Webworks - Traffic statistics for May 1998
Hits: 4.5 million Sessions: 944,000 Site size: About 11,000 pages Unique effort: Home page updated 135 times in June High traffic areas: Main page, tropical storm information section, details on current disasters, picture pages taken with Sony Corp. digital cameras at disaster sites
COLOR laser printers
Laser printers make the grade Most color laser printers are optimized for workgroup service. Within two years, they'll replace high-end color ink-jets in many organizations. Color laser reproduction is adequate for most print jobs. Good printer management software is as important as hardware. Web remote printer management is a good option for large organizations.
TECH REFRESH
Defense Department and intelligence agencies are the target market for two products Pulsar Data Systems Inc. recently added to its General Services Administration Information Technology Schedule and National Institutes of Health Electronic Computer Store II contracts. The 2in1 TSDNet secure communications switch from Voltaire Advanced Data Security Ltd., an Israeli company, can connect a desktop PC to two Ethernets over a single cable.
USDA research group uses TeleMagic to tap multiple databases
The USDA agency needed a way to define its customers and their needs, and how to match the two. The Economic Research Service, the 550-employee research and information arm of the Agriculture Department, has found an application to help it serve citizens. Each day, up to 50 ERS employees man the agency's phones, Web site and mail room to answer requests from a large customer base. ERS workers answer a daily
GSA to decide soon on PC outsourcing protest
The General Services Administration plans to make a decision tomorrow on an agency-level protest of its Seat Management Program awards. Boeing Information Service Inc. filed the protest July 15. In its protest, the Vienna, Va., company claimed that GSA misled vendors about the criteria it would use in evaluating the Seat Management bids.
GCN SNAPSHOT | Education - Who's In Charge
| Education Donald Rappaport Chief Information Officer Hazel Fiers Acting Deputy Chief Information Officer Joseph Tozzi Group Leader, Assistive Technology Debra Schweikert Group Leader, Customer Support and Acquisition Assistance Kent Hannaman Group Leader, Information Management Steven Corey-Bey Group Leader, Special Projects Renaldo Harper Group Leader, Technology Services Sally Budd Director, Communications and Quality Assurance
Major programs | GCN SNAPSHOT
Information Technology Investment Management—Education's chief information officer works with principal offices, budget planners and other federal agencies to see that the department gets the most for its technology dollars. Staff members manage and evaluate investments in information systems. The IT Investment and Capital Planning Group evaluates and proposes systems and recommends improvements. The group works closely with the IT Investment Review Board, which advises the Office of the Secretary on major investments.
FAA will do away with paper in its airline safety inspections
The Federal Aviation Administration is upgrading a system that tracks safety violations among the nation's commercial carriers. The new system, which FAA is testing in Honolulu, will let agency inspectors and officials share aircraft inspection and certification documents over an intranet. FAA's Flight Standards Service has 3,500 inspectors working at 110 field offices. The Operations Specifications Subsystem (OPSS) will let inspectors more easily monitor aircraft safety and certify the skills of flight crews and mechanics, said Dick
Correction
The speed of the chip is 166 MHz, not 200 MHz.
Agencies are behind in ITMRA conformance
+ Most agencies include staff from program, IT and financial offices in the capital planning process. – Few agencies have procedures for ensuring senior management participation. Executive-level investment review boards: + Most agencies have adopted investment review boards. – Few have procedures for senior management to monitor approved projects. + Most agencies link capital planning and budgeting. – Only a few agencies have completed reviews of this process. Cost-benefit and risk analyses: + Virtually all of
BRIEFING BOOK
2000 rollovers. The Army's White Sands Missile Range last month conducted an unusual year 2000 test, which its computer systems passed with flying colors, Army officials said. White Sands, deep in the New Mexico desert, is the Defense Department's premiere test range. The facility relies heavily on computers to measure the performance of missiles and other munitions. This time, however, it tested its own systems.
Date code work is No. 1 priority
Education's Pauline Lynch coordinates the collection of data, abstracts, journal articles, dissertations, statistical reports and case histories on educational topics for the Education Resources Information Center database. The Ask ERIC database resides on a 167-MHz Sun Microsystems Ultra HPC 3000 server with 256M of RAM, a 36G hard drive and 30G of RAID storage. Users can visit Ask ERIC on the Web at http://www.aspensys.com/eric. Related articles Major programs Who's In Charge
AF gets top CMM rating
The Ogden Air Logistics Center's Software Engineering Division is now among the pantheon of software development organizations. Last month the division at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, received the Level 5 Capability Maturity Model designation for its software development work. It is the first government organization to earn the top CMM rating.
Should U.S. pledge not to make first cyberstrike?
During World War II, the United States faced two enemy regimes that deserved to be put down by any means: Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Yet neither the militaries of those regimes nor those of the United States and its allies used the terrible chemical weapons that devastated the Western front late in World War I. Such weapons were difficult to use and would have caused severe counterstrikes by the opponents.
Government webmasters need lots of wiggle room
Hey, agency webmasters, are oversight agencies going to start hopping onto your back? The Justice Department recently issued guidance for managers of federal Web sites. The guidelines cover the implementation of the Electronic Freedom of Information Act. Last November was the deadline for implementation of most of the act's provisions. Six particular agencies may wish that Justice had been more prompt in issuing their recommendations; they were sued by the Naderite group Public Citizen for delay
PEOPLE
Eugene A. Ludwig has completed a five-year term as comptroller of the currency, and Julie L. Williams, chief counsel for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will take his place. American Systems Corp. of Chantilly, Va., has promoted Henry Gruner to director of submarine programs and Ted Lockhart to program manager of its Trident Engineering Support Services contract. Lockhart will also serve as director of surface combatant programs.
Software execs state case for Microsoft antitrust suit
Sen. Patrick Leahy says he wonders whether Congress should rewrite antitrust laws. Executives of large and small software companies gathered on Capitol Hill last month to plead again for enforcement of antitrust laws against Microsoft Corp. Mitchell Kertzman, chief executive officer of Sybase Inc., told the Senate Judiciary Committee investigating Microsoft's business practices that Microsoft abuses monopoly power through intimidation and other practices that "should be viewed as violations of the
Digital's latest and final notebook line hits a HiNote
Pros and cons: + Solid design, above-average performance and battery life – 7.4-pound weight GCNdex32 scores: Digital Gateway HiNote Solo 745 9100 Floating-point math 4.59 4.93 Integer math 7.95 7.77 Video 6.73 7.08 Small-file access 4.52 4.58 Large-file access 4.70 4.74 CD-ROM access 4.31 4.70
An original Net developer joins President's IT Advisory Committee
President Clinton has appointed Robert Elliot Kahn to the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee. Kahn, of McLean, Va., is chairman of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives. The presidential committee advises the administration on systems issues, with an emphasis on ways to bolster future systems and communications R&D efforts. Originally formed to focus on high-performance computing and communications, the group has expanded its agenda to other IT topics. It was formerly known as the Advisory Committee on High-Performance
Labor promotes IT programming job openings on Web
The Labor Department's online job bank now has a section exclusively for information technology and year 2000 positions. "The Clinton administration wants to call attention to the Y2K problem and the need for more IT workers," said Jim Vollman, associate assistant secretary in the Employment and Training Administration. Clinton this month announced the America's Job Bank IT program at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington. In his speech, Clinton called for the public and private sectors
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