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<b>Personal IP routers</b>. They're nearing commercial readiness for warfighters, according to Cisco Systems Inc. sources. The compact wireless transceivers will turn a soldier's backpack into a network node, and a soldier's boot will take on a whole new meaning. To preview size and price, take a look at Cisco's Linksys products.
Emory Miller says goodbye
Emory Miller said goodbye to 37 years of government service last month with a bash in Alexandria, Va., that saluted his professional and personal sides.
New places on Chenok's plate
The Office of Management and Budget's Dan Chenok recently marked the end of his federal career at an event in Washington that included good wishes and a significant award.
AF research aids Mars rovers' historic flight
Radiation-resistant computers developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory helped steer NASA's Spirit Mars Exploration Rover to a safe landing.<br>
People on the Move
<b>Mike Fitzgerald</b>, a 14-year veteran of federal service and most recently the Office of Personnel Management's E-Training project manager, has left for an industry job.
IRS, CSC act to right the agency's IT overhaul
The IRS and Prime contractor Computer Sciences Corp. are racing to demonstrate that they can put the agency's system moernization back on track.
Seven perspectives on where IT is or isn't heading this year
Will the government's use of Extensible Markup Language skyrocket this year? What new IT mandates are coming from Congress? Are radio-frequency identification tags all they're cracked up to be? How healthy are e-government projects?
Contracting out of control at FTS regional offices, IG says
<font color="CC0000">UPDATED </font color>The General Services Administration's inspector general today said the Federal Technology Service's client support centers in three regions have breached federal procurement laws over the last two years.<br>
GSA readies pilot to test new E-Authentication approach
The General Services Administration's E-Authentication project team will test a new decentralized approach in pilots slated to begin this month and last through March.
DISA will be own integrator on GIG-BE project
The Defense Information Systems Agency is bucking a trend toward outsourcing on its Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion project.The agency will serve as its own systems integrator in overseeing work under new hardware and software contracts to build a communications infrastructure to serve users throughout the Defense Department.
U.S. Visit lands at air, sea ports
Bleary-eyed travelers on British Airways flight 217 from London's Heathrow airport to Dulles International Airport on Jan. 5 faced a new wrinkle in their immigration processing: fingerprint scans and digital photography on the first operational day of the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indication System.
Ridge promises to merge watch lists this year
The government will combine about a dozen terrorist watch lists into one this year, vows Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge.
Lee returns to Pentagon
Deidre Lee, the Defense Department's procurement director, will soon be back in her old job, three months after she temporarily left to oversee reconstruction procurements in Iraq.<br>
IRS holds back future CADE, accounting system releases
The IRS is delaying future releases of its new taxpayer database, the Customer Account Data Engine, in order to get the initial version out successfully, presumably this year.<br>
Net-centric warfare gets lucky
The Army Recreation Machine Program is deploying a virtual private network and remote monitoring software to oversee gaming and cash machines at recreational centers in Europe and Asia.<br>
JPL code eases rover's Mars landing
The first of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers successfully landed this month using software that wasn't completed until well into the flight.
GSA: WorldCom can compete for new comm deals
WorldCom Inc. has agreed to three years of federal oversight in exchange for General Services Administration permission to compete for new government business.
Defense wants ID tags on all supplies now
Defense Department contractors must now mark items delivered to DOD with unique identifiers such as bar codes or radio-frequency identification tags. Contractors must also specify the unit cost of all hardware items delivered under a contract.
GAO: Tracking of acquisition data needs work
The Office of Management and Budget must do more to ensure the reliability of federal procurement data, including reviewing agency procedures for collecting and reporting information to the Federal Procurement Data System, the General Accounting Office contends.
OMB wants to see long-range A-76 planning
The Office of Management and Budget is asking agencies to prepare long-range plans for conducting public-private competitions of federal jobs.
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