Digital shuttle goes 3-D
A knowledge management project at NASA Ames Research Center is using 3-D visual imaging techniques based on Web services.<br>
OPM plans new fake-degree seminars
The Office of Personnel Management plans to sponsor additional seminars next month in Washington to help federal personnel managers detect bogus degrees claimed by job applicants.<br>
New Navy group sets IT priorities
The recently commissioned Navy Installations Command will release a request for proposals for a server consolidation program in April.<br>
Revitalized DISN will extend GIG-BE's reach
The Defense Information Systems Agency next month will release a request for proposals for the DISN Access Transport Services contract.<br>
DOD on cusp of issuing wireless policy
New policy, which sets guidelines for using wireless devices, is expected to be more comprehensive than an earlier Pentagon policy.<br>
Online extra: Contractors assemble U.S. Visit teams
The U.S. Visit program as a whole has a fiscal 2004 budget of $364 million.<br>
U.S.-Mexican pact will strengthen border IT, DHS officials say
The Homeland Security Department and Mexican authorities have agreed on border safety and security measures that will expand the role of systems in processing travelers and goods between the U.S. and Mexico.<br>
NASA will test energized structures
Instead of loading bulky batteries on weight-sensitive satellites, NASA will try making structural pieces of satellites themselves hold the energy.<br>
Bush names McClellan CMS chief
Mark McClellan was selected to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services at the Health and Human Services Department.<br>
SmartBuy deal: volume discounts for guaranteed purchases
The first enterprise software agreement under the GSA SmartBuy program provides six agencies with deeper volume discounts and gives the vendor a guaranteed number of software licenses.<br>
NOAA: Rescues rising with satellite beacons
Satellite beacons have led rescuers to save the lives of 34 people in life-threatening situations this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.<br>
Personal space: Road warrior
On an 18-degree February morning, Stewart Carter heads for his job as an IT specialist at the National Emergency Management Response System, 14 miles from his White Oak, Md., home. 'I taught myself how to be a bike commuter in chaotic Washington traffic,' Carter said. 'It only takes about 55 minutes this way compared with 90 minutes on the subway and bus.'
Packet Rat: The Rat seeks shelter from the storm
The month's knockout round of Internet security threats bred a bunker mentality around the Rat's command cubicle. As most of his agency's users meandered through their workdays in blissful ignorance, the cyberrodent and his minions had been at their battle stations for weeks'and the work showed no sign of easing up.
'Did you hear...'
<b>When the mail fails</b>, try spam. Under the Can-Spam Act of 2003, the Federal Trade Commission wants to require all pornographic e-mail messages to bear the phrase 'Sexually-Explicit Content:' as the first characters of the subject line. But FTC didn't trust the Postal Service to deliver the public's written comments on the proposed rule by the Feb. 17 deadline, 120 days after enactment of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act. FTC's deadpan notice said no extensions or time for rebuttal will be granted. The public, it said, would have to send paper comments by courier or overnight service, not postal mail. Of course, porn spammers didn't have to bother with all that. They could just e-mail their views to <a href= "mailto:adultlabel@ftc.gov">adultlabel@ftc.gov</a>.
White House honors NSF FastLane system
The National Science Foundation's program to electronically collect and manage research and education data recently received kudos from the White House.
Five project teams net awards for .gov efforts
Five agency IT projects took home top prizes this month in the form of Excellence.Gov awards presented by Industry Advisory Council's eGov Shared Interest Group and the CIO Council at an E-Gov conference in Washington. The winners were chosen from among 25 finalists.
People on the Move
<b>John Osterholz</b>, the Defense Department's director of architectures and operability, will retire next month. Known for his initiatives to fuse information and for spearheading the Quantum Leap experiment last summer, Osterholz will go to work for BAE Systems North America of Rockville, Md.
IRS turns up pressure on main contractor
The IRS and Computer Sciences Corp. vow that they are making painstaking progress in righting the tax agency's massive Business Systems Modernization. But the IRS also has taken a new approach to holding its Prime contractor accountable for systems delivery failures by making good on its intention to look elsewhere for work on the project.
VA scampers to stay ahead of viruses
Veterans Affairs Department networks successfully dodged the latest generation of computer worms that began crawling the Internet last month.'You do it with a lot of hard work,' chief security officer Bruce Brody said. 'A year ago we got hit pretty hard by Code Red and Nimda. We were able to avoid any disruption from MyDoom.'
NMCI leaders point to progress ...
Despite negative reviews from some of its users, the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet project has had some successes.The network went unscathed by the MSBlaster virus attack last summer, while some other government systems were affected, because the service had updated its antivirus software to spot malicious code.
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