Postal Service digitizes stamp sales via the Internet
The Postal Service added digital postage to its stamp collection last month, using public-key infrastructure for security.
FEMA sends out five mobile units to help in state and local recovery
The Federal Emergency Management Agency deployed five mobile operating units from across the country to support state and local governments in their Hurricane Floyd recovery efforts.
Forecasting system gives the Navy plenty of lead time to protect fleet
Ocean and weather forecast modeling software running under Unix on supercomputers let Navy officials give colleagues five days' notice that Hurricane Floyd would make landfall in the Carolinas.
Systems fire an arrow into heart of the hurricane
Airborne computer systems that have helped predict hurricane movement more accurately were instrumental in forecasting the track of Hurricane Floyd as it teased Florida, battered North Carolina and continued up the East Coast, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official said.
Treasury plans to give its CIO more departmentwide authority
The Treasury Department plans to give its chief information officer more control over systems departmentwide, CIO James Flyzik said last week.
ACES contract spurs feds' online interests
Online transactions between agencies and citizens moved a step closer to reality this month when the General Services Administration awarded the first governmentwide digital certificate services contract.
GSA, union tussle over warehouse closures
Despite a union arbitrator's ruling that directed the General Services Administration to halt the closing of eight supply warehouses, GSA plans to proceed with the closures and move to direct vendor sales via online ordering.
Cautions still run high over systems readiness
The federal government has its year 2000 preparations well in hand, although eight states and Washington, D.C., are not prepared to administer federal programs, the Senate's year 2000 committee reported last week.
PACKET RAT
There's a reason why agencies make disaster plans, as the Rat recently was reminded. His plan got a full workout when Hurricane Floyd plowed up the East Coast.
Clemins leaves IT advances in his wake
As Adm. Archie R. Clemins prepares to sail into retirement next month after 33 years of service, he leaves behind a high-tech legacy in the form of the Information Technology for the 21st Century initiative.
Systems management vendor BMC branches into professional services
Systems management vendor BMC Software Inc. is packaging installation, consulting and training services for its software products, which serve as the plumbing behind information technology systems, said J.A. 'Chip' Nemesi, vice president of professional services.
Visio 2000 editions will extend graphic modeling to the Web
Graphical software from Visio Corp. of Seattle will extend its reach to the Web through four Visio 2000 editions appearing over the next few months.
Tool will create a Web portal for disparate data sources
A snap-together business intelligence platform under construction by Cognos Inc. of Ottawa will create a Web portal for mixed enterprise data.
Court finds a software cure
To support its ballooning workload, the U.S. District Court in Portland, Maine, expanded from one server running Microsoft Windows NT to five within three years.
POWER USER
The leading office suite rivals'Microsoft Office 2000, Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 and Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition 9.5'are all out, and WordPerfect looks as robust as Word. It even reads all .doc files.
This little card will give portable users access to ATM on the road
Network interface card manufacturer Ixmicro of San Jose, Calif., is breaking new ground with an asynchronous transfer mode adapter that fits into the CardBus slot of any portable or notebook computer.
Fast NICs
The fast lanes of network connections are getting faster'and just in time.'
Micron replaces suspect hard drives at Air Force base
MONTGOMERY, Ala.'A Desktop V subcontractor went on-site at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, late last year and replaced 500 hard drives after drive failures were reported, Air Force officials said.
GPS rollover causes no serious problems
The Global Positioning System rollover on Aug. 21-22 caused no significant problems for the Air Force, said Col. Delbert B. Atkinson, deputy director of the Standard Systems Group.
There's no blanket over BPAs, SPAWAR's chief says
Contrary to reports, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center has not put a temporary halt to blanket purchasing agreements, its commander said.
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