Myers named acting deputy CIO for Defense
MARCH 28—An Army veteran who most recently served as principal director for the deputy assistant secretary of Defense has been chosen to replace Paul Brubaker as the Defense Department's deputy chief information officer.
D.C. offers free online business tax filing
The District of Columbia now offers online business taxpayer services for sales and use, franchise, employer withholding and personal property taxes.
Glitch puts animals at risk
The existence of 99 protected species was jeopardized when a programming error went undetected by the Pennsylvania Conservation and Natural Resources Department for nearly 16 months.
It's still not 1984 for facial biometrics
How close is facial biometrics to George Orwell's Big Brother? Not very.
Analyze this: Do you know how good your site is?
It's futile to point fingers when a mission-critical Web site fails to perform as expected, BMC Software Inc.'s Mary Nugent believes.
E-filing saves time, money
Massachusetts makes a bold statement, right on the front of its 2000 tax forms. The commonwealth has tagged them with this question: 'Would you like to throw this form away?'
Florida considers election funding plans
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.'Faced with two proposals for statewide voting systems, legislators started early last month to look for the money to pay for the costly overhaul.
Economic slowdown hits state IT budgets
The downturn in the U.S. economy has begun biting into state information technology budgets'mostly because tax revenues have fallen short of forecasts.
THE 50 STATES
ON THE LOOSE. Officials blamed a software failure for the escape of six inmates from the St. Clair County Correctional Facility in February. The jail's $600,000 alarm system dates to 1996; it runs the lethal electric fence under which the convicts escaped. Police in Tennessee captured all six escapees two days after the jailbreak.
Water stats flow to Web
A new Web calculator has cut 'from two or three days to 10 seconds' the time it takes to estimate the water flow in a Massachusetts river or stream, said U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist Kernell Ries.
COUNTY LINES
Illegal dumping along roads and highways has long been an environmental problem.
Wisconsin auditors cite overruns on IT projects
MARCH 27—Six of seven major information technology projects reviewed by the Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau were over budget, delayed or faulty, the bureau said.
OS alternatives
I've experimented with PC operating systems ever since the early days of the Heathkit H89, Apple II Plus and Commodore Amiga. I remember spending way too many hours laboriously typing in code from magazines.
County supervisor points the way for e-gov
Todd Spitzer is bullish on electronic government. When Spitzer, the county's designated board member for information technology, was elected supervisor of the third district five years ago, the first thing he did was upgrade the county's computers.
CIO OUTLOOK
Citizens and businesses rely on their states' infrastructures, and each state relies more and more on information technology for that infrastructure. But those infrastructures are dangerously vulnerable, particularly for systems that handle the needs of small business, education and social services.
Upbeat chief leads IT comeback
No doubt about it, Leo Crawford is a 'glass half full' kind of guy. As assistant chief executive officer of information and technology for Orange County, Calif., Crawford focuses on the good that came out of the county's bankruptcy declaration in 1994 [GCN/State & Local, June 1999, Page 30]. Orange County's treasurer Robert Citron and his assistant, Matthew R. Raabe, went to jail for losing $1.7 billion of the county's $7.4 billion investment portfolio through risky investments.
Louisiana city finds security in a better backup system
Don't expect to find life slow and easy in Alexandria, La., along the banks of the Red River. The city's famous neighbor to the south may be called The Big Easy, but Alexandria's community of 50,000 is bustling with new jobs and development.
Cray plans to build server clusters that will run Linux
Cray Inc. of Seattle by midyear will join the rush to commodity server clusters for the open-source Linux operating system, company officials said last month.
E-commerce applications stake out a middle ground
Electronic-commerce applications are like Oreo cookies'it's what's in the middle that makes them successful. Middleware tools are what hold the whole endeavor together, making it possible to bridge the Internet and back-end applications without sacrificing security or functionality. Pick the wrong filling, though, and everything falls apart.
Microsoft's BizTalk opens a channel for doing business
Many vendors have aligned with the ebXML consortium'the initials stand for electronic business Extensible Markup Language'to standardize an XML transaction infrastructure. In the meantime, Microsoft Corp. is attempting to win over early adopters with its own XML transaction technology, called BizTalk.
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