Education expands use of business intelligence software
The Education Department buys software licenses and maintenance services for a business intelligence platform for the Office of Federal Student Aid's Common Services for Borrowers contract.
Bush to recess appoint Barth as HUD CFO
President Bush intends to appoint during the congressional recess Carin Barth of Texas as chief financial officer of the Housing and Urban Development Department.
GAO issues financial management system checklist
Checklist designed to help agencies meet federal financial system requirements.
DHS Spirit procurement fades away
The Homeland Security Department has cancelled the $5 billion Security, Planning and Integrated Resources for Information Technology program for a broad range of IT services.
DOD needs to sharpen acquisition skills, GAO says
The Defense Department still has a shortage of best practices and controls in business systems acquisition, the Government Accountability Office said today.
DHS Spirit procurement fades away
The Homeland Security Department has cancelled the $5 billion Security, Planning and Integrated Resources for Information Technology program.
OPM, CIO Council to link IT training programs
The Office of Personnel Management and the CIO Council today recommended using five IT workforce training programs for a governmentwide curriculum.
DHS cans Spirit contract
The Homeland Security Department cancelled the five-year $5 billion Security Planning and Integrated Resources for Information Technology procurement.
Packet Rat: Dr. StrangeGoogle or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog
The Rat slid quietly through the shadows at the National Healthcare Information Infrastructure conference, looking for a former colleague who had been drawn to the dark side of HMO tech support.
'Did you hear...'
<b>Lefty alert</b>. The 10 percent of all users who are left-handed can now type exclusively with their left while mousing with their right. The $150 Lefty FrogPad from FrogPad Inc. of Houston crams all the standard keys onto a 5.5- by 3.5-inch rectangle centered on the 15 most-used English letters. A Bluetooth version is coming. 8Office arsenal. The General Services Administration's security machine catalog from SEM of Westborough, Mass., sells not only big, centralized shredders and disintegrators but also the Model 4033 Ultimate Destruction System, which can chew up whole computer towers into 2-inch-wide random lengths.
Personal space: Beachbound
John and Kay Ely, both former GSA Trail Bosses of the Year, load up a moving truck with new furniture for their rental houses on North Carolina's Outer Banks. The beach houses will fund their retirement, and Kay credits the skills they learned as government acquisition pros. 'It's the only way I can get John to go shopping,' she adds.
Accessible technology from Commerce
The Commerce Department's Assistive Technology Exhibit and Policy Forum last month showcased ways to make information systems more accessible to handicapped users.
People on the Move
<b>Tina Westby Jonas</b> recently won confirmation as the Defense Department's new comptroller, after her nomination had lagged in the Senate for four months.
Air Force builds $490m comm infrastructure
The Air Force has hired several companies under a $490 million contract to build a communications infrastructure for deployed personnel.
HUD to collect homeless data nationwide
The Housing and Urban Development Department is finalizing the data and technical standards for a national Homeless Management Information System.
HHS offers funds to boost use of IT
The Health and Human Services Department will provide financial incentives to push the health care industry toward greater use of IT.
XML standards battle is brewing over Navy's data-sharing plans
Proposed Navy rules for Extensible Markup Language use are forcing other agencies to take a stand on how they share and reuse data.The Navy plans to adopt international interoperability standards that would eliminate document type definitions, or DTDs, which many agencies now use for sharing documents. Newer XML schemas are more suited to individual data elements.
Colorado city switches protocols to keep vehicles on track
When AT&T Wireless Services Inc. dropped its Cellular Digital Packet Data service, the city of Aurora, Colo., faced a tough choice.Aurora's public works division, which relies on a wireless automated vehicle locator for its fleet of about four dozen vehicles, had to switch to another provider, build its own infrastructure or convert to AT&T's new General Packet Radio Service.
Slice of the spectrum
The District of Columbia is ready to launch a 10-site, citywide broadband mobile network that will give first responders high-speed access to video and data.
System problem shortchanges Canadian checks
A computer system used by a Canadian government agency cannot calculate a rate increase for people on disability and social support programs, and fixing it will take years and cost millions of dollars.
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