Library of Congress chooses four universities for digital preservation research
Under the Library of Congress' $100 million National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, four universities will develop a set of strategies and best practices.
National Guard couple weds via Internet
Shadow Evans and Richard Everton, both sergeants in the Massachusetts National Guard, were married earlier this month by videoconference.
Program at nation's major ports tests ways to secure containers
While Seattle sleeps, port officials in Puget Sound are on their second cup of double-jolt espresso, working to keep cargo safe in the nation's third-largest center for containerized imports and exports.
DFAS buys Unisys' managed services
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service has awarded Unisys Corp. an $83.5 million contract for a wide range of managed desktop services.
EA, Act 2
Many agencies that implement an enterprise architecture don't see the benefits of it for many years. But the Homeland Security Department doesn't have the luxury of waiting.
Two e-gov initiatives change project managers
A pair of Quicksilver e-government projects reaching critical points of their development will have new managers.
After 9/11, import data project became more urgent
The Automated Commercial Environment, the oldest ongoing systems project in the Border and Transportation Security Directorate, began life in the Treasury Department in the mid-1990s.
Defense seeks input from civilian workers at HR site
The Defense Department has launched a Web site to inform civilian employees and solicit their comments about the new National Security Personnel System.
Senate passes provision for employees' A-76 protest rights
The Senate last night moved closer to giving federal employees the right to protest public-private competitions to the General Accounting Office.
ArcGIS goes to the Web
ESRI has introduced a server-based version of its flagship ArcGIS geographic information system software, until now a desktop application.<br>
Showdown looms on U.S. Visit pact
The House Rules Committee today likely will make a key procedural decision on the fiscal 2005 Homeland Security Department appropriations bill that could determine the fate of Accenture Ltd.'s multibillion-dollar U.S. Visit contract.<br>
Cooper, Congress look to reshape chain of command
Congressional Democrats recently branded the Homeland Security Department's IT management as less than effective and blamed it on 'an organizationally weak DHS CIO's office.'
Mission gap: A special report on the Homeland Security Department
Two years after coming into being, the Homeland Security Department is still under construction, a loose collection of agencies not bound by a common infrastructure. GCN focuses this report on the gaps in Homeland's bridge to domestic security, and its successes to date as well.
HHS seeks bids to create health care IT resource center
The Health and Human Services Department's research arm released a request for proposals to establish a health care IT resource center.
DISA issues call for overseas wireless support
The Defense Information Systems Agency has released a request for proposals for enterprise wireless services for Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia.
Even good services can impose a light-fingered touch on your budget
Buying technology and products these days can be a bit like the old trick where a magician asks someone in the audience for a $20 bill, then makes it disappear. Nice trick, but the $20 doesn't seem to reappear.
Federal Contract Law: U.S. agencies might feel at home with Iraq's old procurement rules
Part of the process of bringing Iraq back into the world community is to revamp its laws, including those governing procurement.
Capitol is now a hotspot in more ways than one
On the steps of the Supreme Court, officials of the Open Park Project of Washington and Tropos Networks Inc. of San Mateo, Calif., in March turned on the first pair of a half-dozen IEEE 802.11b WiFi cells and invited the public to surf.
DOD sings satellite bandwidth blues
Military satellite strategists have complained about a lack of bandwidth. But one has qualified that to mean user-perceived throughput.
Radio waves figure to change the shape of IT
RFID will be the most disruptive new development, leading technologists said at a Senate conference earlier this year on emerging technologies.
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