VA awards record contract to service-disabled, vet-owned business
The Veterans Affairs Department awarded MicroTech LLC a contract worth up to $365 million for Microsoft products and services over six years.
DHS Special Report | Learning Tool Takes Some of the Load Off of Port Personnel
The automated scene understanding tool being developed for the Coast Guard amounts to more than another pair of eyes. It collects data on vessel movements, compares them with established parameters and alerts operators of any anomalies. That frees staff to make decisions on what to do about it.
Sidebar | DHS hoping the past is not prologue
While pursuing successful projects, the Homeland Security Department is aware of the risks, as its history is littered with projects that have failed or struggled mightily. Among them:
Online extra | DHS needs to win over some employees
Homeland Security Department employees as a whole hold relatively low opinions of their department's performance in several respects, according to an Office of Personnel Management survey.
DHS Special Report | Coast Guard Fine-Tunes Its Harbor Watch
Under the cloak of night, a vessel quietly floated in the channel waters at the entrance to the busy cargo, cruise and petroleum seaport of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
DHS Special Report | FEMA maps out a better response
While withstanding a storm of criticism for its response to recent large-scale natural disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has continued to make substantial investments in its geospatial and flood-mapping operations. In the long term, geospatial technology should help FEMA become more effective in its core missions of disaster response and hazard mitigation, officials said.
DHS Special Report | Secret Service stays on the trail of funny money
When it comes to IT-enabled crime, counterfeiters have gained some helpful tools. But standing in the way of wannabe counterfeiters is the Secret Service, which is using other technological advances to thwart and catch them.
The database of databases
The Internet and IP-based networks have gone a long way toward removing barriers between agencies. To further a spirit of cooperation, agencies are also beginningto share information from disparate databases by sending some of that data to common data warehouses, where it can be merged, queried and analyzed.
GCN Lab Review | A scanner for all reasons
When we first received the tiny, 17-ounce DocketPort DS485-90 scanner from Ambir Technology, we were skeptical. We've seen small-scale scanners before,and the performance level claimed by this device'six pages per minute induplex mode at 600 dots per inch'seemed a bit much.
GCN Lab Review | Tape drives, meet disks
It seems network administrators and computer users alike are constantly in need of more storage. And while most users are encouraged to save to the network in order to take advantage of the LAN's backup system, it is not always feasible or efficient to do so, much as administrators may wish otherwise.
Modern Relics
The National Institute of Standards and Technology hosted a workshop onlong-term knowledge retention, looking for answers to the questions of what digital data should be saved and how it should be saved.
And Another Thing
Texas' latest plan to shore up its border with Mexico involves, in one respect, turning it into a sort of 1,200-mile Neighborhood Watch program, via the Web.
The Community
Some federal employees passing through Washington's L'Enfant Plazaon their way to work earlier this month got some payback for their commute,as part of a promotion by the public-private Telework Exchange.
Location-aware services: one more thing to worry about
A new generation of location-based services threatens to open up a whole new can of worms in the debate over privacy.
Neal Fox | Contracting in perspective: GSA Networx ' Will it connect with users?
GSA Networx, the next-generation telecom and networking contract from the GeneralServices Administration, has garnered its share of news. That's good for magazine sales but bad for GSA, which announced a surprising eight-month delay inthe contract award shortly after proposals were received in October 2005.
Tom Temin | Editor's Desk: When less means more
You might have read about professor-media thinker-consultant NicholasNegroponte's project to get governments of poor countries to buy $100 computersfor their children. He described the project when speaking at the recent Management of Change conference of the American Council for Technology.
Steven Law | E-gov's Ardent Activist
Steven Law is the second deputy secretary of the Labor Department to head the President's Management Council's E-government Committee. It's no surprise that the Office of Management and Budget continues to tap Labor Department leaders.
Incoming
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded a contract for $1 million toMerlin Technical Solutions Inc. to provide service-oriented architecture governanceproducts for the agency's Net-Enabled Command Capability and Net-Centric EnterpriseServices initiatives.
Network science project
Transforming the Defense Department into an integrated, globally networked organization will cost between $30 billion and $50 billion and be as challenging asthe Manhattan Project. And it is a long way from becoming a reality. Those are two key findings of <i>Network Science 2006</i>, a report ordered by the Army's director of research and laboratory management.
Doan starts tenure at GSA with splash
Lurita Doan promised one thing in her first public address since taking the reins at the General Services Administration last month'change. Her first big one was bringing in Jim Williams, the program manager for one of the government's highest-profile, politically toughest challenges'the U.S. Visit project at the Homeland Security Department.
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