High court gets archives case
Public Citizen last week filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to reverse a lower-court ruling that lets agencies delete electronic records as long as they have made copies in some format.
GSA lightens up on Millennia
The General Services Administration's latest multibillion-dollar solicitation for information technology services hit the streets last month.
Guard fine-tunes FLS study
A Coast Guard systems board will meet this month to discuss its review of the Fleet Logistics System project.
Security bill gets initial OK
The House Science Committee late last month approved the Computer Security Enhancement Act of 1999, HR 2413, by voice vote.
Call home on your cell phone
Federal employees can add a personal phone line to their government cellular telephones under a General Services Administration contract with Nextel Communications Inc. of Reston, Va.
MCI wins DISN-Pacific
The Defense Department late last month awarded the Defense Information System Network Transmission Services-Pacific contract to MCI WorldCom Inc.
Software Development Tools
Federal agencies are constantly finding ways to make commercial software work for them, but that hasn't eliminated the need to create applications from scratch.
Air Mobility Command takes Panasonic Toughbooks into field
The Air Force during the past three years has been using 1,600 lightly ruggedized portable PCs to run mission planning system software around the world'including during Operation Allied Force'in locations ranging from cold deserts to air-conditioned cockpits.
Army Materiel Command strives to make service's databases more interoperable
The Army Materiel Command's chief information officer wants to deploy systems that are more interoperable and distributed, and he's publishing a common operating environment document to guide the organization toward that goal.
Air Force uses scheduling app for evaluations
The 418th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., is using project scheduling software to create master schedules for development and qualification tests and evaluations of special operations, trainer and transport aircraft.
Marines' IT set to go for 2000
After five years and nearly $100 million, Marine Corps officials in September certified their mission- and non-mission-critical systems year 2000-ready, making the Corps the first Defense Department service to report itself ready for the rollover.
Briefing Book
Brigade test. Look for more purchases of ruggedized notebook PCs at the Army's Fort Lewis, Wash., home of I Corps. The base was selected as a testsite for a medium-weight brigade that could deploy quickly and carry heavy-duty equipment.
Interview: Bill Joy, Sun's vision guy
As chief scientist of Sun Microsystems Inc., co-founder Bill Joy has spent a quarter of a century designing Unix software.
ImageAXS Pro manages still and multimedia images as database objects
Many software packages can catalog images on the hard drive, presenting thumbnail views of large photo collections. Most of them aim at general consumers. A package needs a little more to bring meaningful search capability into enterprise workgroups.
Corel suite's spreadsheet app comes down to Earth
Corel Corp. has significantly improved its spreadsheet program, Quattro Pro 9, but fails to go far enough to make it a standout against Microsoft Excel.
Lab Notes
Forget bugs. If you buy certain new computer products, you might have to worry about termites.
Compaq Deskpro with new 650-MHz Pentium III shows big performance gain over its predecessor
The new 650-MHz Pentium III processor performs almost a third faster than its 550-MHz predecessor, but there's more beneath the surface than a jump in megahertz.
Intel seeks quick onboard data route
On long road trips along Interstate 95, I often see four lanes of traffic funnel into two and back up cars and trucks for miles. As I watch the crawling parade of brake lights, I think how much it resembles the internal bus structure of a PC motherboard.
Mitre publishes dictionary of information security threats
Mitre Corp., a government-funded Bedford, Mass., researcher, has published a searchable security dictionary of common vulnerabilities and exposures.
Sprint readies net services to scan for viruses at user firewalls
FTS 2001 contractor Sprint Corp. is readying a pair of network security outsourcing services.'The telecommunications company began managing Internet gateway virus scanning for a few customer sites last summer and plans a general rollout by next month.
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