Packet Rat: Rat scurries to survive patch madness
The Rat has started to plan his workweek like a five-day package tour of systems hell. He's leaving plenty of room on the old handheld calendar for side trips to Spamville Web Services Limbo. At least one thing however, now must be marked as a permanent, recurring event.
EA expert Spewak dies
Steven H. Spewak, an author, consultant and lecturer on enterprise architectures who was very familiar in government IT circles, died recently in Alexandria, Va. He was 53.
Feds read between the lines of KM
Knowledge management and its growing place in the government landscape was the focus of a three-day conference this month in Washington, held by the E-Gov Institute.
People on the Move
Charles Havekost, until recently the program manager for the Grants.gov Quicksilver project, is the Health and Human Services Department's new CIO and deputy assistant secretary for IRM.
Education points microscope at its legal documents
The Education Department selects ISYS Search Software to streamline retrieval of legal information in its Office of the General Counsel.
GSA seeks vendor input for next set of e-gov projects
The Bush administration by September wants to finalize business cases for projects to consolidate systems in three areas: financial, human resources and grants management.
Interagency radio pilot hits airwaves in Seattle
The departments of Homeland Security, Justice and Treasury are testing a wireless network to serve federal law enforcement agencies nationwide.
Iraq war shows 'the need for speed' in software deployment
SALT LAKE CITY'Facing an enemy in Iraq that seems to morph daily, military IT leaders say they need speedier deployment of new systems. And they need funding flexibility to get it done.
At last, Defense issues wireless rules
All Defense Department personnel, contractors and even visitors entering Defense facilities must encrypt unclassified information transmitted wirelessly, under DOD's new and long-awaited wireless policy.
GSA offers few details on Networx, its successor to FTS 2001
The General Services Administration so far is revealing few details about strategic changes it may or may not make to a $10 billion governmentwide telecommunications and network services buy.
FAA slows down display system deployment
The Federal Aviation Administration over the next three years will implement its new air traffic control displays at 50 airports with seriously outdated systems.
Lack of funding grounds IT upgrades at TSA
Short on cash, the Transportation Security Administration is stuck in a holding pattern on its IT infrastructure.The agency recently halted work on the upgrade because it does not have enough money to finish the current phase at 600 locations.
Tibbits will head DOD financial revamp
The Defense Department has appointed Dr. Paul A. Tibbits as director of one of the department's largest modernization programs.
Army warns soldiers about pesky diploma mills
The Army is advising soldiers to avoid diploma mills in seeking education options.A recent release by the Army News Service said the Army will not recognize degrees from unaccredited schools.
Hill sets plans for confronting diploma mill problem
A new wave of scrutiny into government employees' use of academic credentials from unaccredited institutions will begin within weeks.
Project Safecom going nowhere fast, GAO says
A government initiative to improve communications among first responders at the federal, state and local levels 'has made very limited progress,' the General Accounting Office contends.
DISA adds fiber vendors to the GIG-BE program
The Defense Information Systems Agency has added three vendors to the fiber-optic portion of the $900 million Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion program.
Study reveals more contract ills at GSA
The ongoing saga of contracting troubles at the Federal Technology Service took another turn for the worse when a new evaluation found 84 percent of contracts in the National Capital Region were inadequately drawn up or seriously inadequate.
Basic is better, new IT security report says
A coalition of public- and private-sector organizations earlier this month called on hardware and software vendors to pay more attention to basic security.
Agencies get more time to list their software
The General Services Administration has extended to May 1 the deadline for agencies to submit inventories of the software they use. GSA will use the inventories to fine-tune its plans for the SmartBuy governmentwide software licensing program.
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