McArthur named Navy deputy CIO
The Navy has named Vice Adm. James D. McArthur to be deputy CIO. He'll lead the newly established Enterprise IT Transformation Office.
GPO has insurance plan for print disasters
A flexible disaster recovery agreement would cover agency print crises at three levels'mechanical failure, building outages or regional disaster.
NARA tests grid computing for preservation
The National Archives and Records Administration is running a prototype grid computing network to test how well it can preserve electronic materials.
Harvey confirmed as Army secretary
Francis J. Harvey won Senate confirmation yesterday as the secretary of the Army.
FDA to e-track popular drugs
The Food and Drug Administration will use RFID technology to track the nation's drug supply to reduce counterfeiting.
System backups made easy
Quick question for all you feds out there: How many of you regularly back up your data files on all your computers, including notebooks and home PCs?
Sony LCD is a wide screen for your PC
The trend toward stretching liquid crystal displays into letterbox-style rectangles started with televisions and presentation monitors, quickly spreading to the screens in notebook PCs.
MapInfo brings GIS to the masses
With a lot of mapping software, functionality is about three things: location, location and location.
Newest Palm puts on a burst of speed
In the past, our biggest complaint in the GCN Lab concerning PalmOne handhelds had to do with the 66-MHz Motorola and 126-MHz Texas Instruments chips many of these devices came with.
The lowdown on RAD tools
<b>What are they?</b> RAD tools are software that can be used to quickly build applications others can use.
Rapid, really
Rapid application development in the 1990s was, generally speaking, a contradiction in terms.
DOD revs up satellite strategy
The military intends to launch special-purpose satellites for global communications over the next two decades, at a total cost of $18 billion.
Electronic medical records go into combat
As an Army medic responding to medical emergencies in Macedonia in the early 1990s, Sgt. Tommy Morris thought there had to be a better way to keep patients' records.
Feed the Network
The Defense Department was on to something when it came across a new way to send out press releases and contract announcements'an Extensible Markup Language flavor called RSS.
Air Force secretary resigns, not unexpectedly
Secretary of the Air Force James Roche, who has served in the position since 2001, announced his resignation yesterday.
Editorial Cartoon
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Significa
The Federal Judicial Center's site at <a href= "http://www.fjc.gov">www.fjc.gov</a> has a narrative and excerpts from court documents about the Amistad case, which was a sensation in the 1840s and became a movie more than 150 years later.
Major programs within DISA
<b>Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion:</b> Through the $900 million program, DISA is creating a Synchronous Optical Network with throughput of 10 Gbps to handle classified and unclassified data.
DISA moves ahead with VOIP
Warfighters in Iraq are making phone calls over the Internet.
Needed: self-configuring networks
Army Col. Timothy Gibson is no stranger to strange ideas.
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