CDC weaving national information web
The Health and Human Services Department's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding its nationwide BioSense biosurveillance program.
Health IT gets into gear
David Brailer is a doctor by trade, but as the national coordinator for health IT, he is proving to be more of an engineer.
GSA to hold Networx transition conference for agencies
Although the contracts will not be awarded until next spring and summer, the General Services Administration is planning a conference later this year to explore how agencies will transition to GSA's $20 billion Networx telecommunications vehicles, a key agency official has said.
DHS postpones IT services contract award
The Homeland Security Department will delay until June the award for the Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge solutions.
GSA set to issue RFIs for new lines of business
The General Services Administration plans to release requests for information and hold industry days for the three new lines of business'IT infrastructure, geospatial and budget formulation'in the middle of this month.
Under pressure, VA management begins IT reorg
The Veterans Affairs Department's CIO officially began to take over control of IT operations and maintenance late last month, despite resistance from agency top management.
Phoenix recruits resellers, integrators
Phoenix Technologies is recruiting federal resellers and integrators to advance its device authentication product, which may get a boost from a recent Federal Information Processing Standard publication.
Census awards $600m field data contract for the 2010 count
The Census Bureau today awarded Harris Corp. of Melbourne, Fla., the five-year, $600 million Field Data Collection Automation project contract. The field data project will integrate the multiple automated systems required to obtain data securely and efficiently for the 2010 Census.
House looks at failure of eMerge2
The Homeland Security Department is to be commended for moving so swiftly last year to cancel eMerge2, the program to consolidate the numerous disparate financial systems scattered through the Homeland Security Department, according to members of two House subcommittees.
Labor starts A-76 competition for over 300 management, technical support jobs
The Labor Department has launched an analysis to determine if it would be more cost-effective to turn over to the private sector 330 jobs that support assorted administrative and technical support services.
Energy inks $2.5b deal with Northrop Grumman team for test site management
<font color="CC0000">(Updated)</font color> The contracting team will handle everything from remote field experiments to the fabrication and testing of various electronic, mechanical and structural systems at DOE's Nevada Test Site.
Defense agency calls on AT&T for network circuits
AT&T Government Solutions Inc. has won orders totaling $8.2 million to provide 36 secure, high-capacity circuits to the Defense Information Systems Agency.
Army, CTC in pact for network control switching system
The Army has ordered a new system that automates switching and record keeping processes and reduces the amount of equipment and resources necessary to perform communications testing.
Xandros Desktop 3.0 Business Edition
If you're worried that users won't be able to adjust to a Linux desktop, given their Windows mind-set, then Xandros is the way to go. In fact, there are very few differences between a Xandros desktop and Windows 2000.
Novell SUSE Linux 10
SUSE 10 has many of the same features as version 9.1, but with a greater emphasis on security. The biggest addition is Novell's AppArmor, which, like SELinux, is a way the OS can detect unauthorized access to programs and system applications.
Mandriva Linux 2006
After we finally wrestled Mandriva into place, we found the overall interface fairly crude compared with Fedora Core. While we had no trouble with Internet access, the Mandriva OS had trouble connecting and sharing files with our Windows network.
Ubuntu Linux 5.10
Ubuntu represents the best and worst of open-source programming. On the one hand, there is a rather diverse community of people adding new productivity applications to this free program. But on the other, there does not seem to be any official support network if things go wrong.
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