Inside job
Useful as information technology is, it can be ugly, and not only in the abstract sense. PCs, monitors, printers'from a design standpoint, 99 percent of them are banal at best and downright ugly at worst, especially when combined with unsightly wiring and cabling.
Treasury moving to disrupt terrorist financing
Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence plans to integrate the department's information and intelligence streams.
Defense logistics unit awards tech support contract
Contract covers IT support and administrative services to the Defense Logistics Agency's Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service.
Rozek returns to White House for counterterrorism role
Joseph Rozek has left the private sector and returned to the White House as a special assistant to the president and senior director for domestic counterterrorism.
OMB appoints Young e-gov associate administrator
Tim Young is the new associate administrator for e-government and IT.
OMB clears up criteria to get to green
The Office of Management and Budget today gave agencies a clearer understanding of the criteria to meet green on the President's Management Agenda scorecard.
Army awards training and simulation contract
The Army has chosen Northrop Grumman Corp. for a 10 year, $408 million contract to provide battle command training support to Army corps, division and brigade commanders.
Former DISA contractor indicted
Prosecutors claim former contractor awarded $11 million in government contracts to a small business where he had secret financial dealings.
Packet Rat: General George and Elvis, move over
The Rat has always hoped to achieve some small fame, some well-deserved recognition for his long and illustrious government service.
Personal space: High bar
Education Department chief financial officer Jack Martin says it's professionally stimulating to divide his time between CFO duties and a second federal job as acting head of the Selective Service System. 'The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 set a high bar for accountability,' he says.
Tipton offers Interior look
W. Hord Tipton, CIO of the Interior Department, spoke last week at a breakfast sponsored by Input of Reston, Va., to discuss his department's IT work.
Meet the Networx
The General Services Administration held a conference this month to inform vendors about the Federal Technology Service Networx contract.The $10 billion governmentwide telecommunications and network services program will replace the government's current FTS 2001 contract for telecom services that expires in 2006.
People on the Move
The Navy has named <b>Rear Adm. James B. Godwin III</b> as the new director of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program office.Godwin, program executive officer for the Navy's Tactical Aircraft Programs, officially will replace <b>Rear Adm. Charles L. Munns</b> as director in September.
Shuttle disaster spurs NASA to buy overdue computing power
The space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 pointed up NASA's fallback in high-performance computing.
Hill, Homeland Security trade barbs over border control tech
The Homeland Security Department's enterprise architecture and its plans for a border control system came under fire from legislative overseers last week.
OMB marketing blitz to get the word out on e-gov
The Office of Management and Budget is trying to boost citizens' awareness of federal e-government services.
GSA is close to hooking a major SmartBuy deal
The General Services Administration, working under its SmartBuy enterprise licensing program, is closer than ever to catching one of the big fish in the software vendor pond.
GSA fears loss of its biggest customer: Defense
The military would face limitations on how it buys goods and services from General Services Administration contracts under two provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2005.
In-house team wins NASA's 'Software of the Year'
NASA has formally recognized a development team at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., for an in-house, money-saving aerodynamic analysis application.
DHS' registered travelers project takes test flight
The Homeland Security Department has launched its Registered Traveler Pilot Program at four airports and plans to unveil it today at the last of five sites, Reagan National Airport in Virginia.
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