OmniSwitch gets NSA's nod
The National Security Agency has certified interoperability of the OmniSwitch from Alcatel Data Networks of Ashburn, Va., with the Fastlane encryptor.
FEC to require online filings
The Federal Election Commission by 2001 will require House of Representatives candidates to file campaign finance reports electronically, according to a new law.
DOE creates research site
The Energy Department's Office of Science last week launched the PubScience Web site to help researchers access peer-reviewed articles online.
Army uses proxy cache engines to foil hackers
The Army is using proxy cache engines to protect the nearly 1,000 Web sites the service maintains at offices and on bases within the continental United States.
SSA taps Unisys for IWS/LAN follow-on
The Social Security Administration will stick with Unisys Corp. for follow-on work to the Intelligent Workstation/LAN contract through which the agency has rolled out almost 70,000 PCs since 1996.
PACKET RAT
The Rat's reduction in rank has freed him to resume overseeing operations of his low-tech Internet startup, rMachines Inc.
EPA opens new IT management shop
The Environmental Protection Agency's new information technology office will face immediate challenges in improving data management capabilities when staff members take their new posts Oct. 18.
USB curbs reboots with mixed results
With a Universal Serial Bus, you will never reboot again when you connect a new peripheral. Well, almost never. OK, so you sometimes have to reboot even if you have a USB port on your PC.
Army outsourcing program inches closer to reality
After a near two-year delay, the Army's Wholesale Logistics Modernization Program to outsource nearly 500 civilian jobs is scheduled for award in December.
Despite a smaller staff, NIMA does more with maps
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency, which has reduced its work force, is increasingly using commercial technology to fulfill its combat support mission.
DOD pitches for budget boost
One problem for the Defense Department inherent in buying commercial products is that the military cannot take the lead in information technology just by purchasing such products, said DOD's deputy chief information officer.
Media converters extend networks via single-mode
The Long Haul family of media converters from Transition Networks Inc. of Minneapolis claims to extend networks up to 80 kilometers via single-mode fiber.
Cisco Systems networking enhancements link Windows apps with IBM mainframes
An enhancement to Cisco Systems Inc.'s Internetwork Operating System will extend TCP/IP router access to IBM Corp. mainframe resources.
FBI's data is on a national net
The FBI is connecting its Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) with the Criminal Justice Information Services network, a nationwide WAN installed in 1997 to transfer digital fingerprint files.
INTERNAUT
Was anyone surprised when the White House moved last month to ease controls on exporting encryption software? Does anyone really think the Clinton administration has given up trying to control how such software is used internationally?
Corps of Engineers upgrades Crays to simulate clearing of land mines
The Army Corps of Engineers has upgraded its SGI Cray T3E-900 supercomputer to a 544-processor T3E-1200E model.
EZSurvey 99 assembles data collected via Web and intranets
Raosoft Inc. has automated downloading and processing of data collected from Web and intranet sites in the latest version of EZSurvey 99 for the Internet.
Ricoh's CD-RW drive uses drag-and-drop files for recording
Despite affordable drives and media, the CD-recordable and CD-rewritable market is still out of the mainstream. Yet any user who needs to move around large bits of data, archive files or publish data either internally or externally needs a CD-R or CD-RW drive to do it.
The market for RISC processors reflects the need for speed
Not long ago, a processor running at better than 100 MHz was noteworthy. Today that's considered a sluggard's pace.
RISC SERVERS
A little over a decade ago, designers of reduced-instruction-set computing, or RISC, processors stormed into the systems arena with a radical idea. Build a processor with a simpler, more elegant architecture that would execute just one instruction per clock cycle instead of many, and you could end up with a smaller, faster CPU capable of delivering turbocharged processing.
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