The lowdown on wireless LAN
A guide to wireless LAN products is necessarily rife with acronyms.
WiFi grows up
For several years now, wireless local area networks (WLANs) have proven to be a cheap and easy way to set up a home network, or to get on the Web in one of the public hot spots in metropolitan areas, airports and coffee shops.
Acrobat dazzles with new tricks
Other than perhaps Web browsers, no program has facilitated more cross-platform document sharing than Adobe Systems Inc.'s Acrobat series of products.
Getting there from here
It could wind up being the next check-box, must-have feature for mobile computing devices. It's already in cars and many cell phones.
DHS, Mythics Inc. in $23 million Oracle SmartBuy pact
The Homeland Security Department has awarded a contract for Oracle Corp. software and services initially worth $23 million under the General Services Administration's SmartBuy program.
DISA solicits circuit bids
The Defense Information Systems Agency released an RFP for up to 5,000 circuits valued at $500 million late today.
Senate panel advances DHS budget bill
A Senate Appropriations subcommittee has approved a Homeland Security Department budget for fiscal 2006 of $30.8 billion, a cut of 3 percent from the $31.9 billion departmental budget passed by the House May 18.
Internaut: IT projects still on hold? Here's why
One of this year's big paradoxes in federal IT spending is that budgets have gone up, but overall spending seems to have slowed.
GCN INSIDER: Trends and technologies that affect the way government does IT
Yes, we nod, we understand the potential need for mobile storage area networks, such as the one Xiotech Corp. of Eden Prairie, Minn., introduced today.
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Executive suite: Putting the Clinger-Cohen Act in perspective
It's been nearly a decade since Rep. William Clinger (R-Pa.) and Sen. William Cohen (R-Maine) put the finishing touches on the landmark legislation, the Information Technology Management Reform Act.
EVM still a mystery to most feds
The Office of Management and Budget is strenuously pushing earned-value management as a project-management tool and requiring agencies to adopt policies for using EVM.
Senate bill would codify national health IT standards
Sens. Bill Frist and Hillary Rodham Clinton are cosponsoring legislation that would help create an interoperable health IT system through the adoption of standards.
A fine line on LOB
Agency CIOs face a broad array of issues and concerns in adapting the Office of Management and Budget's Lines-of-Business initiatives into their enterprise architectures.
AFFIRM honors Holcomb, others for executive leadership
Lee Holcomb, whose work on NASA's Voyager mission earlier in his career imbued him with the notion to dream big, received the Association for Federal Information Resources Management's highest honor earlier this week.
Justice unit turns to AT&T for prison bed work
Inmates can rest assured they'll get a good night's sleep thanks to a Web-based repository that lets federal officials quickly find available bed space for them.
EPA pilots capability to file once, use often
The agency will streamline reporting for its Toxics Release Inventory by enabling companies in three states to submit their annual accounting of dangerous chemical releases once to EPA's Central Data Exchange using the TRI-ME reporting software.
Seats of responsibility
Where seat management works, it's a godsend; where it doesn't, it's probably the agency's own fault.
Air Force takes gradual approach to its portal
The Air Force's approach to building a one-for-all portal has been a bit like a preflight checklist: to take it one step at a time.
Espiritu to lead DISA's Net-Centric Enterprise Services program
Rita Espiritu, who has more than 25 years of experience in IT program and acquisition management, is the new program manager for NCES, one of five pillar programs of the Defense Department's transformation efforts.
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