A boy, a dog and embedded references to Windows 7
Fox cartoon will air "commercial free," but will contain embedded references to Windows 7
New remote-sensing satellite to offer expanded services
A new high-resolution, remote-sensing satellite successfully launched into orbit Oct. 8 will boost data collection capacity and offer expanded services to civilian and defense customers.
Now you, too, can count the seconds until Windows 7's release
Free countdown clock tracks the seconds so you don’t have to.
GCN's 2009 Executives of the Year
This year's honorees -- former Rep. Tom Davis, Martha Dorris, Rob Carey and Jim Lewis -- demonstrate the powerful role that IT innovations can play in improving the way government agencies accomplish their missions.
11 great government IT projects
We highlight 10 high-impact IT projects in government projects — and the men and women behind them — that have earned this year’s GCN Award for Agency IT Achievement.
Making an impact with IT
If the projects honored with the year's GCN Awards have anything in common, it is the increasing degree to which information systems are connecting more seamlessly to other systems in new and sometimes innovative ways.
3M projector tries to be all things to all conference rooms
3M’s SCP716 projector falls short in ease of use; offers intuitive software but has a confusing setup.
New HP TouchSmart notebooks, monitors let you feel your way
Hewlett-Packard unveils latest line of TouchSmart products, ready for Windows 7.
Project at a glance: Army Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care
Since 2003, more than 12 million electronic patient interactions have been captured via MC4, and 750 units with medical staff in 14 countries have been equipped with MC4.
Tom Davis made the connection between technology and reform
During seven terms in Congress, Davis led what became the Government Reform Committee and was widely known as the leading congressional expert on technology and procurement.
Project at a glance: U.S. Postal Service's Product Tracking System upgrade
USPS chose to deploy portions of the Product Tracking System on Linux, running the Cobol application through modernization software — minimizing the amount of code modifications required.
Moving to Linux, modernizing software helps USPS lower computing costs
The U.S. Postal Service upgraded its Product Tracking System in order to increase the number of packages the system could process, but information technology officials also had another goal: to reduce, by 50 percent, the cost per millions of instruction per second
Library of Congress preservation program works with millions of items, terabytes of data in a full spectrum of formats
With more than 100 million physical items already in its collections and new digital material coming in by the terabyte, the Library of Congress is developing standards, specifications and tools to help ensure that this material remains accessible to future generations.
After a switch to Linux, IT shop modernizes 15-year-old Cobol system without altering code
USPS switched to Linux and upgraded its 15-year-old product tracking system by deploying it within the existing mainframe environment – running the legacy Cobol application through modernization software – without altering any lines of code.
Entity resolution helps FBI's N-Dex system connect the dots
Entity resolution is a software process that can discern the likelihood, for instance, that James Smith and Jim Smith are the same person.
DOD bar code/database system proved inexpensive to develop and easy to use
The Patient Movement Items Tracking System ensures that the necessary medical equipment travels with wounded soldiers as they are moved from the battlefield to a hospital.
Project at a glance: FBI National Data Exchange
Built on the FBI’s service-oriented architecture with secure entry through the existing Law Enforcement Online Web portal, investigators report success stories in identifying leads to make arrests they wouldn’t have found before N-Dex’s debut last year.
Library develops tools to bag and tag data for large file transfers
The BagIt specification was developed to provide a standard package format that could be used to simplify transfer of large files between institutions that gather and preserve digital data.
Army's MC4 comprehensive electronic medical records help improve care for the wounded
The Army’s MC4 program is doing away with paper battlefield medical records and improving health care for wounded warriors.
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