LexisNexis intranet software will provide agency-specific content
JUNE 15—LexisNexis, an information provider in Dayton, Ohio, is customizing its content and changing the way federal agencies can search for information from the company's databases through a Library of Congress gateway, FedLink.
Marines name NMCI manager
JUNE 15—A Marine Corps reservist who works as PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc.'s Washington marketing and sales manager will head up the Marine side of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.
GSA's local phone service program bogged down
JUNE 15—The General Services Administration's Metropolitan Area Acquisition program is saving the government $1 million a month through more competitive prices for local phone service. But start-up delays are jeopardizing the targeted savings of $1.1 billion over eight years, witnesses told a congressional panel Wednesday.
GPO to retrofit 30,000 archived Web pages
JUNE 15—The Government Printing Office has decided to retrofit 30,000 archived Web pages to comply with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998, even though the office is exempt as a congressional unit.
Defense, NAVAIR sign up with mySAP.com
JUNE 14—The Defense Department yesterday announced a blanket purchasing agreement with SAP Public Sector and Education Inc. of Washington for use of the mySAP.com platform.
How to build the office of the future today
The office of the future has arrived. Although rocket cars and android assistants have never made the scene, some government users do have lightning-fast networks and near-supercomputer work.
DSL gear is ready ' and waiting for a call
Will digital subscriber line service'DSL for short'become the small-office success it's touted as, or will it suffer the fate of other high-speed telephone company data services?
Army opens knowledge management portal, Adapa, for 1,700 service users
A knowledge management portal has made organizational data stored on individual PCs available to about 1,700 users.
Army posts grades for online students
The first 4,000 soldier students have completed their initial semester of college courses through the Army's University Access Online education portal, at <a href="http://www.earmyu.com">www.earmyu.com</a>, and can now download their grades.
Navy subs will test omnidirectional periscopes
The Navy is developing an omnidirectional viewing system to give submarine crews a 360-degree view of their surroundings.
In California's new system, all taxpayers are not alike
JUNE 14—The California Franchise Tax Board's new Accounts Receivable Collection System (ARCS) is open for business, officials of American Management Systems Inc. of Fairfax, Va., announced yesterday.
OPM posts first batch of HR data on the Internet
The Office of Personnel Management is moving statistics about 1.8 million federal civilian workers from a secure intranet to the Internet.
INTERNAUT
Government Web sites are starting to 'cache on,' and that's a good thing.
Retrofit gains certification for digital copier
A security retrofit for digital copiers from Sharp Electronics Corp. of Mahwah, N.J., has been certified under the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation.
DOD and DOT get 11th-hour help in making Web sites accessible
JUNE 13—With the federal Web site accessibility deadline looming July 27, the Navy and the Transportation Department have signed contracts for software that can make Web pages accessible in as little as two hours.
FBI awards Trilogy's second component
JUNE 13—The FBI has awarded a $10 million contract to Science Applications International Corp. to carry out the second half of its $300 million Trilogy modernization plan.
POWER USER
Although I tested beta versions of the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system some time ago, I didn't begin using Win 2000 Professional on a daily basis until fatal problems arose with one of my systems running Windows 98 [<a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol20_no4/tech-report/3669-1.html">GCN, Feb. 19, Page 24</a>].
Double Check
Before the release of state-by-state Census 2000 figures in March, demographers went through the numbers with the software equivalent of a fine-toothed comb.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
I agree with Ira Hobbs' conclusion in his Of The People column, 'Surprise: Pay alone won't recruit or retain IT workers' [<a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol20_no9/manager/4037-1.html">GCN, April 30, Page 45</a>]. Federal information technology workers want to be valued as people, as well as employees.
EDITORIAL
When it comes to the FTS 2001 program, Congress acts like Chicken Little and thinks the sky is falling.
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