Baseline PCs
At first glance, the 600- or 800-MHz Pentium III PCs that are plentiful in today's market look fast and powerful enough to run the standard office applications used in most government offices. And they are'for now.
GAO declares INS systems unreliable
JUNE 5—The Immigration and Naturalization Service does not know how long it takes to process aliens' applications because its systems contain unreliable data, the General Accounting Office said today in a report.
FCC chairman wants new technologies and new hires
JUNE 5—Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell today promised a more tech-savvy FCC that will encourage emerging communications technologies such as broadband access.
Unemployment Compensation
Buddy, can you spare a job? That's the tune many workers are singing this year, as companies lay off hundreds of thousands of employees.
IBM wants to make servers self-managing
Developing a 'living, breathing server' is the goal of IBM Corp.'s Project eLiza.
COUNTY LINES
'Houston, we have a problem.' That's what users of the Harris County, Texas, Justice Information Management System said before the county traded in JIMS' sluggish screen-scraper technology for ConnectStar middleware from Computer Corporation of America of Framingham, Mass.
Dispute halts $60m IT project in Oregon
Oregon has halted a $60 million retirement system project after costs more than doubled and an administrative review found an unacceptable risk of failure.
Satellites follow the fleet
Former U.S. Air Force pilot and Desert Storm veteran Arby Creach uses his electronic warfare experience to bring satellite technology down to Earth in Florida school buses.
N.Y. child welfare system is in hot water, out of funding
New York's Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS) is late, over budget and will cost another $53.7 million to meet federal government standards, according to a report by Maximus Inc. of McLean, Va.
Patent and Trademark Office announces new CIO
JUNE 5'The Patent and Trademark Office has named Douglas Bourgeois to take over as chief information officer, filling the post left vacant when Dennis Shaw resigned in September.
Bush prolongs the life of President's Information Technology Advisory Committee
JUNE 5—President Bush last week gave the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee a two-year reprieve from termination.
VA's Gary Krump elected Procurement Executives Council vice chairman
JUNE 5—Gary J. Krump is the new vice chairman of the Procurement Executives Council.
Confusion Reigns With Disability Regs
Information technology companies are uncertain whether they can meet a June 25 deadline that says all electronic and IT products they sell to the U.S. government must be accessible to people with disabilities.
IRS gets $128 million for modernization
JUNE 4—Congress has released $128 million in fiscal 2001 funds for the IRS' modernization efforts.
Research zeroes in on handling large data sets
REDONDO BEACH, Calif.'Finding ways to deal with large data sets, archives and collections is attracting government research dollars.
Future soldiers may wear their computers
JUNE 4—At the International Conference on Wearable Computing last week in Vienna, Va., military officials expressed cautious enthusiasm about sending soldiers into battle wearing their computers.
FirstGov faces 1st birthday short on funds
A year after the government began work on a portal to open a citizen-centric door to 30 million Web pages, FirstGov's idealistic team finds itself scraping up money to prop that door open.
E-learning catches on
Online training has won the hearts and minds of practically every agency. Seeing many upsides and few downsides, agencies are wasting no time getting onboard.
Agencies map the road to sharing patient information
The Indian Health Service and the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments are working on a transition plan to establish which of the three agencies will lead the Government Computer-Based Patient Record project.
USDA bureau gets a firm grip on its WAN
The Food Safety and Inspection Service has installed network monitoring software that lets it track the service's WAN activities nationwide.
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