Congress plans report cards on cybersecurity
On the heels of Office of Management and Budget efforts over the past year to boost cybersecurity, lawmakers are set to weigh in on agency progress. <br>
The lowdown on E-forms
<b>What are they?</b> E-forms are electronic versions of paper forms that can be created, designed, filled in and managed completely online.
Nanotechnology R&D bills move through Congress
The House and Senate have worked out differences in bills to fund and oversee research and development in the potentially controversial field of nanotechnology.<br>
Incoming
Skyward systems. The Defense Department plans to launch an experimental tactical satellite early next year to support battlefield information needs.
DOD overpays for satellite access
The Defense Department accounts for more than half of the $500 million yearly revenue earned by commercial satellite services, but it pays a premium because its needs surge unexpectedly.
Military fights C4I digital divide
More than 170,000 U.S. and allied troops fought in Operation Iraqi Freedom'many without adequate command, control, communications, computer and intelligence systems. Ground troops often had a blurry battlefield picture, although commanders had 'unparalleled control of battle formations,' said Lt. Gen. William S. Wallace, commanding general of Army forces during the combat phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Corps of Engineers gets backup help from remote control apps
In the Army Corps of Engineers' largest land district, fixing a broken computer used to mean flying an IT staff member out to the affected field office.
E-blueprints
A National Institutes of Health office has bought records management software so that architects and agency officials can trade their blueprint comments on a Web drawing board.
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VA program will do the buying for you
Agencies soon will be able to hire IT acquisition services through a new franchise program at Veterans Affairs' Austin Automation Center in Austin, Texas.<br>
Undelete utility goes enterprisewide
Undelete utilities, common at the client level, are moving to the server level to protect enterprises from accidentally deleted files. <br>
Significa
The Food and Drug Administration has been figuring out how to fight terrorism with raspberry syrup. Why? The federal government has stockpiled potassium iodide (KI) to counteract the poisonous effects of radioactive iodine released in a nuclear incident.
Another View: Time to retire the word 'e-gov'
The concepts that the term 'e-government' represents are as strong as ever, but the word itself has outlived its usefulness.
Cronyism?
The arcane world of federal contracting has been thrust anew into the spotlight.
Software is vulnerable, just like us
Last year, Tom Richey joined Microsoft Corp.'s public-sector strategy team for homeland security. The match seemed fitting.
Mission takes priority over process, TSA official says
'We can't say, a certain number of planes were destroyed because we couldn't do a system development lifecycle model'that's not acceptable,' TSA chief IT officer Chris Allen says.
DOD computing centers get management app
Defense's High-Performance Computing Modernization Program is buying software that will help manage the processing load at the program's largest computing centers.
VA will offer IT acquisition services
An enterprise center within the Veterans Affairs Department is starting a franchise program to provide IT acquisition services to other agencies.<br>
OMB seeks consensus on enterprise architecture terms
The Office of Management and Budget is finding that agencies aren't using the same terms to describe elements of their enterprise architectures.<br>
Sony displays cameras of unparalleled quality
The Sony Cyber-shot F-series DSC-F828 digital camera, on display at Comdex this week, is the first camera to use Sony Electronic Inc.'s new four-color filter and Real Imaging Processor technology.
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