LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
In your Reader Survey, 'Feds shoulder burden of technology worker shortage,' I noticed that the list of choices in the box titled, 'What should be done,' did not contain one of the most important aspects of a job'in some cases, even more important than the money [<a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol20_no5/readsurvey/3735-1.html">GCN, March 5, Page 16</a>].
EDITORIAL
A new term is emerging in electronic government: intention-based transaction. Intention-based is shorthand for the linking of a series of discrete transaction systems that add up to the ultimate goal of the user.
FEMA responds with technology
When an earthquake rumbled through Seattle in February, the Federal Emergency Management Agency rolled into the area with its high-tech equipment to provide support services to the region.
INTERVIEW: Robert E. Barr, tax man turned tech exec
Robert E. Barr has an understanding of tax software from public- and private-sector viewpoints. After five years as a marketing executive at tax software publisher Intuit Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., he served for three years as IRS assistant commissioner for electronic tax administration.
O'Neill accelerates monthly closing of Treasury books
APRIL 13—Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill has announced a June 30, 2002, deadline for each bureau in the department to improve its financial accounting systems.
Software was secondary cause of Osprey crash, JAG finds
APRIL 13—While four Marines aboard a V-22 Osprey frantically pushed a software reset button last December, the tilt-rotor aircraft flew into a frenzy. It gained and lost air speed and altitude before crashing in a marshy area seven miles from the Marine Corps Air Station at New River, N.C.
DOD knowledge managers: Know your portal's audience
APRIL 12—The key to managing information on a Web portal is knowing your audience, Defense Department officials said yesterday at the E-Gov Knowledge Management conference in Washington.
FEDERAL CONTRACT LAW
As the number of orders placed under Multiple-Award Schedule contracts continues to climb, so do the judicial and administrative decisions interpreting the process for placing orders.
Panel: IT labor crisis has no precedent
The United States is on the brink of an unprecedented crisis of competence in government because of poor work force management, current and former federal officials told lawmakers last month.
DLP projectors light up a room with color
Piercing the darkness with a crisp beam of colored light from a projector is a surefire way to make a powerful PowerPoint. But until recently, you needed either a large conference room with a projector topping 70 pounds or tightly controlled presentation conditions.
Color lasers produce for a workgroup's print needs
A color laser printer might be the only printer your office workgroup needs. Seriously.
Interagency kiosk group: We'll meet again
APRIL 11—About the only thing the Interagency Kiosk Forum agreed on yesterday at its first official meeting was its name. The consortium of 50 representatives from 22 agencies also agreed to meet again on an unspecified date but left open determinations on the consortium's direction
VA chief suspends new IT projects
APRIL 11—Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony J. Principi has ordered his department to put on hold all new information technology projects until officials develop a formal IT strategy.
How to stay out of trouble with ERP
APRIL 10—Before committing time and expense to an enterprise resource planning system, agency managers should ask vendors to hold up a mirror to the agencies, according to Ira L. Hobbs, the acting chief information officer of the Agriculture Department.
NSA official says industry lags on security
APRIL 10—The government is getting inadequate help from industry in securing sensitive but unclassified data, a National Security Agency official said yesterday.
New firewall will be embedded in NIC
APRIL 9—A new firewall developed with help from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will be available late this summer as a firmware download for 3CR990 10/100-Mbps network interface cards from 3Com Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif.
CSC set to award subcontracts for IRS projects
APRIL 9—Computer Sciences Corp., holder of the IRS Prime contract, is in final negotiations with three vendors for tax systems modernization subcontracts.
In a final act, Defense CIO Money approves use of Active Directory
APRIL 9'On his last day of work as the Defense Department's chief information officer, Art Money signed a memorandum encouraging DOD agencies to immediately begin deploying Microsoft Active Directory on networks throughout the department.
U.S. ranks third in e-gov, Accenture finds
APRIL 9—The U.S. government took third place behind the governments of Canada and Singapore in a broad-ranging Accenture study of electronic-government services around the world.
Navy site hacked by China sympathizers
APRIL 6—The home page of a Navy Web site was hijacked Thursday, apparently by supporters or agents of the People's Republic of China, which holds the United States responsible for the recent collision of a surveillance plane with a Chinese F-8 fighter.
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