Spreadsheet software
Can a spreadsheet program have too many bells and whistles?
COUNTY LINES
Good shopping. Hennepin County, Minn., home to the Mall of America's 400 stores, has found a way to combine volunteerism and the nation's unofficial favorite indoor sport'shopping.
Finance systems face changes
Shrewd state and local accounting shops are hammering out plans to comply with recent landmark changes to financial status reporting. Forward-looking systems shops will call on asset management systems to help.
She parcels funds for old, new systems
As Agriculture Department chief information officer, Anne F. Thomson Reed oversees a range of systems projects. One of the most ambitious, she said, is the Service Center Initiative to re-engineer the business processes and develop the Common Computing Environment for 2,500 service centers nationwide.
Weighing only 4.3 pounds, Panasonic's new Toughbook features a CD-ROM drive
Taking aim at government users who want a durable but not necessarily military-rugged notebook PC, Panasonic Personal Computer Co. has integrated a CD-ROM drive into its slimline Toughbook 37.
Agency aims to ID from afar
Recognizing people from a distance is still something the human eye and brain do better than computers. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to teach them how.
POWER USER
Many government Web sites started with good, simple designs because agencies had no time or budget for fancy tinkering. I'd like to thank those first-generation webmasters before they quit designing and leave it to the whiz kids.
ANOTHER VIEW
True or false: The competitive standard for federal government acquisition is full-and-open competition.
THE VIEW FROM INSIDE
The National Partnership for Reinventing Government, formerly the National Performance Review, has sturdier legs than other information technology reform efforts.
Letters to the Editor
The E-Mall and DOD policyAs director of the Joint Electronic Commerce Program Office, I appreciate much of what Stephen M. Ryan said in his recent column, 'DOD's e-commerce plan needs a good push' [GCN, Sept. 6, Page 20]. However, I do not believe his assertion that the process used to become a storefront on the E-Mall accurately represents Defense Department policy.
Editorial
I nominate the Social Security Administration to be the first agency to use the Access Certificates for Electronic Services contract recently awarded by the General Services Administration.
NASA project calls for taking the Internet to Mars
In 2012, U.S. astronauts could use the Internet to communicate from the Martian surface to Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, if designs for the Interplanetary Network go as planned, a NASA official said.
Date code is nearly A-OK
NASA is ready to declare success on the year 2000 front.
Interview: Lee B. Holcomb
Lee B. Holcomb has served as NASA's chief information officer since October 1997. Before becoming CIO, Holcomb served as director for information technology strategy, overseeing IT programs that supported the agency's Aeronautics and Space Transportation Enterprise and the national aerospace industry. He has a master's degree from the California Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Project managers can take stroll on PM Boulevard
Project managers don't need chat rooms: Now they have a Web portal site of their own.
IBM adds a jolt of Java and XML searching capability to the latest version of its DB2
IBM Corp. has reworked its DB2 Universal Database for Linux and the Web's Extensible Markup Language.
Web Application Development Tools
Back in the early days of the Internet boom, a government agency was in the vanguard if it put up a Web site full of single-spaced text files and a search function that allowed people to hunt down the exact wording, say, of Regulation 2795-A, Paragraph 4(d).
INTERNAUT
Most government webmasters are taking heavy-duty precautions these days to close security holes and protect themselves against the hacker graffiti that plague the highest-profile sites.
Five Celeron clients do a balancing act
Desktop client price and performance were going to reach an optimum balance with the recent introduction of the 810 chip set from Intel Corp.'or at least that was the idea.
App-sharing plan leads pack
The city of Worcester is teaching some old Massachusetts municipalities new tricks.
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