In need of single standard to purge incompatibilities, metadata has two now
Though sometimes viewed as an arcane technology, metadata plays a crucial role in the design and implementation of data warehouses and the use of extraction, transformation and loading, or ETL, tools.
INTERVIEW: Morley A. Winograd, White House IT Thinker
Morley A. Winograd has been director of the National Partnership for Reinventing Government and senior policy adviser to Vice President Gore since December 1997.
INTERVIEW: Army sees role for outsourcing
James D. Buckner in January of last year became chief information officer of the Army Materiel Command, which has 58,000 employees at 285 locations in 40 states and 24 countries.
INTERNAUT
Are you an infomediary? If you're involved in providing content rather than operating the technical side of a government Web site, or if you work in a data center where access is tightly controlled, you'd better become an infomediary fast. Otherwise, your career days may be numbered.
Good start for modernization
The Army's Wholesale Logistics Modernization Program is 'working pretty well,' and all but three of 221 employees in two software development facilities chose to join Computer Sciences Corp. when the vendor recently took over the program, said James D. Buckner, the Army Materiel Command's chief information officer.
GSA's Pugliese will retire
Federal Supply Service commissioner Frank P. Pugliese will retire this month after 28 years at the General Services Administration.
GSA sets plan to issue free digital certificates
The General Services Administration has authorized the creation of the first 110,000 digital certificates under its Access Certificates for Electronic Services program.
GIS resources are free from the Geography Network
The Geography Network, recently launched by Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. at <a href="http://www.geographynetwork.com">www.geographynetwork.com</a>, makes available geographic information system data from distributed sources.
Funds slashed for DOD joint accounting system
Almost as soon as the House Appropriations Committee slashed funding for the Defense Department's joint accounting system in the fiscal 2001 budget, a blanket of silence fell over major Capitol Hill and DOD personnel involved in the system's deployment.
Free Flight project takes wing
The Federal Aviation Administration late last month awarded a five-year, $329 million software development contract to Computer Sciences Corp. under the agency's Free Flight Program.
Four share Boston MAA
The General Services Administration last month awarded four contracts for local-telecommunications services in Boston under the Metropolitan Area Acquisition program.
Feds come out from hiding at hacker show
LAS VEGAS''I'm from the government, and I'm here to ask for your help,' the National Security Agency's Brian Snow last month told an audience at the Black Hat Briefings.
FEDERAL CONTRACT LAW
One case at a time, the rules governing how agencies place orders under the General Services Administration's schedule contracts continue to evolve.
Eglin Air Force Base begins using full version of STARS
The Defense Department last month rolled out its version of the Federal Aviation Administration's Standard Terminal Auto- mation Replacement System.
Education revamps loan systems with 'share-in-savings' contract
The modernization of the Education Department's student loan systems won't cost the department a dime under an innovative contract.
EDITORIAL
The federal government cannot count its beans.
Davis introduces federal IT management bill
Rep. Tom Davis late last month introduced the Federal Information Policy Act to develop a framework for mandatory controls over government information technology.
Data warehousing tools
Recent developments in data warehousing have run toward the emerging issues of getting information to the Web, developing enterprise information portals and integrating wireless technology. But the basic steps are still a challenge for developers.
DOT aims to make paper travel vouchers a memory
Beginning in January, federal travelers should expect to launch their browsers to process travel authorizations and vouchers using the Transportation Department's Travel and Expense Web-based System.
DOJ shifts its comm to Sprint
The Justice Department this month will begin cutting over its international voice service to Sprint Corp., whose FTS 2001 contract it chose last month. Sprint also provides FTS 2001 domestic video and data service to Justice.
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