Interior launches departmentwide travel service
DEC. 19—The Interior Department is implementing an online travel booking service for its 48,000 travelers, through a $60 million annual account with Omega World Travel of Fairfax, Va.
Tricare gears up for flood of calls
DEC. 19—The Defense Department's Tricare Management Activity will increase its customer call center staff fourfold as it gears up to handle inquiries from 1.4 million retirees.
Memphis awards $50 million outsourcing contract
DEC. 18—The city of Memphis, Tenn., has awarded a $50 million, seven-year information technology outsourcing contract to SCT Corp.
AF awards $2 billion logistics contract
DEC. 18—The Air Force Security Assistance Center has given a $2 billion, five-year contract for the Parts and Repair Ordering System II to Lear Siegler Logistics International Inc. of Annapolis, Md.
NIMA puts map imagery on Web
DEC. 18—The National Imagery and Mapping Agency last week followed NASA and commercial Web sites by putting georeferenced images of the Earth online.
Florida governor forms election task force
DEC. 15-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has created a bipartisan task force to recommend to the state legislature ways to improve the state's election processes.
Bush-Cheney team gets thousands of online applications
DEC. 15'The Bush-Cheney transition team is sorting tens of thousands of applications for posts in the new administration that were submitted through the Web site at <a href="http://www.bushcheneytransition.com"> www.bushcheneytransition.com</a>.
North Carolina official recommends upgraded, not standardized, ballots
DEC. 14—The disputes over presidential vote tallies in Florida have prompted calls for a national, uniform method of voting. George Gilbert, director of elections for Guilford County, N.C., ' which claims to be the birthplace of the term 'pregnant chad' ' disagrees with that idea, saying such a move by Congress would be shortsighted.
In South Dakota, recounts go smoothly
DEC. 14'Two legislative contests and three county commissioner races in South Dakota faced recounts in November, election supervisor Chris Nelson said. In contrast to the presidential recount in Florida the winners were determined without dispute.
Army awards $453 million contract for education portal
DEC. 14—The Army today announced a five-year, $453 million contract with PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. of New York for a Web portal to deliver college courses to 80,000 soldiers. Service officials said the students will be able to begin enrolling in mid-January at Fort Benning, Ga., Fort Campbell, Ky., and Fort Hood, Texas.
McDonald to oversee FTS's information assurance programs
DEC 13'The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service has named Sallie McDonald assistant commissioner of its Office of Information Assurance and Critical Infrastructure Protection.
Lockheed to manage Pentagon network during upgrade
DEC. 13'Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $378 million contract to manage the computer network of the Defense Department's Network Infrastructure Services Agency-Pentagon.
CIOs get 5-step plan for security evaluations
DEC. 12—The Chief Information Officers Council has alerted federal CIOs to a new, five-level framework for managing security risks to their systems.
NASA pairs with university, vendors on high-dependability software
DEC. 12—NASA is joining with a research university and 12 companies to form a consortium that will seek to reduce or eliminate failures in the nation's most essential computer systems.
DOD opens high-tech recruiting station in Virginia
DEC. 11—The Defense Department's latest effort to improve military recruiting came last week with the opening of a high-tech recruiting station at a shopping mall in a Washington suburb.
Marines create Corps-wide online PKI training
DEC. 11—The Marine Corps distance-learning team is delivering a 15-minute interactive training course to about 300,000 Marines and Corps civilian employees about use of public-key infrastructure tools to digitally sign documents and e-mail.
DOD chooses Integic to build health portal
DEC. 11-The Defense Department last week announced a $20 million contract with Integic Corp. of Chantilly, Va., to build a Web portal for health care information and services.
Pentagon rebuilds with Gigabit Ethernet
Pentagon planners have switched from asynchronous transfer mode to Gigabit Ethernet for the first wedge of the 58-year-old building's 14-year, $1.2 billion renovation.
Satellite phone crosses the dead zone
The world may be mostly wired, but there are still plenty of unwired frontiers left.
Report urges president to focus on IT
The first of an expected flurry of recommendations for the new president'whose identity was still uncertain at press time'urges him to embrace performance-based government and information technology to deliver services to citizens.
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