Oracle: 'Drink the Kool-Aid' for e-success
Self-service is the model that works best when an organization puts its mission online, Oracle Corp. executive vice president Jeff Henly this month told an audience of federal and corporate officials in Washington.
Baker to CIOs: You need to be an appointee
Unless you are politically appointed, you don't stand much chance of being effective as a chief information officer, at least at the cabinet department level. So says Roger Baker, the Commerce Department's outgoing CIO.
New Gateway storage devices can stack up
Gateway Inc., a latecomer to the storage appliance market, has a new twist for rackless workgroups: 1.75-inch-high appliances that can stack together on dimpled rubber feet.
NASA gets new Alphas
By fall, the space shuttle and the International Space Station will have ground support from 475 new workstations at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Social Security buys 32,000 PCs from Compaq
Under a $32 million contract, Compaq Computer Corp. will replace nearly one third of the Social Security Administration's PCs in the next five months.
Put the needs of the folks in the seats first
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.'Seat management won't work unless an agency is committed to outsourcing its total desktop PC environment and putting the needs of its workers first, said Howard R. Norris, deputy director for information technology solutions at the Federal Technology Service's Chicago office.
FirstGov team says it needs more money
The FirstGov team is looking to the $100 million electronic-government fund in President Bush's fiscal 2002 budget proposal to finance the governmentwide Web portal.
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Some high-tech tools save time, and others suck it away.
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DID YOU HEAR
Laff riot? Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center users can no longer view the Web site <a href="http://www.space.com">www.space.com</a>, which is being filtered out as forbidden entertainment. Shucks, aside from a $7,000 virtual-reality race car, some gruesome science fiction and news about NASA's 'Vomit Comet' aircraft, <a href="http://www.space.com">www.space.com</a> looks no more entertaining than, say, <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov">www.whitehouse.gov</a>.
AFCEA chapter steps out for NIH charity
The Bethesda, Md., chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association is known for events such as informational breakfasts and other programs that address ongoing federal information technology issues.
PTO tech center receives library awards
Patent and Trademark Office information centers recently won two awards from the Federal Library and Information Center Committee, and two Defense Department employees shared the award for top librarian.
Federal sites score with business magazine
The Census Bureau and the Securities and Exchange Commission led a list of seven federal Web sites included in Entrepreneur Magazine's '100 Best Web Sites for Small Business.' The list appears in the April issue of the magazine and online at <a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/Home/HM_Static/1,1845,dbapp_bestsites_index,00.html">www.entrepreneur.com/Home/HM_Static/1,1845,dbapp_bestsites_index,00.html</a>.
People on the Move
Bruce Brody has joined the Veterans Affairs Department as associate deputy assistant secretary for cybersecurity, a new position.
Customs chooses IBM for $1.3 billion ACE contract
APRIL 27—The Customs Service has awarded its $1.3 billion, 15-year prime modernization contract to IBM Global Services.
ITAA: Final 508 Disability Rule Could Delay Gov't Purchases
APRIL 27—The final rule intended to make information technology accessible to federal workers with disabilities will likely delay the government procurement process, according to the Information Technology Association of America.
New devices do content filtering
New types of network defenders can analyze packet content fast in all seven Open Systems Interconnection layers.
USDA's Lighthouse maps data onto Geological Survey graphics
Using the Extensible Markup Language, an Agriculture Department pilot overlays soil survey data on top of map graphics from TerraServer, a Geological Survey application developed in conjunction with Microsoft Corp. in 1998.
Rackmount PCs boost security
An Austin, Texas, company keeps desktop PCs off of desks by racking them inside the data center.
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