DISA gets new vice director
Maj. Gen. Marilyn A. Quagliotti has been assigned as vice director of the Defense Information Systems Agency and commander of the Joint Task Force for Computer Network Operations.
Army center climbs CMMI mountain
The Army's Fire Support Software Engineering Center is the first Defense Department unit to reach Level 5 of the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model for Integration.<br>
GAO is looking into phony credentials
The General Accounting Office is undertaking an extensive review of the credentials of senior government officials at a half-dozen agencies.<br>
Significa
Hindsight may be 20/20, but occasionally foresight is, too. This phenomenon applies to an event that will grab the attention of Washington-area IT professionals'and all people in the area'next spring: the return of the 17-year locusts. The noisy bugs, properly known as periodical cicadas, last appeared around the nation's capital in 1987.
Another View: DOD systems should be built on data standards
Defense Department CIO John P. Stenbit recently acknowledged that Web services won't advance data interoperability until DOD has a metadata registry.
Bye-bye, quotas
No one will be sorry to see the Office of Management and Budget get rid of its outsourcing quotas.
Experience is key to a project manager's success
When it comes to qualifications for IT project managers, there's no substitute for experience, government managers said in a GCN telephone survey.
County's tech chief has a story to tell
Kimberly N. Ellison-Taylor has been chief technology officer of Prince George's County, Md., since January 2001. She also is deputy director of the county's new IT and Communications Office.
In his resignation, Poindexter defends projects
DARPA's John Poindexter says the political climate and ignorance over programs that he supported are the reasons for his resignation.<br>
HHS' summer fair is all business
The Health and Human Services Department turned the typical IT vendor fair on its head yesterday, setting up a collection of booths about its IT activities and programs for vendors to visit.<br>
House panel OKs funds for DOD mobile technology
A House subcommittee has set aside $14 million to extend the Defense Department's research and testing of battlefield situational awareness and power source technology.<br>
Two e-gov portfolio managers will leave OMB
The Office of Management and Budget's e-government office is losing two portfolio managers. <br>
Guides to teleworking
The General Services Administration acts as the chief source of teleworking information for federal agencies, with information and tools for managers and employees at its Web site, <a href= "http://www.gsa.gov">www.gsa.gov</a>, and in combination with the Office of Personnel Management, at <a href= "http://www.telework.gov">www.telework.gov</a>.A telework primer from the Office of Management and Budget is available at the site and gives federal agencies a road map to managing workers at home or remote locations.
Remote management
Teleworking gives employees the freedom to work in their pajamas, theoretically, but federal agencies generally want telecommuters to work within a structure.
On the horizon?
Most top-level information officers in the federal government are using contract personnel to make up for shortages in their IT work forces, a GCN executive survey has found. Seventeen CIOs, deputy CIOs and chief technology officers responded to the survey late last month.
GAO questions Defense tactical radio program
Challenges remain for the Joint Tactical Radio System, including inadequate requirements, poor funding management, lack of platform integration, inadequate security and lack of spectrum.<br>
Wanted: Agencies scramble to find qualified project managers
By September 2004, agencies must have a full-time project manager, with commercial certification and significant experience, for each IT project worth more than $5 million.
OPM retools HR analysis
Even though only about five or six people per agency will have access to the Office of Personnel Management's new work force planning and analysis tools, the tools will affect almost all federal employees.
CDC awards Orkand $10 million services contract
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.
New deputy IT chief begins work at FDA
Margo Burnette, a former Maryland network administrator, today began her job as deputy director in the Food and Drug Administration's IT office.<br>
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