Northrop buys Federal Data
Northrop Grumman Corp. plans to acquire Federal Data Corp., a Bethesda, Md., systems integrator and supplier of information systems to the federal government.
This ballpoint is a Net client
The thinnest Internet appliance yet, a ballpoint pen from Anoto AB of Lund, Sweden, incorporates an image processor, a video camera and a Bluetooth wireless transmitter.
CSC snares Medicare contract
The Health Care Financing Administration has awarded Computer Sciences Corp. a five-year, $26.8 million contract to support Medicare processing.
White House still hot on e-gov
The President's Information Technology Advisory Committee has released a report recommending ways agencies can improve public access to federal information resources.
SAS bundles e-gov software
SAS Institute Inc. has packaged four bundles of software designed for government users. Each of the Cary, N.C., company's bundles is $75,000. The price includes all needed software plus setup and training, said Rich Bishop, systems engineering manager for the SAS public-sector group.
GSA systems chief will leave
William Piatt, the General Services Administration's chief information officer, will leave GSA Sept. 30 to oversee electronic-government initiatives at Booz, Allen & Hamilton Inc. of McLean, Va.
Wen Ho Lee remains in jail
A 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling last week quashed Wen Ho Lee's chances for release, at least temporarily. The court is slated to hold a hearing today on Lee's possible release.
GSA, FBI officers earn kudos
WILLIAMSBURG, Va.'Federal employees behind two high-visibility systems projects last week received achievement awards at the Interagency Resources Management Council 2000 conference.
PACKET RAT
'You can tell the labor market is tight,' Mrs. Rat said to her spouse as they left the obstetrician's office. 'Otherwise headhunters wouldn't prospect a recruit before it even reaches term.'
PKI guru to leave job for private sector
Richard Guida on Dec. 31 will join the growing pool of federal information technology executives who are leaving government for the private sector. But where he will go not even he knows.
PROFESSIONAL CALENDAR
September 25-27 Electronic Book 2000Workshop. Washington. Contact the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Microsoft revises Handheld PC
PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 8—The Microsoft Windows CE handheld computer operating system has been an underdog in the market dominated by the Palm OS from Palm Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif. At the Demo Mobile conference here today, Microsoft Corp. announced plans to revise its Handheld PC (H/PC) platform.
Naval division uses the Web to keep financial data current
Sylvia Ronayne kept coming back to two words: timeliness and reliability. That's what users at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport need from management and financial data, she said. And that's what they get from the center's Web-enabled Executive Business Information System.
DOD builds a common ground for conducting e-business
The business of the Defense Department is pretty big business. The Defense EBusiness eXchange, for instance, handles 7 million to 8 million transactions a day involving thousands of contractors, hundreds of DOD business systems and some $13 billion in goods and services each year.
Montana base launches pre-emptive strike on network problems
A network with an uptime rate of 99.85 percent is notable in any circumstance. At a missile base it was, until recently, unprecedented.
Redstone makes logical shift to Gigabit Ethernet
At the Army's Logistics Support Activity at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., the motto is 'Information is our deliverable product, useful information is our business.'
VIEW FROM THE FRONT
When Col. Robert Kirsch arrived at the Pentagon two years ago to manage the building's information management and telecommunications renovation, he knew it would be a monumental undertaking.
DOD networks
Networks are weapons. That's the new refrain at the Defense Department.
@INFO.POLICY
Carnivore, the FBI wiretapping device for e-mail, has given privacy and Internet junkies plenty to chew on.
FEDERAL CONTRACT LAW
Barely five years after the demise of the Brooks Act, Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) has proposed a statute to govern federal information technology, HR 5024.
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