Frost and Snow are part of NOAA's summer forecasts
Hurricane and tropical storm forecasts are coming straight from Frost and Snow.Those are nicknames for partitions in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's new supercomputing workhorse: an IBM SP parallel system with theoretical peak speed of 11.4 trillion operations per second'more than twice as fast as the system it replaced.
Rothwell to be Homeland Security procurement chief
Greg Rothwell, deputy chief of agencywide services at the IRS, soon will be named procurement chief of the Homeland Security Department.<br>
Data squeeze
Just as rockets must blast off within their launch windows, the Air Force group that helps NASA get rockets off the ground was constrained by a different kind of window'the time needed for daily data backups.
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By the numbers
Federal IT investment planners don't usually wear black tie and sip dry martinis as they evaluate systems purchases. But they can use a statistical technique named after an exclusive gambling center when planning projects.
Letters to the editor: Readers debate experience versus degrees
The problem is on the table, and everyone is looking under it!The issue is the [academic] degrees but not for the reason most think. It's easy to hire someone because they have a degree. You don't have to evaluate them or their competition; you take the applicant with the degrees. Government and corporate hiring practices demand the paper, ability be damned.
Hardware's fortunes brighten, architect says
Enterprise efforts promote hardware clustering, industry systems architect says.<br>
Defense IG criticizes business modernization
A Defense Department Inspector General's report is critical of DOD's Business Enterprise Architecture.<br>
Vendors say U.S. Visit deadlines are no easy task
Vendors have warned Homeland Security Department officials that the ambitious deadlines for its entry-exit biometrics program will be "doable, but difficult."<br>
Baby steps
Between the development of the Homeland Security Department and the Office of Management and Budget's hallowed e-government efforts, you could almost forget there's a vast government still plugging away at unglamorous routine.
Sometimes a bit of spending is wise
After a 37-year Air Force career, four-star Gen. Alfred G. Hansen retired in 1989 and went back to work in the aerospace industry. Now president and chief executive officer of EMS Technologies Inc. of Atlanta, Hansen said his goal is to make EMS 'a billion-dollar company.'
At DHS, meshing IT takes tact
Homeland Security Department leaders want to reduce the number of systems across the department, but managers have to take care in how they cut, CIO Steve Cooper said last month.
OPM set to standardize personnel data
Of the 89 items of information that agencies collect for a civilian employee's personnel file, an address is not among them.In fact, the information that agencies collect seems more useful in compiling a statistical database rather than a complete and useful employee record, Office of Personnel Management officials say. The lack of some information slows down the movement of personnel records and requires additional work by human resources employees.
OMB sets plan for next-generation e-gov efforts
Agencies will submit business cases for a second round of e-government projects by Sept. 8, a senior administration official told lawmakers today.<br>
Lawmakers ask GAO to merge diploma mill probes
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) today said they have asked the General Accounting Office to investigate the use of diploma mill degrees by federal employees. <br>
Longtime fed joins Orkand IT team
Eli Walker, former associate deputy administrator of public health and science at the Food Safety and Inspection Service, has joined Orkand Corp.<br>
DHS buys Microsoft enterprise license from Dell
The Homeland Security Department has awarded a contract to Dell Computer Corp. to purchase an enterprise license for Microsoft software, sources said. <br>
Little progress on e-gov in latest management scorecard
'More than meets the eye' is how administration officials today described the latest scores for agencies' work on the President's Management Agenda.<br>
Defense task force calls for major DFARS changes
A Defense Department task force has proposed changes that would slash the 1,400-page Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement by 40 percent and revise another 22 percent.<br>
Collins queries Labor about Callahan
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), chairwoman of the Governmental Affairs Committee, yesterday sought details about the Labor Department's position regarding Laura Callahan's questionable academic degrees and the department's policies about similar situations. <br>
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