Lawmakers take aim at E-Gov Fund and the rules for A-76 competitions
In an appropriations bill approved this month, lawmakers took on the White House by cutting funds for Quicksilver e-government projects and altering competitive-sourcing rules.
Senate clears McFarland for top IT post at VA
Former Dell vice president Robert McFarland will replace John Gauss, who resigned the Veterans Affairs CIO post earlier this year.
Pentagon IT outsourcing set for award
The Air Force Pentagon Communications Agency is expected to award its $600 million IT products and services contract today.<br>
Will omnibus spending bill be done Monday?
Lawmakers are working on a continuing resolution to keep the government open until Monday and might extend it until Dec. 5 if they cannot agree on an omnibus spending bill in the next two days.<br>
CIOs: Funding is toughest challenge
In the annual Top 10 Federal CIO Challenges Survey, funding ranked first, followed by hiring and keeping technology workers.<br>
DHS gains two intelligence officials
Patrick M. Hughes has been named assistant secretary for information analysis in the Homeland Security Department's Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate. James F. Sloan has been appointed the Coast Guard's assistant commandant for intelligence.<br>
Comdex: Motorola phones span world
The tri-band Motorola V300 wireless phone comes with a bright color screen capable of displaying up to 65,000 colors, plus an integrated VGA-quality camera and Multimedia Message Service capability.
Avocent cuts the KVM cord
Avocent Corp.'s $250 LongView keyboard-video-mouse switch can wirelessly connect to and control computers up to 100 feet away.<br>
Education hires ACS for loan services
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. has won a contract that could be worth more than $2 billion over 10 years to process Education Department student loans.<br>
Federal agencies rescue camper via satellite beacon
The 406-MHz satellite personal locator beacon helped save a camper lost in the Adirondacks.<br>
Homeland's ICE gains CIO, seeks name change
Gary Hartwig, a career Customs Service official, has become interim CIO of the Homeland Security Department's Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm.<br>
Army commissions flexible displays
The Army has signed a deal with Universal Display Corp. to accelerate development of small, flexible color LED displays.<br>
Congress approves nanotechnology R&D bill
The House and Senate have passed a bill to fund and oversee research and development in the potentially controversial field of nanotechnology.<br>
OMB updating architecture reference models for '06 budget process
Agencies should expect to have updated versions of four of the five Federal Enterprise Architecture reference models before the fiscal 2006 budget process begins in February.<br>
Council seeks opinions on the future of supercomputing
The National Research Council is soliciting advice on the best ways the federal government can meet its supercomputing needs in the future.<br>
Foul-up leads DHS to delay network
An administrative misunderstanding led to the release of a request for proposals for the Homeland Secure Digital Network before the project received final approval, Homeland Security CIO Steve Cooper says.
Project Leopard will hit the spot for Linux users
An open-source framework for Web services on Linux platforms is under construction at <a href= "http://leopard.sourceforge.net">leopard.sourceforge.net</a>.
Some agency R&D funds up, others are flat
Despite historic gains in defense and biomedical research, other federal R&D has stagnated for a decade, said panelists at this month's Defense Research and Engineering Exposition in Washington.
Pa. reporting system tracks hepatitis A
A public health reporting system was good medicine for Pennsylvania health officials battling an outbreak of hepatitis A that, at press time, had killed three people and sickened more than 500.
Dell has free tools for server management
New server management tools from Dell Inc. consolidate administrative functions with applications from Microsoft Corp. and third-party vendors.
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