These packages are gifts for groupware
Describing groupware is like drawing a diagram with a 5-inch brush and watercolors. You end up with an abstraction that fails to convey much about streamlining the information flow in workgroups.
System blends data to draw an environmental map
One picture is said to be worth a thousand words, and an application at the Environmental Protection Agency puts that truism to use for environmental data.
EPA waives civil penalties for some violations caused by 2000 testing
Mission-critical systems at the Environmental Protection Agency are year 2000-ready, but the agency is focusing on drinking water, chemicals and waste to prove systems preparedness.
EPA
Alvin M. Pesachowitz, chief information officer at the Environmental Protection Agency, has been with the agency since 1971 and has served in a number of posts. Most recently he has been involved in the major reorganization of the CIO's office into a new information technology unit by Oct. 1. Although Pesachowitz may not be CIO in the new organization, he said he will play a key role in the new office.
Intel's mobile processors rival desktop speeds
Mobile processors from Intel Corp. are stepping on the accelerator, and users can expect to see even more bursts of horsepower for some time to come.
U.are.U fingerprint scanner keeps access to your PC personal
Not only do I remember the days before PCs, but I once knew how to program the breadboard for an IBM Corp. card sorter. Installing new hardware and software has always been a hassle, but we're making progress.
Security Peripherals
The government needs to keep secrets, whether they are about national security or a citizen's medical records. And most government secrets are kept on computer systems, a fact that can complicate the task of keeping them secret.
Navy extends distance-learning software contract for civilian and Defense students
Having extended a computer-based training software contract through September, Navy officials will deploy the software to 200,000 far-flung Marines and sailors.
DOD places orders for school supplies: 3,600 PCs with DVD drives for plebes
Amid the rush of final exams and graduation late last month, officials at the three Defense Department service academies were issuing delivery orders for up to 3,600 desktop PCs with DVD-ROM drives for incoming students.
Services pick all-in-one units
In part spurred by Operation Allied Force, Army and Marine Corps intelligence specialists in recent months have ordered 450 mobile office system units.
Briefing Book
Army Y2K update. Lt. Gen. William H. Campbell, the Army chief information officer, said the service's mission-critical systems are well on their way to becoming year 2000- ready by year's end.
Secure Dial-in Program lets IRS field teams connect over a virtual private network
The IRS is implementing a virtual private network that will let as many as 30,000 employees make secure dial-in connections from the field with their notebook PCs.
DSL is next hot comm service
Digital subscriber lines in various flavors have emerged as the top choice for delivering broadband network connections over the last mile'or the last five miles or so'of the existing telecommunications infrastructure.
INTERNAUT
Anyone interested in the Internet's future has at least a passing interest in the Java language. Though not the be-all and end-all of Net development, as we once were told, Java continues to pop up in fascinating new applications. And the ongoing soap opera between Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. over control of the standard deserves a made-for-TV movie.
Feds seek image quality on big displays
For feds who use large monitors, image is everything.
He knows what counts for Census, IRS
After 22 years in the Navy, Jerry B. Agee knows what the government requires from a systems integrator.
PROFESSIONAL CALENDAR
13-15 Excellence in Government '99Conference. Washington. Contact the National Partnership for Reinventing Government; phone: 800-868-9445; Web: www.excelgov.com.
Bargain 17-inch Monitors
Chances are you've seen plenty of advertisements for $999 computer systems complete with monitor, a 433-MHz Intel Celeron processor, 64M of RAM, a 10G hard drive and a few other goodies such as a V.90 fax modem and possibly a cheap color ink-jet printer.
@INFO.POLICY
Every federal agency faces the same privacy requirements because every agency is subject to the Privacy Act of 1974. For those who are not Privacy Act specialists, the law can be a confusing welter of privacy and records management requirements. The act is actually organized around a framework known as fair information practices, but the framework is invisible to the casual observer.
FEDERAL CONTRACT LAW
A congressional clampdown is looming over the increased abuse of task order contracts.
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