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EDITOR'S DESK: Gates on labor
For a man whose company was once chided for ignoring the value of maintaining a presence in Washington, Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates made more than a little splash in town late last month.
Desktop PCs cycle onward in government offices
Waiting for a new desktop PC?
Army robotics program keeps rollin' along
The Army is continuing to invest in next-generation robotic ground vehicles as part of its Future Combat Systems project.
Incoming
The Air Force's 45th Space Wing has awarded a contract for unmanned space vehicle launches to Space Coast Launch Services LLC, a Computer Sciences Corp.-led joint venture with Shaw Group Inc. of Baton Rouge, La.
GAO uncovers wireless holes
BY Michael Arnone The wireless networks that many federal agencies use in their Washington, D.C. offices lack essential safeguards to keep information secure, the Government Accountability Office reported today.
Donley tapped for DOD management planning post
The Office of the Secretary of Defense has named Michael B. Donley director of administration and management.
Transportation plan targets rail safety
The Transportation Department has unveiled a national plan to improve railroad safety by deploying new technologies.
Montana VISITS with Siebel
Siebel Public Sector will provide a news system for the state's Promotion Division.
Amber Alerts arrive wirelessly
Wireless companies and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children formed an initiative to deliver Amber Alerts wirelessly.
HHS posts health IT contract plans
The Health and Human Services Department has released presolicitation notices for the development of a nationwide health information network architecture and a process for interoperability of electronic health records.
PTO listens to appeals from cyberhearing room
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has launched an electronic capability for hearing patent and trademark appeals from remote locations.
Nemx seeks fed resellers
The company's SecurExchange product monitors circulating Microsoft Exchange e-mail.
House committee likely to cut HealtheVet funds
A House Appropriations panel has stripped funding for VA's new hospital computing system because the agency provided no details about how it would spend the money.
Sentinel project to replace FBI's abandoned Virtual Case File effort
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED)</font> ' The FBI is poised to launch what it calls the Sentinel project to build, among other things, a case management system to replace the defunct Virtual Case File system.
PACKET RAT: Sun's swing toward open-source knocks the Rat for a loop
The house was full at the Reagan Federal Building auditorium for Sun Microsystems' quarterly 'Network Computing' road show'which is what happens every time someone mentions a free lunch in Washington.
The community: Merger talks
The respective bosses of the Federal Technology Service and the Federal Supply Service talked about the organizations' pending merger during a session at the FSI 20th Annual Federal Outlook Conference held on April 12 in McLean, Va. FTS acting commissioner Barbara Shelton, left, and FSS commissioner Donna Bennett joined a lineup of other speakers in looking at what lies ahead for IT and procurement in the government.
HHS, Congress begin push for health care IT
The Health and Human Services Department and House and Senate lawmakers last week kicked off campaigns to press for adoption of health care IT.
Bill seeks a DOD manager to tackle business system woes
For more than a decade, Congress has warned Defense Department leaders to get a better handle on their business systems.
Davis' bill would pare down GSA's regional offices
In merging the Federal Technology and Federal Supply services, the General Services Administration will likely make significant cuts to the management ranks of the services' 22 regional offices.
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