HUD awards contract for $860m IT makeover
The Housing and Urban Development Department put its IT makeover in the hands of EDS Corp. this month with the award of a 10-year, $860 million contract.
HHS team to develop health architecture
The next step for a federal health architecture is, well, the architecture.
AF agency is reviewing bids for $1b project
The Air Force Pentagon Communications Agency recently closed bidding for a $1 billion IT products and services buy.
OPM: Uncle Sam won't pay for sketchy degrees
The Office of Personnel Management this month asked agency officials to be vigilant in making sure employees are not taking advantage of a legal loophole that lets workers get payment for degrees from unaccredited educational organizations.
Linux clusters to model HIV and weapons
Los Alamos National Laboratory has ordered two Linux clusters, one for modeling nuclear weapons and the other for unclassified research in biology, chemistry and engineering.
CDC awards $10m pact for health survey
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded Orkand Corp. a $10.4 million contract to provide IT services for a long-running survey done by the National Center for Health Statistics.
Library maps the future of digital content
The Library of Congress is looking for ideas on building a national digital information infrastructure.
NMCI users get new audio and video appliances
The Navy-Marine Corps Intranet's lead contractor, EDS Corp., earlier this month certified the VCON ViGO personal desktop videoconferencing appliance as the first visual communications device for NMCI.
OMB clarifies FAIR Act job appeal process
The Office of Management and Budget is trying to make it clear when employees, unions and companies can challenge classifications of agency jobs under the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act.
E-Travel takes flight as GSA names winning vendors
The General Services Administration has awarded 10-year contracts to two companies that will help agencies migrate to the pair's online travel services over the next three years.
Software to change en route to Mars
As Mars wings closer to Earth than it has in 60,000 years, NASA is tweaking the software forthe two rovers speeding toward the Red Planet.
Calendar
<b>23-25 Enterprise Integration Expo</b><br>Vienna, Va. Contact the Association for Enterprise Intergration; Web: <a href= "http://www.afei.org">www.afei.org</a>; phone: 703-247-9473.
Executive Suite: Civility matters
Over the past years I have personally observed and heard from colleagues about some disquieting scenes:
Interior puts horse before cart
Too often acquisition is the 'tail that wags the dog''agencies bring in contracting officers after they have started planning a project, and that ends up delaying things, several procurement executives recently said.
GAO: Integrate active and reserve readiness systems
The Defense Department cannot efficiently track about 300,000 of the 1.2 million National Guard and Reserve personnel, on active duty since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, said a General Accounting Office report released yesterday.
Options multiply for portable mass storage
With Universal Serial Bus 2.0, portable storage is about speed more than capacity. Even so, USB storage devices have very different prices and internal processing rates.
HP's Pavilion ze5300 matches power with price
At less than $1,900, you might think that the Hewlett-Packard Pavilion ze5300 hardly belongs in a guide to power-user notebook PCs, but think again.
The lowdown on power-user notebooks
<b>What is it?</b> A power-user notebook pushes one or more of the limits of technology. Just which limits it stretches will depend on the precise job it is being required to do.
Power users take note
Power-user notebook PCs are the Hummers of mobile computing. Most of them are fast, powerful'and heavy. In fact, many of them are so heavy that you might wish they had wheels, just like their gas-guzzling counterparts.
Incoming
<b>Testing deal</b>. The Air Force Materiel Command has awarded a 12-year, $2.7 billion operations, maintenance and information management support contract to Computer Sciences Corp., General Physics Corp. of New York, and Jacobs Engineering Group of Pasadena, Calif.
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