DOE to merge financial apps
Over the next two years, the Energy Department will replace multiple 20-year-old financial systems with an integrated system that meets current government standards.
GSA inks New Orleans MAA
Federal agencies in and around New Orleans will get their local telecommunications services through the General Services Administration's 19th Metropolitan Area Acquisition contract, awarded last week to BellSouth Corp.
State signs 10-year seat deal
The Office of Foreign Buildings Operations last week became the first State Department group to negotiate a contract under the General Services Administration's Seat Management Program.
7 in IT win president's honors
Among this month's 53 winners of the Presidential Rank Distinguished Executive Awards for 2000 were seven officials who work in information technology.
Los Alamos lab names first CIO
OCT. 20'Los Alamos National Laboratory today named Richard Kendall to be its first chief information officer. He will develop and promote an integrated vision for information management across the lab, said officials of the Los Alamos, N.M., nuclear research facility.
GSA amends smart-card specs
OCT. 20'The General Services Administration yesterday announced it has modified its smart-card specifications to ensure card and reader interoperability. The original specs were the work of GSA, other agencies and the five Smart Access Common ID prime contractors.
Industry group forecasts federal IT spending
OCT. 19'Federal spending on information technology is expected to grow by 1.7 percent annually over the next five years, according to a study from an industry trade group.
Sun Microsystems to acquire Cobalt Networks
Sun Microsystems Inc., a longtime maker of high-end Unix RISC systems, plans to buy Cobalt Networks Inc., whose server appliances have Intel processors.
IBM Corp.'s new AIX 5L operating system has Linux tools, extensions
IBM Corp. this month released a version of its AIX operating system with a Linux chaser.
New linear tape format doubles library space
A new high-density tape format, Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium, will give midrange systems the storage density and data throughput previously found in high-end mainframe storage.
CYBER EYE
For the past year, the Justice Department has been lobbying the private sector to support the investigation and prosecution of cybercrime.
Expect to find superspeedy USB ports on most PCs and peripherals by 2004
The Universal Serial Bus port will soon be ubiquitous on PCs and peripherals, according to Cahners In-Stat Group of Newton, Mass.
Are file cabinets really better?
When it comes to records management, 'in some ways, we were better off in the days of file cabinets than we are today,' Rear Adm. Raymond A. Archer III says.
POWER USER
This has been a good year for computer products.
Fast Xerox network printer makes noise as a quiet, small unit
Xerox Corp. has finally produced a network printer that approaches perfection.
LAB NOTES
Red Hat 7 standard. VA Linux Systems Inc. of Fremont, Calif., this month began installing the new Red Hat 7.0 Linux operating system from Red Hat Inc. of Durham, N.C., as a standard server or workstation software load.
Office 2001 for Mac delivers suite help
Microsoft Office 2001 for the Macintosh is one sweet suite.
@INFO.POLICY
How well do federal agencies consider the privacy implications of their activities? I mean really. In too many cases, privacy remains a stepchild. But a few agencies, recognizing its importance, have established privacy advocates.
FEDERAL CONTRACT LAW
As federal contracting becomes increasingly simplified, I find it necessary to revisit some of the old, tried-and-true concepts to see if they are still valid. One of these is the concept of unbalanced bidding.
Navy awards R&D contracts for San Diego center
OCT. 18'The Navy has awarded contracts worth roughly $85.3 million to four companies to provide research and development on infrastructure engineering at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego.
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