CECOM has free buying app
A free Microsoft Excel 2000 add-in developed by analysts at the Army Communications-Electronics Command can help government purchasing agents determine the lowest overall cost when a vendor discounts various quantities of a product.
Mrs. Rat's baby shower is full of the gifts that will keep being given
As Mrs. Rat's due date drew near, the Rat household went into full-blown nesting mode.
GSA taps former DOD undersecretary to be its next chief technology officer
The General Services Administration has named Christopher Fornecker chief technology officer. He will report to GSA's chief information officer, Michael Carleton, the agency said.
GSA chief Barram will leave
David J. Barram will step down as administrator of the General Services Administration on Friday, GSA officials said.
HP's 2500C series pulls its weight in workgroups
Hewlett-Packard Co. covers the full range of ink-jet color printers, starting with the $99 DeskJet 648C personal printer and continuing through increasing levels of performance.
Color Ink-Jet Printers
A color printer isn't the luxury item it once was at the personal, small office or workgroup level. Fewer documents these days are pure text; they often include graphics, photos or maps for which color is helpful, perhaps even essential.
Ship slated for faster systems
The Navy's newest oceanographic survey ship, the Mary Sears, is about to leave Unix in its wake. Within a year, Microsoft Windows NT and Linux will replace the ship's IBM OS/2 and HP-UX operating systems.
BRIEFING BOOK
Robocops. Military police at Fort Polk, La., got a look at what may be the future of law enforcement when they tested the Digital MP System last month.
NEW PRODUCTS
The AT-GS900 family of unmanaged Layer 2 Gigabit Ethernet switches from Allied Telesyn International Corp. of Bothell, Wash., supply high-bandwidth backbone connectivity for workgroups, data centers and server farms.
NSF allocates R&D funds for fast bandwidth
The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $2.9 million grant to the Web 100 project to boost end-to-end network performance for research collaboration.
PC peripheral combines smart card and biometrics
A combination smart-card reader and fingerprint sensor strengthens biometric authentication in the $159 5th Sense Combo Peripheral from Veridicom Inc.
Use enterprise client firewall with some VPNs
Symantec Corp. has designed a desktop firewall application that will protect enterprise and remote clients from back-door attacks.
Comm change near finish line
The General Services Administration last month announced that 89 agencies have finished the changeover to the FTS 2001 long-haul communications contracts.
INTERNAUT
Privacy advocates' strong criticism of the FBI's Carnivore e-mail surveillance system has impelled the Justice Department and Congress to take a closer look.
ETrust Single Sign-On directs browser access
An upgraded product in Computer Associates International Inc.'s eTrust security suite controls browser access to applications.
Sandia lab expands its homegrown supercomputer cluster
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are grafting 1,300 new nodes onto their homegrown supercomputer cluster, known as Cplant.
IBM eServer keeps cool with copper-enhanced chips
IBM Corp.'s new 24-processor symmetric multiprocessing server uses the company's latest processors to run faster than its predecessor without running hotter.
Service unites on new e-mail
Updating a 15-year-old messaging system took a back seat to the year 2000 transition, but the Forest Service managed both feats during the agency's peak business time'forest fire season.
POWER USER
I'd like to round out the year with best wishes for the next millennium to readers who agree as well as those who disagree with my sometimes disagreeable positions.
Clinton creates new federal unit to manage air traffic
DEC. 8—President Clinton yesterday issued an executive order creating an Air Traffic Organization within the Federal Aviation Administration. His move sidestepped Congress, which has ignored proposals to fold air traffic control functions into a performance-based unit of FAA.
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