NOAA team uses GPS to size up monumental task
New York's World Trade Center buildings: 1,758 feet. The Empire State Building: 1,454 feet. Chicago's Sears Tower: also 1,454 feet.
OS/390 release boosts e-commerce security
Release 8 of OS/390 Version 2, which runs on IBM's S/390 enterprise servers, will have new security features for electronic commerce applications.
Navy links satellite data to track titanic iceberg
The National Naval Ice Center is using an elaborate communications system to track an iceberg the size of Rhode Island that entered shipping lanes between Antarctica and South America two weeks ago.
CIO Council adds privacy to strategic goals
The Chief Information Officers Council has added privacy to its strategic goals and is fine-tuning new itineraries for its committees.
Treasury agency takes slow route to a new OS
A different kind of year 2000 issue is hitting one Treasury Department agency as it migrates to a new network operating system.
Alternatives to 2.4-GHz systems run into bandwidth, range and interference problems
In weighing your options on wireless LANs, it is important not to confuse them with wireless metropolitan area networks or cellular telephone networks.
WIRELESS LANS
Now might be the time to consider a wireless LAN for your organization. The industry is hammering out standards and settling interoperability problems. And more products become available every month as the market for wireless LANs, now at $ 1 billion, grows by 40 percent to 60 percent annually.
Domino gives war game participants a comm link
Although the Air Force has standardized on Microsoft Exchange for the Defense Message System, the service is showing there's room for Lotus Development Corp.'s rival product.
Base replaces contract system
Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., recently became the first Air Force base where all contracting officers use the Standard Procurement System.
Air Force
Since April 1997, Lt. Gen. William J. Donahue has been director of the Air Force Communications and Information Center, where he is responsible for strategic plans, doctrine, policies, architecture and standards for communications and information systems for the service.
IRS knows it has to do it right this time
Al Mazei is managing the IRS' modernization effort. The Treasury Department agency in December recommitted itself to upgrading its antiquated tax system by awarding the 15-year Prime contract'potentially worth $5 billion'to Computer Sciences Corp.
Feds say budget process impedes IT success
The federal budget process is one of the biggest hindrances to the effective management of information technology projects, said 11 program managers who gathered this spring for an Association for Federal Information Resources Management roundtable.
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
George F. Allen has accepted a position on the board of directors of Xybernaut Corp. of Fairfax, Va. Allen, a former governor of Virginia, will help market the company's newest wearable computer product, the MA-IV.
Project aims to modernize data preservation process
The National Archives and Records Administration is looking to streamline the processes agencies use to preserve federal records, an effort that has been driven by the increase in electronic records.
NARA taken to task on electronic record-keeping
The management of electronic records varies across the government, but the National Archives and Records Administration does not have a sense of where most agencies stand, the General Accounting Office has reported.
Navigating federal Web sites is hit or miss
Federal agencies' Web sites continue to improve. For the most part, they are easy to find and have many useful documents. But they are far from perfect, and I would like to share some recent experiences, both good and bad.
The Y2K Act promises more than it can deliver
No doubt you have heard that Congress has passed, and President Clinton has reluctantly signed, the Y2K Act. The act will not necessarily deliver anyone from legal troubles over the so-called millennium bug.
Letters to the Editor
The proof is in the savings
Editorial
Folks sometimes complain that newspapers don't print good news. Well, editors like good news, too, and many government success stories have made the pages of GCN lately.
NT is outpacing Unix as OS of choice for joint intelligence system
The largest national joint intelligence program began fielding applications for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 last November, making it one of the first intelligence systems to migrate to the 32-bit operating system.
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