NSA recruits new team, including techies
The National Security Agency is looking for new employees to meet its changing intelligence needs.<br>
CIA pumps capital into linguistics software
In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm, has invested in Basis Technology Corp., which sells multilingual linguistic analysis, text mining and information retrieval software.<br>
SAS 9 goes modular
With the latest update of its flagship statistical software, SAS Institute Inc. is stressing a building-block nature to fit more easily into agency enterprise architectures.<br>
DLA to consolidate IT operations
The Defense Logistics Agency is seeking quotations for a plan to turn over its disparate servers and databases to a vendor. The closing date is April 16.<br>
Bush nominates O'Carroll for SSA inspector general
President Bush yesterday nominated Patrick O'Carroll Jr. the inspector general of the Social Security Administration.<br>
DISA issues RFP for White House comm pact
The Defense Information Systems Agency this week issued a request for proposals for telecommunications services to support the White House Travel Office.
E-file nears 50 million returns as April 15 deadline approaches
Heading into the last weekend before the April 15 deadline, taxpayers submitting their returns to the IRS electronically remain on pace to break last year's record of 53 million e-filings.
Veritas launches document storage management software
Veritas Software Corp. of Mountain View, Calif., has released software that will help agencies automatically file and dispose of electronic documents.
Company offers testing of Exhibit 300 documents
Agencies nervous about submitting their fiscal 2006 Exhibit 300 documents to the Office of Management and Budget in September can get an advance reading from Metier Ltd. of Washington, starting at $75,000.
Groups raise privacy concerns over plans for RFID
The Defense Department is trying to ensure that the radio-frequency ID technology that suppliers must begin using on large shipments next year will be interoperable with systems used in the private sector'and that has raised some concerns among privacy advocates.
CADE advances to operational testing
The IRS and Computer Sciences Corp. next week will start six weeks of operational testing of the new taxpayer database at the IRS Martinsburg, W.Va., facility, a CSC official said today.
Air Force puts out request for $10b networking program
After several months of delays, the Air Force has released a request for proposals for its $10 billion Network Centric Solutions program.
Defense pushes for a single RFID standard
The Defense Department is coordinating its rollout of radio-frequency ID tags with other federal organizations in hope of arriving at a single set of standards.
Defense receives pair of bids for joint radio design phase
Competition is heating up for the next phase of the Defense Department's Joint Tactical Radio System: Teams led by Lockheed Martin and Boeing have submitted proposals to design JTRS Air Force and Navy radios.
North Carolina State University unveils new networking protocol
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new protocol to speed data transfers.
SGI tinkers with hybrid computer architecture
Seeking the best of both chip design worlds, SGI is working on high-performance computers that combine vector- and scalar-processing components.
DHS, State want to extend biometric passport deadline
The Bush administration is asking Congress to extend an October deadline for economically developed countries to provide biometric passports to citizens travelling to the United States.
DOD to bring down the procurement hammer
The Defense Department's director of procurement promises to be more 'heavy handed' when it comes to agency regulatory issues.<br>
Sixty percent of tax returns have been e-filed
Electronic filing of income tax returns remains at record levels.<br>
EPA readying data exchange network
The Environmental Protection Agency is pushing Web services to its limit and by Dec. 31 should have the biggest operational network using this technology.<br>
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