Clinger-Cohen amendment stresses information security
With the passage of the 9/11 Intelligence bill yesterday, agencies now will have to do a better job of including cybersecurity in the planning and acquisition phases of systems development.
FDA requires food supply records
The Food and Drug Administration will require food manufacturers and transporters to keep records of all products they handle, a move that could have an impact on the data systems used to track food.
Call for agency privacy officers meets resistance
Rep. Tom Davis is taking a stand against what he thinks is the added bureaucracy that would result if agencies are required to name chief privacy officers.
HP's smart-phone alternative
The Treo 650 and BlackBerry 7100t are handheld computers that are arguably more cell phone than personal digital assistant.
The Best Products of 2004
The GCN Lab looks at over 300 products a year, many of them quite good.
Give 'em a hand: Leading PDAs duke it out
For years, the BlackBerry gang and Palm crew had little reason to squabble.
The lowdown on network printers
You can't make a network printer out of an inexpensive desktop unit simply by adding a network interface card.
Reliable type
Printers have come a long way since the days when lumbering impact printers attached to mainframes and standalone PCs pumped out ASCII text symbols on reams of paper that jammed almost as often as they ran freely.
DOD strives to make sure other agencies Get It Right
The Defense Department wants to make sure agencies its contracting officers do business with are getting it right.
Guard unit gives digital dashboard a test drive
When a military aircraft is shot down, rescuing survivors is a critical mission.
Microsoft's next OS will have IPv6 built in
Microsoft Corp. is making IPv6 the foundation of its next major operating system release, codenamed Longhorn.
GAO tells Forest Service to recompete Recreation One-Stop
GAO has recommended reopening the competition to provide a national park reservation system for all national parks under Recreation One-Stop.
Marines solicit proposals for interoperability project
The Marine Corps is searching for technical and engineering support at its Joint Interoperability of Tactical Command and Control Systems project.
With IPv6, DOD is again an Internet leader
DOD's push toward IP Version 6 is helping the nation catch up with the next generation of protocols, said Alex Lightman, chairman of the U.S. IPv6 Summit.
Davis recommends incentives to draw more contractors to Networx
Rep. Tom Davis said Federal Supply Service's Networx telecommunications program can generate greater industry participation making it worth their while.
DOD falls short of asset visibility goal
The department has missed its 2004 goal of achieving total asset visibility of roughly $70 billion in inventory and faces impediments to reaching its revised 2010 target.
Air Force will merge CIO, warfighting and comm units
Air Force secretary James Roche has asked CIO John Gilligan to work himself out of a job.
Power User: Products, services and tips for a happy holiday
Despite the many things I complain about in this column, a lot of the products and services I test are quite good.
Editorial Cartoon
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