Interview: Stephen R. Colgate
Justice Department chief information officer Stephen R. Colgate, assistant attorney general for administration, has two decades of government service under his belt. At Justice, he has been executive officer in the Civil Rights Division and assistant director of the budget staff. Previously, he worked at the Treasury Department as director of finance and at the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a budget officer.
Crimefighters get another tool
Law enforcement agencies can tie fingerprint files and booking data with Appro Integrated Booking Link software released this month by Appro Systems Inc.
Micron takes subscriptions
A Subscription Computing program from Micron Electronics Inc. can simplify network connectivity and set up secure intranet or electronic commerce sites for offices with up to 2,500 workers.
Maui supercomputer revs up
The Maui High Performance Computing Center in Kihei, Hawaii, is putting its IBM RS/6000 Scalable PowerParallel supercomputer through a $5 million upgrade to more than double performance.
Weather service gets new net
The National Weather Service this month awarded a 10-year, $29.4 million contract to GTE Information Systems LLC to install a new network for the Weather Wire Service.
DOD schools gain IT support
The Defense Department's Defense Education Activity has placed a one-year, $1 million order for information technology support services to Intellisource of Vienna, Va., under a General Services Administration IT Schedule contract.
AT&T takes third ACES pact
The General Services Administration has awarded a third digital certificate contract, to AT&T Corp., under the Federal Technology Service's Access Certificates for Electronic Services program.
Horn's next focus is security
Rep. Steve Horn last week said ensuring computer security will be a long journey, but Congress must help by making sure agencies get the computing power they need.
DISN Pacific award on tap
The Defense Information Systems Agency plans to award a $2 billion Pacific telecommunications contract by mid-November. Originally, DISA had planned to award the contract nearly two years ago.
PACKET RAT
The Rat was busy tinkering in his burrow, looking for new ways to boost sideline revenues from service calls generated by his rMachines Inc. free PCs, when he got an encrypted satellite wristwatch call from his newest investors'a group he's calling the Langley Investment Club.
A CIO parts ways with VHA: 'It seemed like the right time to leave'
Dave Albinson this month left his job as the Veterans Health Administration chief information officer.
Burek assumes a familiar role at Justice
In her now official role as the Justice Department's deputy assistant attorney general for IRM, Linda Burek said she will concentrate on systems architecture, computer security, Web development and project management training.
BRIEFING BOOK
Floating with Dell. The Navy's Pacific Fleet in September awarded Dell Computer Corp. a delivery or-der to lease more than 15,000 PCs for shipboard users.
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.
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