan
The Herbert Clark Hoover Building, which houses Commerce Department headquarters, soon will be wired for more than sound.
INTERVIEW: Lothar Harris, DOD's tech transfer top dog
Lothar Harris, who spent 20 years in the Air Force, now is deputy director for policy automation in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense Policy.
New IT chief outlines IRS' latest modernization plans
JUNE 28—John C. Reece, the IRS' new chief information officer, is taking over the agency's modernization effort like a man on a mission.
PTO wins work-at-home award from Washington-area governments
JUNE 28—The Patent and Trademark Office yesterday received the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments' telework award for 2001. COG annually recognizes employers that voluntarily encourage telecommuting to reduce the area's road congestion and pollution.
DISA inks deal for switch to StarOffice
JUNE 27—The Defense Information Systems Agency's new 25,000-seat license for Sun Microsystems Inc.'s StarOffice won't affect Defense Department use of the more popular Microsoft Office, a DISA spokeswoman said.
Navy says NMCI will boost system defenses
JUNE 27—Navy officials expect the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet to improve protection against cyberattacks by implementing a layered systems defense, a project official said.
Navy says NMCI will boost system defenses
JUNE 27'Navy officials expect the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet to improve protection against cyberattacks by implementing a layered systems defense, a project official said.
Editorial Cartoon
In a recent letter to GCN's editor, a federal employee suggested that his federal perks far outweighed the salary differential between his job and a comparable industry post.
Etter to leave DOD tech post; Bush nominates astronaut as successor
JUNE 27—Delores Etter, Defense deputy undersecretary for science and technology, will leave in mid-July to become a professor of electrical engineering at the Naval Academy.
GSA relaunches FirstGov
JUNE 26—The FirstGov portal now has the capability to search and link to 16 million Web pages from 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Flyzik receives FGIPC award
JUNE 26—The Federation of Government Information Processing Councils last night presented the John J. Franke award to James Flyzik, acting deputy secretary for management and chief information officer at the Treasury Department.
Administration taps Energy lab chief to head OSTP
JUNE 26—President Bush today plans to nominate John H. Marburger III, director of the Energy Department's Brookhaven National Laboratory, to head the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Agencies must consolidate IT, CIOs say
JUNE 26—Federal agencies, asked to do more with less funding, have adopted a strategy of consolidating operations and infrastructure, a panel of deputy chief information officers said today.
Compaq dumps Alpha, consolidates on Itanium processor
JUNE 26—Over the next few years, Compaq Computer Corp. will merge its 64-bit Alpha processor technology into Intel Corp.'s new line of 64-bit Itanium processors, Compaq and Intel officials announced yesterday.
GSA's Emory Miller is new president of AFFIRM
JUNE 25—The Association for Federal Information Resource Management met for a gala luncheon last week at the Willard Inter-Continental Hotel in Washington to give out seven leadership awards and elect a new president.
Investigative frontier: Digital polygraphs ease fears'a bit
President Richard M. Nixon once said on the infamous White House tapes, 'I don't know anything about lie detectors other than they scare the hell out of people.'
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