Medical library, student aid sites score high in e-gov user satisfaction
A health library and the online application for federal college aid topped the latest quarterly survey of e-government customer satisfaction.<br>
Money not available to secure the nation's ports, GAO says
Funding problems are shortchanging security programs at the nation's maritime ports, the General Accounting Office has told lawmakers.
Army's superdigitized force leads Hussein capture
The Army team that captured Saddam Hussein was from its most digitized unit.<br>
Achieving e-filing target seems far off for the IRS
The IRS likely will miss its target of receiving 80 percent of individual taxpayers' returns electronically by 2007, a new report estimates.<br>
Online extra: 12 more issues facing government technology
GCN's Dec. 15 issue highlighted what the next year will hold for several major federal IT issues in its special report, Outlook 2004. Here are a dozen other issues that will affect government systems.
DHS gains chief security officer
Jack L. Johnson had been acting chief security officer.<br>
Younger departs as threat reduction chief
Stephen Younger, director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, has announced he will leave Feb. 27 to return to his previous job as a senior fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.<br>
Customs, PTO databases rank in world's top 10
U.S. government agencies run two of the world's 10 largest transactional databases, according to a survey released this week by database consultants.<br>
Forman advocates commodity grid computing
Agencies need to start looking at computing capacity as a commodity adaptable to meet changing needs, former e-government chief Mark Forman said yesterday.<br>
Personal space: Stirred, not shaken.'
Besides a ride like James Bond's, Steve O'Keeffe of O'Keeffe & Co. Inc. also owns a 1960 Ford Thunderbird, a 1960 MGA and a 1970 MGB. Why does the McLean, Va., IT public relations expert like old hardware? 'It looks, sounds and smells more real than today's faceless modes of transportation,' O'Keeffe said. 'It also shows that, if you maintain things, they can provide value for generations to come. P.S. They are a lot of fun to drive.'
Packet Rat: The Rat sees visions of sugarplums
Heavy snows in early December put a bit of a crimp in the Rat's holiday preparations. Instead of stringing more lights on the burrow roof and putting out lawn decorations, the whiskered one found himself shoveling all weekend.
'Did you hear...'
<b>On the campaign trail</b>. While the politicos stumble all over each other, <a href= "http://www.geekforpresident.com">www.geekforpresident.com</a> stays in one place to make his campaign promises: 'I will never bow to political pressure from lobbyists. I promise to screw up your life entirely on my own without any help from overpaid experts. I will never drive an M1-A1 Abrams tank or pilot a jet fighter.' The Geek cleverly posts his e-mail address as info (at) geekforpresident.com, to confuse spambots looking for the @ symbol.
Flurry of activity swirls all 'round the fed front
Business, pleasure and international flavor spiced up recent events on the federal IT calendar.
People on the Move
The Senate has confirmed <b>Robert McFarland</b> as the next assistant secretary for information and technology at the Veterans Affairs Department.
Air Force draws picture of space assets
The Air Force Space Command will jump-start an effort to consolidate its space assets into a desktop system called the Single Integrated Space Picture.<br>
DOD's top priority for 2004 is data networking
Joint military networking will make a breakthrough next year when the Defense Department unveils an integrated, scalable IT infrastructure for core enterprise services.
Agencies expect enterprise efforts to bear fruit in '04
Dick Burk likes to recount how the Housing and Urban Development Department has 217 systems built on every conceivable platform and running every conceivable type of software. And in the past year, HUD spent 33 percent of its $360 million IT budget maintaining those disparate systems.
Watch your step: Can major efforts avoid more slipups?
Will 2004 be the year that some of the government's largest and most crucial IT modernization projects turn the corner toward success?
IRS to pare down modernization projects
The IRS will decide by the end of December what business modernization projects to set aside so it can complete its new taxpayer database and other selected projects, the IRS CIO said.<br>
Tempest products get a second lease on life
After the Cold War, electromagnetically shielded Tempest computing and communications took a back seat to other security needs. Now, modern warfare has put Humvee wheels under new forms of Tempest equipment.
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