No Junk
Like most mass mailers, the Patent and Trademark Office doesn't want to waste time and money sending multiple envelopes to customers.
ANOTHER VIEW
President Bush had to select his cabinet members at a compressed pace because of delays stemming from the election protest.
EDITORIAL
Outsourcing, particularly seat management, is a controversial topic because it invokes changes in ownership, power, jobs, budgets and culture.
For feds, upgrading PCs is a never-ending task
At the Army Corps of Engineers' district office in Sacramento, Calif., upgrading desktop PCs for the office's 1,100 users is pretty much an ongoing process.
INTERVIEW: Arthur Money, former DOD systems chief
In his three years as the Defense Department's top systems chief, Arthur Money oversaw changes in procurement, an emphasis on information warfare, preparations for year 2000 and a continuing push toward joint systems. He spoke with GCN shortly before stepping down April 6 as DOD's chief information officer.
OF THE PEOPLE
At a training session on management a few years back, class members and the instructor spent the better part of two hours brainstorming the characteristics of good and bad managers. On the left side of the board, the instructor chalked up positive traits such as honesty, trustworthiness, fairness, and being organized, flexible, competent and compassionate.
GSA releases FAR rules for Section 508
APRIL 26—The General Services Administration has released the final Federal Acquisition Regulation guidelines for making acquisitions comply with Section 508.
Is mobile gear friend or foe?
Wireless phones, notebook PCs and handheld computers have made many federal employees accessible and on-call at anytime and from almost anywhere.
FirstGov looks to e-government fund for financing
APRIL 26—The FirstGov government portal is looking to the $100 million electronic-government fund President Bush proposed in the fiscal 2002 budget to finance the federal government's Web portal.
Web tools make an art of building your pages
Professional Web design and development tools these days must support not only Hypertext Markup Language but also Extensible Markup Language, Dynamic HTML, JavaScript, Visual Basic Script, Java applets and streaming multimedia.
Protocols give VPNs their rights of passage
A typical virtual private network has gateways at both ends of a public network. A variety of products, such as VPN access servers, VPN routers and even computers loaded with VPN client software, can act as the gateways.
VPNs by the numbers
The market is hot for virtual private network products, with a wide assortment of high- and low-end hardware and software that make it easy to build a VPN.
Defense mappers take their work to school
To encourage would-be cartographers and geographers, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency and NASA are using the Web to attract young visitors.
Prime program helps depots save time, money
Launched in 1997, the Defense Supply Center'Philadelphia's Prime Vendor Program has recently been gaining favor as it becomes an electronic-government success story.
DISA official: Users should be accountable for security
APRIL 25—Military personnel who fail to follow protocol in protecting Defense Department systems from intrusion should be held accountable for threatening the entire network, a Defense official said yesterday.
SSA using digital certificates for wage reporting
APRIL 25—After completing a public-key infrastructure pilot last year, the Social Security Administration is using digital certificates for online wage reporting. This marks SSA's first service using PKI.
SSA awards $32m PC contract to Compaq
APRIL 24—Compaq Computer Corp. will replace nearly one-third of the Social Security Administration's PCs in the next five months under a contract valued at more than $32 million, the company said.
Team at Education will tackle financial abuses
APRIL 24—The Education Department has appointed eight people to a newly created Management Improvement Team to root out financial abuse and fraud of the department's assets identified by the inspector general.
Oregon freezes $60 million project in face of cost overrun
APRIL 23—Oregon this month halted a $60 million retirement system project after costs more than doubled and an administrative review found an unacceptable risk of failure.
NASA's mission control gets updated workstations
APRIL 23—The mission control room at NASA's Johnson Space Center is getting 475 new workstations for operating the space shuttle and the International Space Station.
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