The rush is on for public safety RF spectrum
A national push to secure additional radio spectrum for public safety agencies kicked off today in Washington.
SPAWAR inks $195 million deal
The SPAWAR Systems Center has awarded a $195 million contract to Eagan, McAllister Associates Inc. for IT products and services.
Microsoft forms government research center in Northern Virginia
Microsoft Corp. is hosting a brand-new activity in Reston, Va.: the Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Government.
The lowdown on LCD monitors
b>What are they?</b> LCD monitors are based on active-matrix thin-film transistors placed in complex sandwiches of filters, electrodes, glass substrates and other materials.
Less is more
If your computing workload consists mainly of word processing, with a daily dose of Web surfing or e-mail checks, the 15- or 17-inch LCD monitor that comes bundled with many PCs might be all you'll ever need.
Army thinks big on knowledge management
The biggest challenge blocking the Army's goal of knowledge management is no longer creating effective IT applications. It's getting them to work together.
@Info.Policy: Want another view of government IT? See GIQ
From time to time, I review books on information policy in this space. Today I want to let you know of a scholarly journal covering information and telecommunications policy, information management, and e-government practices and policies at all levels.
Sea medicine
'We have an interplanetary Internet running now,' says Adrian J. Hooke, lead researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Editorial Cartoon
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Significa
A picture is worth a thousand words, but which ones?
House passes amendment to roll back A-76 rules
The House has passed an amendment to hold A-76 competitions under pre-May 2003 rules while a new set of rules are written.
Executive Suite: How to work a conference
Fall brings football, parties and a slate of professional conferences.
Elm trees and IT
In the 1930s, American elm trees lined many a city street.
Major programs within State Department
<b>State Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolset:</b> The department last December awarded a contract potentially worth up to $237 million over 10 years to a team led by Northrop Grumman Corp. to overhaul its system for transmitting official messages. The existing system handles about a million cables annually.
State wants its bureaus to get thin
Diplomats around the world will be logging on to State Department systems via thin clients rather than PCs, under a pilot to upgrade its networks at overseas posts and domestic offices.
Federal Contract Law: Ruling could make a contract's terms into a moving target
When the Supreme Court decided the Winstar case in 1996, some observers thought it marked the dawn of a new era in which the government would be treated like any other party to a contract. Maybe not.
Records management takes a few lessons from supercomputing
Storing and categorizing data has parallels elsewhere in government computing.
Points of order
Agencies struggling to manage their electronic records are getting some direction from the E-Government Electronic Records Management initiative.
NARA prepares for a new era in records management
The numbers are enormous'1 billion military personnel files and 600 million Census Bureau records, to name just two examples.
Nebraska city extends wired municipal network
Lincoln, Neb., is extending its optical-fiber backbone to remote buildings with a wide area wireless system.
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