General says the Army's weakest links on battlefield are bandwidth and training
Megabits'not megahertz'are holding back Army battlefield command and control systems, but the service is proposing a program that would target that weakness, a communications officer said recently.
DOD pushes contract software
The Defense Department in the past year has progressed in its efforts to implement paperless contracting throughout the services, despite training and infrastructure challenges, officials said.
Competition in local phone service saves money for AF
The Air Force has taken advantage of telephone deregulation to trim up to $50 million from the cost of local phone service at its bases.
Wireless LANs are ready to hit the mainstream
Wireless LANs will break into the mainstream under a new standard that promises 11-Mbps throughput and at least a degree of vendor interoperability.
Lucent's ATM uplink modules for Cajun switches provide 1.2-Gbps bandwidth
Lucent Technologies Inc. has built a pair of asynchronous transfer mode uplink modules for its Cajun campus switch line.
Base adopts Gigabit Ethernet
Fort Polk, La., home of the Army's Joint Readiness Training Center, last July retired 21 asynchronous transfer mode switches and their 4-year-old backbone, changing to a Gigabit Ethernet network.
INTERNAUT
Internet marketplaces are all the rage these days, but the federal government is missing the chance to build its own major commerce center and focus its tremendous buying power.
INTERVIEW: John P. Casciano, systems recon specialist
John P. Casciano left the Air Force last year after a 33-year career, which he capped as the service's senior intelligence official. He now is vice president for information operations and infrastructure protection at TASC Inc. The Reading, Mass., company is a subsidiary of Litton Industries Inc.
@INFO.POLICY: Robert Gellman
Because privacy and ways to protect it are top-of-mind topics for many feds, I want to recommend two recent books'one about privacy and one about transparency.
FEDERAL CONTRACT LAW: Joseph J. Petrillo
I'm most proud of my profession when lawyers from government and the private sector bridge their differences to work toward improving the administration of contract disputes and, ultimately, justice.
Letters to the Editor
Right search engine, wrong address John McCormick, in his Power User column 'The mercurial Internet has a new winner in the search engine race' [<a href="http://gcn.com/vol19_no4/enterprise/1335-1.html">GCN, Feb. 21, Page 33</a>], is right about the usefulness of Fast Search.
Time goes by'fast
Statistics can jolt you out of complacency'like looking at a clock and seeing it's later than you realized. I heard one such statistic the other day.
PC Card modem makers diverge on card types
PC Card modem makers are experimenting with new ways to simplify going online with notebook computers.
Demo 2000 shows the latest in high-tech gizmos
From an online office suite that apes Microsoft Office 2000 to a digital camera for a Palm handheld device, vendors at the Demo 2000 conference earlier this year displayed the latest attention-getting tools for end users.
Railroad Retirement Board spikes its folders
Until recently, the Railroad Retirement Board serviced its 1.3 million claim folders from off-site storage under a contract with the National Archives and Records Administration's Federal Records Center in Suitland, Md.
CYBER EYE
The growth of electronic commerce has generated plenty of light as well as heat when it comes to securing transactional systems. Technology for secure links and strong authentication is in high demand for electronic government.
Corel packages applications with Linux that are targeted at federal PC users
Corel Corp. has begun delivering shrink-wrapped CD-ROMs of its Linux operating system with several applications targeted at federal PC users.
NIH takes attendance online
To replace an aging time and attendance system, the National Institutes of Health gave an intranet face-lift to client-server software originally developed for the National Science Foundation.
POWER USER
I've been using the latest version of the Rocket eBook [<a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol18_no27/reviews/419-1.html"><i>GCN</i>, Aug. 23, 1999, Page 31</a>] in the office and on the road, but not for buying books online. I carry it around to look up large amounts of custom reference data, especially downloaded Web sites.
Notebook PC doesn't live up to its rugged image
The Panasonic ToughBook CF-37 might not be a superspeedy multimedia notebook, but it's no slouch. Its light weight suits it to a crowd other than macho road warriors.
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