The OS game: Old hands, new deal
Desktop and server operating systems have always been the black holes of the software world: they tend to absorb the useful utilities, technologies and practical little applications of day-to-day computing.
CIO Council group lists ways to improve e-records management
OMB and NARA need to improve accountability and managerial support, and create an advisory board to enhance management of e=-ecords, a report said.
GIG-BE is at 10 sites and counting ...
The Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion program is running at 10 locations in the eastern United States.
Nomad system is a commander hit in Iraq
As troops battled during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Army brigade commanders overseeing Stryker armored vehicles faced a problem.
Internaut: Take over WiFi spectrum to improve communications
Have you ever thought of WiFi signal interference as a contract issue rather than a technical problem?
Energy lab readies for Solaris 10
A global collaboration grid at an Energy Department laboratory will lean on hardware from Sun Microsystems Inc. and the company's new Solaris 10 operating system to allow data sharing across multiple levels of security and confidentiality.
The life & times of data
The Army Surface Deployment and Distribution Command faced an age-old problem: The amount of data it needed to keep was growing faster than the storage system designed to hold it.
By the numbers
The early history of federal computing is largely the story of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator.
Executive Suite: Preparing for post-election
New political ap-pointees will find themselves inundated with advice after any election.
DHS strikes gold
You know the Washington version of the Golden Rule: He who has the gold, rules.
Boutelle counting on launch of military comm satellites
Army CIO Lt. Gen. Steven Boutelle will be happy when the government starts launching its own satellites and becomes less dependent on commercial models.
DISA makes plans for joint command
DISA is deconstructing systems such as the Global Command and Control System in moving toward the Joint Command and Control system.
Army awards IT support contract for medical center
The Army has awarded a $19.3 million contract to ManTech International Corp. to provide engineering and technical services to Brooke Army Medical Center.
Feds are divided on administration's goals
Regardless of the outcome of last week's election'tallied after this page went to press'President Bush's Management Agenda will have a lasting impact on the way agencies conduct their business.
Defense about halfway through testing common core network services
DISA has tested four of nine core services for the Network-Centric Enterprise Services initiative and begun briefing commands about the results.
DOD pilots net-centric program for Afghanis
Defense is helping Afghanistan with a new pilot that tests a network-centric data strategy for the country's customs, transportation and security departments.
GPO moving beyond print and Web
Named 1996 inventor of the year by the Intellectual Property Owners Association, Michael L. Wash came to the Government Printing Office in June as the holder of 18 U.S. patents.
Defense IT management worries about the Y factor
DOD is struggling to attract 'the high-tech, under-30, Generation Y crowd,' acting CIO Linton Wells says.
California polling sites stay in touch via cellular communications
"There are 1,273 polling sites in Orange County, and each has a cell phone. We've been in communication with them all morning, making sure they have supplies and everything is going all right.'
Joint forces practice at fighting an urban war
All the military services took part in a war game during which they had to find adversaries in a futuristic, 2015 urban setting where virtual civilians were traveling to work and going to lunch.
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