ATF finishes migration to new financial system
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms this month finished converting all its mainframe financial management functions to the Momentum client-server suite from American Management Systems Inc. of Fairfax, Va.
Get ready for the next big thing: XML
Most Web developers know Extensible Markup Language looms large in their future, but few know whether it will be next month or next year.
Can you separate convergence fact from fiction?
Burgeoning bandwidth demands have made convergence a hot topic in government. Converged voice and data networks can provide a sound and cost-effective way to manage growth while increasing reliability, availability and security.
Satellites expand comm possibilities, but even the sky has limits
NASA and the Defense Department aren't the only federal agencies pushing into the frontiers of space.
Smith gets Office Anywhere moving
Welcome to Wanda's world, where all the latest communications technologies converge.
Build bigger bandwidth for your network backbone five ways
Bandwidth, like winning, may not be everything, but to an information services manager looking to buttress a network against the pressures of too much traffic, it can look like the only thing.
Despite promise, voice over IP is still in the talking stage
Voice over IP promises to reduce the cost of telephone calls, simplify infrastructure and ease integration of applications by making voice just another type of data carried over the LAN or WAN.
Bluetooth is ready for a leap toward wireless environment
One of the next frontiers in wireless technology will start at about 10 paces. That's the distance at which products using the Bluetooth specification standard initially will work, the first of them appearing this year.
VA medical center puts wireless LAN to the test
Officials at the Veterans Affairs Department medical center in Phoenix recently got a taste of the world of wireless LANs when they tested a small-scale system designed to ensure that patients were being given correct medications.
Comm alternatives
Is convergence all talk and no action?
Your network technology will influence router selection
Your choice of access router depends largely on the technology behind the WAN used by your organization. Here are a few key elements of WAN technology to keep in mind, courtesy of Intel Corp. and Engage Communication Inc.:
ROUTER
A popular current misconception holds that network routers will soon be as rare as rotary telephones. Don't believe it.
INTERVIEW: Stephen Hawald, Education's dean of integration
As chief information officer of the Education Department's Office of Student Financial Assistance, Stephen Hawald is the systems watchdog over the $300 million modernization of the department's loan program.
Army program records brisk PC sales at end of fiscal '99
Even as they define user requirements for enterprise servers and network management software, Army Small Computer Program officials report that PC sales were brisk at the end of the fiscal 1999 buying season.
DOD, services eye 2000 goals
With the year 2000 rollover past, the Defense Department's next big challenge is the leap year date change. On March 1, officials said, they will turn their full attention to a handful of initiatives: security, the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, knowledge management and specialized buying vehicles.
BRIEFING BOOK
Smooth out Win 2000. Col. Stephen Broug-hall, program manager for the Army Global Combat Support System at Fort Lee, Va., said he is concerned about moving to Microsoft Windows 2000, which is scheduled for a Feb. 17 release.
On-demand bandwidth service bills by the minute
A start-up network service provider owned in part by AT&T Corp. is using the long-distance carrier's digital network to offer so-called dynamic private networking'dedicated bandwidth on demand, billed by the minute.
This e-mail will self-destruct without a mess
When messages self-destructed in the vintage television show 'Mission Impossible,' viewers saw smoke and heard hissing. Infraworks Corp. of Austin, Texas, has a new product that does the same thing to e-mail attachments, but without any mess or noise.
Braille books get online outlet
The Library of Congress is developing new ways to deliver books to the blind and visually impaired via a Web site for braille books and through digital audio.
INTERNAUT
Now that most government agencies have successfully adapted Internet and intranet technologies to share information with each other and the public, new trends are emerging. Here are seven trends to watch in the months ahead:
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