Accessibility benefits every user
Ergonomic and accessibility technologies serve all users regardless of their needs, speakers said yesterday at the Interagency Disability Educational Awareness Showcase 2003 in Washington.<br>
Snafu prompted HSDN delay
An administrative misunderstanding led to the release of a request for proposals for the Homeland Secure Digital Network before the project had final approval, Homeland Security CIO Steve Cooper said yesterday.<br>
Packet Rat: Rat won't tolerate any bull from Redmond
'This is the biggest gathering of vaporware developers since ... well, the last Microsoft Developers Conference,' the Rat sighed as he slid through the crowd at Microsoft Corp.'s recent coder shindig.
Personal space: Clowning Around
'I collect clowns for two reasons,' Lloyd K. Mosemann II says. 'When I worked at the Pentagon, clowns reminded me that 'things are not always what they appear to be.' Now that I am on the contractor side of the table, I find that equally true.' A senior vice president at Science Applications International Corp., he retired in 1996 as deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force.
CIO shift at DOD; multiple personnel changes at OMB
Last week the Bush administration announced major personnel changes at the Defense Department and the Office of Management and Budget.
OMB tests g-to-g portal for payments
The Office of Management and Budget has begun testing a portal for interagency transactions. By July, OMB expects 24 agencies will be using the portal to process rent and reimbursable IT services payments.
Sales booming, GSA regroups
The General Services Administration is reorganizing its IT Acquisition Center to cope with the growing popularity of the Federal Supply Service's schedule contracts.
IRS vows to roll out taxpayer database in '04
The IRS won't release the initial version of the much-delayed Customer Account Data Engine, the centerpiece of its modernization effort, until 'sometime in 2004,' CIO W. Todd Grams said.
USPS strives to attract users to E-Postmark app
The Postal Service hopes to draw users to its Electronic-Postmark tool now that Microsoft Corp. has incorporated it in Office 2003 and XP.
Defense pushes smart-card rollout into spring
The Defense Department now expects that it will take until early spring to finish distributing more than 4 million Common Access Cards'roughly six months longer than originally planned.
FBI's Trilogy rollout delayed after CSC misses deadline
The FBI has delayed final deployment of Trilogy, its enterprise investigative system, because Computer Sciences Corp. missed a delivery deadline for a component of the third and last phase of the project.
GSA retools SmartBuy to make it more flexible
The General Services Administration is refocusing its enterprise software licensing program to be better coordinated within the government. <br>
EPA questions GAO's audit
Environmental Protection Agency officials are questioning the timing of a General Accounting Office report criticizing the rollout and progress of the EPA's E-Rulemaking project.
CDC awards contracts for IT outsourcing
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded contracts jointly worth up to $465 million to Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. for a variety of IT services.
NIH issues plan for biomedical computing net
The National Institutes of Health last week laid the groundwork for a decade-long effort to build a national biomedical computing infrastructure. NIH launched the effort with Digital Biology Week, an event at the agency's campus in Bethesda, Md., where the Health and Human Services Department unveiled the National Centers for Biomedical Computing.
Online catalog will hold all federal forms
A key component of the Business Gateway project, the eForms Catalog, will compile all federal forms into an online collection, according to officials working on the project.
Red Hat scales up Enterprise Linux hardware
Red Hat Inc. has increased the number of processors its Linux distribution can run on and has boosted the open-source operating system's performance with databases and other large applications.
DOD and VA will test joint IT operations
Eight Defense Department medical sites will participate in joint demonstrations with Veterans Affairs Department medical facilities to improve services in financial management, staffing and medical IT.
Navy hires DDK to help with modernization
The Navy has awarded a contract to DDK Technology Group Inc. for systems engineering and computer forensic expertise to support the agency's modernization goals.<br>
CIO Council has a wish list for management
The CIO Council's Project Management Working Group this month will make recommendations to the Office of Management and Budget on how to further establish the project management profession in government.
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