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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has an active quantum computing program that encompasses work by federal and university scientists. Some of the NIST Quantum Information Program research, described at ubit.nist.gov, occurs at the agency's Time and Frequency Division in Boulder, Colo.
Letters to the Editor
I enjoyed reading the articles about your annual award recipients. One of the citations caught my attention: 'Cohen changed the course of federal IT.' I would like to provide information I believe is needed and was not included in the article on the Clinger-Cohen Act.
Restricted diet
Mathematicians and physicists have worked for decades to find unifying principles that govern the universe.
Expect 2003's hot topics to still be hot next year
It's been a year of hot management and procurement topics for the GCN Reader Survey.
E-gov brings CFOs, CIOs together
Mark Carney would never be identified as a techie. But that doesn't mean the deputy chief financial officer at the Education Department and chairman of the E-Government and Systems Committee for the CFO Council isn't IT-savvy.
Treasury kicks off new financial infrastructure protection effort
The Treasury Department is investing $2 million to upgrade a center whose aim is to alert and aid 99 percent of the nation's financial sector in the event of a cyberthreat.
PTO's director to step down next month
James E. Rogan, undersecretary of Commerce for intellectual property and director of the Patent and Trademark Office, today announced that he will leave Jan. 9.
Moonv6 testing to continue
The Defense Department and the University of New Hampshire plan a second phase of interoperability tests on the Moonv6 test bed, the nation's largest native IPv6 network.<br>
GAO: Agency architectures are still immature
Agency progress toward mature enterprise architectures is stagnant, according to a soon-to-be released General Accounting Office report.<br>
AWIPS proceeds with workstation upgrades
About half of the 137 sites in the National Weather Service's severe-storm prediction system now have new workstations that run Linux.<br>
Move to IPv6 will scrap COE
The Defense Department has given the military services more flexibility in systems design and it is scrapping requirements relating to the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system.
Juniper Networks' unit will take on Cisco for federal customers
Juniper Networks Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has announced formation of a federal systems unit to challenge Cisco Systems Inc. in the government market.<br>
House Reform review of bundling language stalls SBA reauthorization
Concerns about contract bundling language delay passage of the fiscal 2004 Small Business Administration reauthorization bill.
Across the board changes for longtime federal procurement consultant
In the wake of a purchase by Washington Management Group, Federal Sources experiences an exodus of top managers.
NARA begins search for archives system vendor
The National Archives and Records Administration has released the final solicitation for its Electronic Records Archive project.
DARPA sets unmanned aerial vehicle agenda
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to develop at least seven UAV technologies for a broad range of uses.
DHS moves into the FAST lane along Mexican border
Homeland Security is expanding its trusted-vehicle program to Mexican ports, using wireless radio frequency IDs to identify and speed border crossing for preregistered trucks and drivers.
NASA to guard contractor information
Saying it no longer has enough employees to safeguard contractors' confidential information, NASA today proposed changes to safeguard the proprietary data when it must be disclosed to non-NASA support workers.<br>
Intelligence networks go for Google
The Intelink Management Office, which oversees top-secret, secret and sensitive but unclassified intranets for the CIA and other intelligence organizations, has adopted the Google Search Appliance.<br>
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