Defense sets up Reserve IT groups
DEC. 8—Deputy Defense secretary Rudy de Leon this week approved a plan to establish five Reserve groups that will focus on information technology.
Unisys mulls sale of federal unit
DEC. 8—Unisys Corp. yesterday revealed it might sell its U.S. Federal Government Group in McLean, Va., as part of a corporate downsizing after lower-than-expected revenue this year.
DOD throws Iridium an unexpected lifeline
DEC. 7—The Defense Department yesterday awarded Iridium Satellite LLC of Arnold, Md., a $72 million, 24-month contract for unlimited satellite communications airtime for 20,000 government users. Optional extensions through 2007 could bring the cumulative contract value to $252 million.
Plantronics DSP-500 headset is good, but software is so-so
Reviewing speech recognition products has taught me about the uneven quality of PC headset microphones. I keep looking for something better.
Y2Kudos: the 10 best products of 2000
As the year draws to a close and the sparks stop flying in the GCN Lab, we take a backward look at products that earned high marks from the review crew.
ANOTHER VIEW: Col. John C. Deal, Lt. Col. Drew Hamilton and James H. Ward
Nowhere does the battle over outsourcing rage more fiercely than in the halls of the Pentagon.
THE VIEW FROM INSIDE: Walter R. Houser
Beginning Jan. 1, 2001, more than 33,000 federal employees will receive pay increases. The new information technology special salary rates will cover current and newly hired employees in the GS-334 computer specialist, GS-854 computer engineer, and GS-1550 computer scientist occupational series at grades GS-5 through GS-12.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
I am responding to the Power User column, 'Does anyone agree on the worst ideas of the last millennium?' [<a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol19_no28/enterprise/2945-1.html">GCN, Sept. 25</a>].
EDITORIAL
In the aftermath of the presidential election fiasco, I've heard a lot of troubling ideas floating around. One particularly bad one is abolishment of the Electoral College.
Application makes video library manageable with keywords
'Deep earth penetration.' 'W88.' 'D61.' Those are some of the key phrases Sandia National Laboratories can retrieve from several thousands of hours of videotape, thanks to a video content management application.
DOE opens computing center in Russian nuclear-complex city
Former Ambassador Ronald Lehman, director of the Center for Global Security Research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and senior Energy officials recently commissioned the Strela Open Computing Center in Snezhinsk, one of 10 closed and formerly secret nuclear cities in Russia.
INTERVIEW: Lab focuses on retaining staff
John C. Browne became Los Alamos National Laboratory director in November 1997. He joined the Energy Department's New Mexico nuclear weapons lab in 1979 as a group leader in the physics division. Browne has held several positions at the laboratory.
State Department targets six for discipline in laptop disappearance
DEC. 6—An ambassador resigned from the State Department a month earlier than planned after the department proposed disciplinary actions against six Intelligence and Research Division employees over the disappearance of a laptop computer.
INTERVIEW: Rick Rosenburg, EDS' NMCI point man
As Electronic Data Systems Corp.'s program executive for the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, Rick Rosenburg must roll out wide-ranging enterprise services successfully to a limited Navy test group. Only then can EDS begin to reap potential billions of dollars in NMCI business.
GSA appoints chief technology officer
DEC. 5—The General Services Administration has appointed Christopher Fornecker as chief technology officer.
High court assigns extra servers for election documents
DEC. .5—The Supreme Court Web site, operated by the Government Printing Office, had to shift its server capacity to handle a large spike in traffic early this month.
Online Atlas chief wins AFFIRM award
DEC. 5—Jay Donnelly, a supervisory geographer at the Geological Survey, has received the November award for leadership from the Association for Federal IRM. AFFIRM recognized Donnelly for his work as managing editor of the National Atlas of the United States. Details of the interagency effort can be found at <a href="http:// www.nationalatlas.gov"> www.nationalatlas.gov</a>.
Texas agency adopts Web case management
DEC. 5—The Texas Department of Human Services plans to launch the nation's first Web-based eligibility determination system for welfare and health services programs.
Turn your fingerprint into a passkey to Net accounts with easy-to-use device
The U.are.U Pro fingerprint scanner can log you on not only to your PC, but also to multiple Internet accounts.
COUNTY LINES
Wilken's woes. Systems managed by Florida's 15th Circuit clerk of the court Dorothy H. Wilken ran out of hard drive space last month, preventing the public from accessing records such as court judgments, marriage licenses and real estate records. Wilken, who won re-election last month, also faces a lawsuit from a vendor.
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