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<b>Going nowhere faster?</b> A GCN reader took issue with a June 7 article about the military's need for more bandwidth now that the world's fastest router can sling around 92 Tbps. 'We never had hourglasses spinning [on screen] until the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet,' the reader griped. 'Now we get them when we delete Outlook files, move files to another folder or open a folder. Forget accessing outside data. With NMCI, the Navy and the Marine Corps have no need for faster data transfer. They cannot use what they have now.'
Leadership AFFIRMed
Outstanding leadership was the focus of an awards lunch held by the Association for Federal IRM this month at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel in Washington. The organization recognized exemplary leadership in federal IT programs.
People on the Move
The Transportation Security Administration has chosen Justice Department systems executive <b>David Zeppieri</b> to be its CIO.He will begin working at TSA in mid-July.
OPM puts IT purchasing under CIO
Janet Barnes has power few agency CIOs have but most want. The Office of Personnel Management's top IT official gets final approval over all technology procurement plans and strategies.
HHS will move to e-Travel services over next two years
The Health and Human Services Department has awarded a task order to Northrop Grumman Mission Systems to implement its Web-based e-Travel management services across the department. The contract is valued at $945,000, plus transaction fees.
Telecom sees IP as its savior
CHICAGO'Networks don't care what moves over their cables and wires, and packets don't care how they get from one point to another. That means telephone companies can no longer focus on being phone companies if they want to recover economically, telecom executives said last week at the SuperComm trade show here.
Glitches stall Coast Guard radio upgrade
The Coast Guard's $611 million project to overhaul its coastal radio system for search and rescue has fallen months behind schedule because of delays in integrating control system software.
Testing center delayed
One measure aimed at improving NMCI's operation has been pushed back. The Navy said it would be unable to open its Product Evaluation Center at the Space and Naval Warfare IT Center in New Orleans until at least the fall. Earlier this year, the service said it intended to open the center this month.
NMCI officials press for big changes
NEW ORLEANS'The Navy's embattled intranet project is undergoing significant changes aimed at improving its management and operation. Despite sharp criticism of the multibillion-dollar program'some from its own ranks'service brass remain committed to it.
DHS goes on the air with NOAA
The Homeland Security Department and the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have signed an agreement under which DHS will send all-hazards alerts directly through NOAA's radio network.
Records will get their own layer in FEA
Reynolds Cahoon, National Archives and Records Administration CIO, said the Office of Management and Budget has agreed to add records management as a separate layer in the next version of the Federal Enterprise Architecture.
DARPA funding urban warfare tech
DARPA wants ideas in 11 technology areas to assist urban operations.
Agencies get guidance for services buys
The Civilian and Defense acquisition councils have finalized the way agencies should buy services from schedule contracts.Previously, agencies used a part of the Federal Acquisition Regulations for weapons systems and services, said David Drabkin, GSA's deputy associate administrator for acquisition policy, at a recent conference.
OMB initiates funding model for Grants.gov
<a href= "http://Grants.gov">Grants.gov</a> will become the first Quicksilver project to move from a development to a fee-for-service model in support of the operation and maintenance phase of the initiative, the Office of Management and Budget announced this month.
NARA needs volunteers to test e-records
The National Archives and Records Administration is looking for agency records managers to test prototypes of the Electronic Records Archive system.
DOD wants standardized platform for weapons use
The Defense Department's transformation initiative has 'built up a bow wave of change,' Air Force Maj. Gen. Marc 'Buck' Rogers said at last week's Joint Warfare 2004 conference in Arlington, Va.
Architectures guide logistics overhaul
Military forces in Iraq are using 21st century systems for fighting, but have often found themselves operating in a mid-20th-century logistics structure.
Report on Defense IT: Pentagon simplifies its supply lines
The military runs more than 3,000 supply chain systems, a number that dwarfs even the Defense Department's financial systems tally by several hundred. What's more: 'Every time we turn over a rock we find more systems," says <b>Gary Jones</b> of the Logistics Systems Management Office.
House plans e-gov cuts
Congressional support for e-government initiatives has been shaky from the start, but a recent move sharply undercuts a handful of the projects, even as they near completion.
Navy HR system cleared for launch
System replaces four legacy personnel and pay systems, allowing online updates for personal data.
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