Environmental center makes do after fire cripples supercomputer
The National Centers for Environmental Prediction will decide later this month whether to fix, replace or do nothing to a $35 million weather supercomputer that caught fire late last month.
Former Mint webmaster offers feds some pointers
When Chuck Payne, former Electronic Products and Services Division chief at the Mint, left the federal government on Oct. 1 for IBM Corp.'s public-sector and global services division, he took a wealth of Web experience with him.
FIDnet will monitor federal, not private, nets, administration says
Under continued skepticism from privacy groups, the Clinton administration has reiterated that the new Federal Intrusion Detection Network will monitor only government computer networks and not those in the private sector.
Interior makes plans to resuscitate its land and mineral record system
By year's end, the Bureau of Land Management will release a blueprint for upgrading the systems it uses to manage the nation's land and mineral resources'almost 10 years after it came up with the original plan.
Communications: New Products
Cabletron Systems Inc. has added an inbound rate limiting service to its SmartSwitch 2000, 6000 and 9000 switches to control the rate of traffic coming into network interfaces. IRL gives bandwidth control from 0.5 Mbps up to 1 Gbps.
Nokia moves to sell firewall-router appliances
Mobile phone giant Nokia Inc. has branched out into IP communications and virtual private network security, based on its experience in supporting wireless networks.
Looking to maintain systems capabilities, General Dynamics sees GTE as a good fit
GTE Government Systems Corp., which supplies goods and services to many military and civilian agencies, will fit in better with its new owner, General Dynamics Corp., than it did with telecommunications carrier GTE Corp., according to General Dynamics executive vice president Gordon England.
PROFESSIONAL CALENDAR
Performance Computing and CommunicationsConference. Alexandria, Va.
Navy: One card is smart idea
After scores of pilot programs, the government is committing itself in a big way to using smart cards'up to 10 million in the Navy alone over the next three years.
Senate elects new Legislative Information System
The Senate next month will deploy two modules of what will utlimately make up its new Legislative Information System.
INTERNAUT
In an era of dirt-cheap and even downright free PCs, one important component has suddenly gone missing: the help desk.
AF sees value in spending on IT for leaner, meaner troops
DAYTON, Ohio'Air Force leaders last week called for Congress to shell out more money for a lighter, leaner and more lethal military service.
NOAA distributes all ship specifications via the Web
When the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began posting online more than 10,000 engineering drawings of its research fleet, PC users and contractors could browse the 20- or 30-foot blueprints just fine. But the hard copies from low-end desktop printers came out as black blobs.
GSA shelves plans for warehouse closings
The General Services Administration has backed away from a plan to close eight Federal Supply Service warehouses and instead will allow agencies to buy directly from vendors through an online store.
CIOs say training, staff are the keys to security
The biggest challenges for government information security planners are the most mundane: budgets, training and staff.
OMB defends inventory of government jobs
The Office of Management and Budget is taking the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act seriously and will use an inventory of federal jobs suggested as possible outsource targets during the budget review process, a senior OMB official said last week.
IRS plans a system for electronic transcripts
The IRS Office of Electronic Tax Administration wants to automate the labor-intensive process of providing taxpayers with copies'known as transcripts in tax speak'of their records.
@INFO.POLICY
Everyone in the privacy world struggles with the same technology issues.
FEDERAL CONTRACT LAW
The tortuous history of an aborted contract for travel agent services offers useful lessons in federal contracts, including those for information technology.
Letters to the Editor
The news that MCI WorldCom Inc. will merge with Sprint Corp. <a href="/vol18_no33/news/755-1.html">[<i>GCN</i>, Oct. 4, Page 1]</a> could well be subtitled, 'Chickens come home to roost at GSA,'' where a long-standing policy of limiting competition for telecommunications services among oligopolists has left the General Services Administration's Dennis Fischer sputtering, 'Two is different than one.''
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