HHS gives IT health a booster shot
Throughout his career at the Health and Human Services Department, Charles Havekost has never strayed far from the grants process'beginning with pushing paper as a lowly technical assistant to directing streamlined systems today as its CIO.
Frist shuffles Senate committee assignments
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has announced proposed changes in committee chairmanships and memberships for the 109th Congress.
Former DOD bigwigs to advise IT services vendor
David Borland, former deputy CIO for the Army, and Edward A. Hart, former deputy director of information security for the National Security Agency, have joined a new advisory board at Data Systems Analysts.
First TacSat launch delayed till March
The planned January debut of the Defense Department's first tactical microsatellite has been postponed at least a month.
Navy hires ManTech to help with C2 training
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center has awarded a $76 million training contract to ManTech International Corp.
What's that you say? Language researchers can't quite say yet
Accurate machine capture of content from spoken and text language is proceeding slowly under a four-year-old NIST program.
NGA assisting in tsunami relief efforts
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is using satellite imagery to assess the damage caused by the tsunami that struck in the Indian Ocean last week.
NAVSEA awards IT support contract
The Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded a $69 million contract to Anteon International Corp. of Fairfax, Va., for IT support.
DHS deploys U.S. Visit at major land entry points
The Homeland Security Department has rolled out its virtual border system at the 50 busiest land crossings into the United States.
GSA close to finalizing SmartBuy deal with IBM
The General Services Administration has hooked a big one for SmartBuy, its enterprise software licensing program.
NOAA chief calls for global ocean sensing
After the deadly Indian Ocean tsunamis last week, the chief of NOAA is calling for a Global Ocean Observing System.
FBI plans to build new case management system from scratch
The Justice Department's Inspector General Ofice has concluded that the FBI's Virtual Case File project won't succeed.
GSA to charge $2,500 for Web services access to procurement data
The General Services Administration has set a one-time fee of $2,500 for a continuous feed from the new Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation.
SBA: Some contracts to large firms counted as small-biz deals
About $2 billion in federal contracts were miscoded as going to small businesses in fiscal 2002, the Small Business Administration's advocacy office said.
Justice IG: Counterterror data sharing stalled
The Justice Department still cannot check the vast majority of U.S. visitors against the FBI's criminal master file, department's IG said today
CMS to apply business rules engines to claims processing
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has requested information on two technologies that could revolutionize the way health care claims are settled.
Energy funds open-source performance tool
The Energy Department has contracted SGI to develop an open-source version of its high-performance computer-testing software.
DHS chooses E-Travel vendor
Homeland Security has set a deal with E-Travel vendor EDS for electronic-travel services for the department.
UAVs assist urban warfare exercise
The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit this month conducted a two-week urban warfare exercise with streaming imagery and sensor data from two unmanned aerial vehicles.
New DOD group will focus on geospatial data standards
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has created the Geospatial Intelligence Standards Technical Working Group as a forum for exchanging ideas and developing data-sharing standards.
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