Online Extra: Algorithms are the engines of data mining
At the core of many data-mining tools are the algorithms, or sets of rules, that the apps use to winnow data and select useful information.
Online Extra: How to avoid getting skewed results
Data sets with missing or inaccurate information obviously can skew data mining results, but how badly?
Navy awards $3 billion deal for tactical satellite system
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command has awarded a $3.26 billion contract to Lockheed Martin to build a narrowband satellite system for battlefield communications.
Former IRS official leads new CSC federal practice
Joseph Kehoe, a former commissioner for the tax agency's Small Business and Self-Employed Division, takes over as chief of CSC's new federal consulting practice.
Soldier-finder software bound for Iraq
The Army will test a classified component of its Electronic Military Personnel Office system in Kuwait and Afghanistan next month and, if it works as expected, roll it out in January to all battalions in Iraq.<br>
OMB considering consortium model for grants administration
An Office of Management and Budget task force has recommended that agencies form consortiums to share their systems and eliminate duplicative spending.<br>
HHS panel promotes e-prescribing standards
The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics has recommended that the Health and Human Services Department recognize the e-prescribing transmission standard widely used by the pharmaceutical industry.<br>
Packet Rat: Rat sees spam bounty idea as a bust
The cyberrodent has been struggling to prop up the wall against spam that daily floods his agency's e-mail servers.
Virtual Space: Rain Gauge
van rained down death and destruction on the Gulf Coast this month, but it's raining straight up in these Sept. 15 images captured by NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite.
'Did you hear...'
<b>Dress for success</b>. Techies generally scorn the hot fashion trends set by top designers like Vera Wang or Manolo Blahnik.
USDA launches e-loan payment service for farmers
The Agriculture Department has launched an electronic service to let farmers and ranchers request and receive loan deficiency payments online.
People on the Move
David Drabkin, who recently said he was headed for the State Department, is going to stay put at the General Services Administration.
A happy fourth for FirstGov
The <a href="http://FirstGov.gov">FirstGov.gov</a> portal marked its fourth anniversary this month with a semiformal affair in the State Department's diplomatic reception room (tuxedoed waiters provided the formal part of the equation).
EPA tries out grid to put idle computers to work
The Environmental Protection Agency is looking at grid computing to get more mileage out of its supercomputers.
Civilian, military procurement staffs to march in step
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is considering setting standards for workforce competency for all civilian acquisition agencies.
Senator says 'major breakdown of stovepipes' is coming at DOD
Network-centric warfare programs will get about $25 billion of a $440 billion Defense Department authorization bill, Sen. John Warner predicted this month.
Agency budget officials must hurry up and wait
After waiting many months for Congress to pass temporary spending measures to keep the government running last fall, the Agriculture Department has rushed to spend $120 million on projects under its Common Computing Environment before fiscal 2004 ends this week.
Hurricane hunter
Flying straight into a hurricane is all in a day's work for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meteorologist A. Barry Damiano, who's seen the eyes of the worst Atlantic storms for 18 years now.
DHS begins integrating administrative systems
The Homeland Security Department last week began work on the first project of a new $229 million effort to weave together the disparate administrative and financial systems it acquired from the 22 agencies that merged to form DHS.
GAO still sees risks in Networx
The General Services Administration has made progress in addressing concerns over the $10 billion FTS Networx telecommunications contract, but it still needs to do more, according to the Government Accountability Office.
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