Sprint Corp. adds managed network services to communications contract
The Federal Technology Service has modified Sprint Corp.'s FTS 2001 long-haul communications contract to add managed network services.
FDA offers electronic option
Bringing a new drug to market is a paperwork-intensive process, and much of the paper goes to the Food and Drug Administration.
INTERNAUT
The federal government has been slow to explore the possibilities of the Web's Extensible Markup Language on a large scale. More is involved than fear of the unknown or simple inertia.
System gets immortalized
The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History has immortalized the Treasury Information Executive Repository. TIER, the department's standard integrated financial management systems data warehouse, recently became part of the museum's Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology.
GSA awards MAA contracts for Minneapolis-St. Paul
JUNE 1—The General Services Administration yesterday awarded contracts worth up to $60 million for local telephone service in Minneapolis-St. Paul under the Metropolitan Area Acquisition Program managed by GSA's Federal Technology Service.
Interview: IT goals mesh with mission
James Flyzik is deputy assistant secretary for information systems and chief information officer for the Treasury Department.
When feds buy IT online, dependability counts
Federal procurement managers are going digital in a big way.
INTERVIEW: Vinton G. Cerf, the Internet's voyager
When Vinton G. Cerf speaks these days of internetworking, the MCI WorldCom Inc. senior vice president is likely to be talking about the Interplanetary Channel Protocol or the Deep Space Network 20xx he's helping NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory conceptualize.
THE 50 STATES
GRAPHICS SHOP. The state Information Services Division develops and enhances Web graphics for state agencies on a fee-for-service basis. The division offers custom seals, logos, digital photo enhancement, icons, menu buttons and Web site design.
Industry wants flexible Section 508 rules
MAY 31—Section 508 rules, which require agencies to buy information technology that is accessible to the disabled, should focus on functionality rather than on exact technical standards, an industry group said.
CIO Council to make recommendations to next administration
MAY 31—The Chief Information Officers Council is working on a series of recommendations it will present to the next administration about improving government information technology.
VA's Gracey headed for dot-com
MAY 31—Harold F. Gracey Jr., the outgoing chief information officer of the Veterans Affairs Department, said he will join Fedbid.com of Germantown, Md., as vice president for government affairs. Fedbid will start operations in the fall, according to its Web site, and will be a business-to-government marketplace specializing in credit card purchases and online bidding. Today is Gracey's last day of federal service.
Los Alamos National Lab returning to normal after brush with wildfire
May 30—Los Alamos National Laboratory employees are still taking stock of the damage caused by a wildfire that terrorized parts of New Mexico for more than two weeks this month.
Don't despair; a service rep might be able to help
Erin Beasley exists. Unlike Betty Crocker or Uncle Ben, Erin is a real person'a spare-parts order fulfiller deep inside Dell Computer Corp.'s vast support organization.
iDisk service helps iMac users ease into life after floppies
As Apple iMac and thin-client users already know, the floppy disk is on its way out.
SystemSoft's CardWizard makes Windows NT friendly on the road
The crash-prevention features that keep Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 up and running on desktop computers can hinder operation on notebook computers.
LAB NOTES
First 820s get 86ed. Intel Corp. last month said it would replace as many as a million motherboards shipped since last November in the company's biggest recall since that of the first Pentium processors with floating-point errors back in 1993.
How much abuse can this gear take?
Portability does not always equal vulnerability for notebook computers and digital cameras.
FrameMaker 6.0 embraces XML and other formats for Web output
The FrameMaker 6.0 publishing application from Adobe Systems Inc. can output book-length documents in Extensible Markup Language as well as in Adobe Portable Document Format and Hypertext Markup Language.
ENTERPRISE COMPUTING: New Products
The TidalRAID storage subsystem from Western Scientific of San Diego has dual active controllers and up to 864G of RAID Level 5 storage per cabinet.
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