DOD to change way it buys services
Over the last 15 years, Defense Department spending on services has increased from 20 percent of DOD's procurement budget to 60 percent of it. The dramatic shift has prompted procurement officials to revisit how Defense buys services.
Defense overpays for satellite time, GAO says
<font color="CC0000"> (UPDATED) </font>The Defense Information Systems Agency's mandate to lease commercial satellite bandwidth for the military commands, though fair, is inflexible and wasteful, a General Accounting Office study said this week.
Forum sets a timeline for Internet's next generation
U.S. enterprises need to begin planning now for the switch to the newest version of the Internet Protocols so that they will be able to take advantage of IPv6 at the end of the decade, developers of the new protocols said.
Douglass: Civilian agencies stiffed on aerospace R&D
The Bush administration's proposed $19 billion for funding aerospace R&D 'is about right" for the Defense Department, but leaves civilian agencies in the cold, Aerospace Industries Association chief John W. Douglass said today.
2004: What's ahead for products
Innovations this year laid the groundwork for new technologies in 2004. Next year promises to be tumultuous, with all-out price wars in some sectors and the phase-out of formerly standard products.
For managers, the most important tool for accessibility can be understanding
It's not something I write about a lot, but I am disabled myself, which probably explains my decades-long interest in this field. If your hands or back don't hurt when you sit down to a computer, it's difficult to really understand the need for accessible hardware.
The lowdown on adaptive hardware
<b>What is it?</b> Adaptive hardware is anything that makes it easier for an impaired worker to use a computer. This may be a monitor arm, an adjustable-height work table, an armless chair that lets the user hold a keyboard in the lap, a touchpad to replace a mouse, or something as sophisticated as a mouse emulator that lets a quadriplegic worker operate a computer.
IG says Transportation IT security, management lag
IT investment management and computer security are among the top challenges facing the Transportation Department in 2004, the department's inspector general said in a report released today.<br>
User friendly
There are tens of millions of disabled workers and potential workers in the United States and tens of millions more who could benefit from being able to communicate or learn more easily using computers.
Data sharing's far from easy for many in the government
The National Guard's ability to share data for disaster planning and first response has been hampered by a stream of hacker intrusions on its unclassified networks over the past two years, its top information systems official says.
New Web system will merge disparate health information
The Defense Department is building a Web system that will collect and store health data to help explain mysterious illnesses such as Gulf War Syndrome.
Who knew dust could be so smart?
Tiny, wireless sensors and transmitters, dubbed smart dust, are moving out of research labs and onto battlefields and other locations where they can track assets, detect intruders and even sense dangerous chemicals.
Army orders up a rugged notebook
Rugged Unix notebook computers now figure in the Army's $2 billion, 10-year follow-on Common Hardware/Software III contract for tactical command, control and communications. Army officials said the rugged notebooks will run fire support applications, many written in open source code.
How to get the go-ahead
From the largest federal agency to the smallest municipality, making a smart case for IT investment has never been more important.
Internaut: DHS starts up $1.8m public cybersecurity campaign
The Homeland Security Department, with help from technology companies, has a publicity campaign under way to remind citizens to take their Internet security seriously.
Bloom named CFO at Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Thomas Bloom will start Monday as the senior deputy comptroller and chief financial officer at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.<br>
Feds look at the big computer picture
Federal R&D policy-makers are trying to revitalize big iron amid concerns that a Japanese supercomputer has held the title of world's fastest by a wide margin for a year and a half, despite U.S. domination of the top 500 systems.
Power User: Sometimes getting ahead means learning to make do
One year ago in this space, I wrote about the trouble I was having with an upgrade to Microsoft Windows XP Pro. I could no longer use a perfectly good Lexmark printer because it would take more trouble to make it compatible with XP Pro than simply buying a new Lexmark X5150 combo printer, fax and flat-bed scanner.
Man, Bytes, Dog
At Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, a pair of Palm OS applications can confirm guests arriving for a retirement luncheon as well as train bomb-sniffing dogs.
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