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Air Force advances five-year plan to integrate its security programs

The Air Force, which plans to integrate all of its electronic and base security programs under one concept of operation, recently released a request for proposals for the five-year project.

By Dawn S. Onley, GCN
June 11, 2003

AT&T offers Sonet link for Capitol Hill

AT&T Corp.'s government solutions group has a $2 million plan to wire 14 government buildings in the vicinity of Capitol Hill to a local fiber-optic Sonet network.

By William Jackson, GCN
June 11, 2003

Monitors let NASA Ames know when there's trouble in the air

George Alger supports 4,500 users at NASA Ames Research Center, and they're all 'on one big network,' he said.

By Susan M. Menke, GCN
June 11, 2003

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By Michael J. Bechetti, GCN
June 11, 2003

Significa

The Treasury Department's Public Debt Bureau tracks Americans' well-known habit of charity and their government's ability to accumulate debt, at <a href= "http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov">www.publicdebt.treas.gov</a>.On May 28, for example, the debt stood at $6,547,151,634,901.82. The bureau reported that gift contributions to reduce the debt were $760,005.09 for fiscal 2003. The gifts recorded this year already exceed the gifts in 2002, which amounted to $744,675.06.

By Wilson P. Dizard III, GCN
June 11, 2003

GAO shakes its financial finger at Defense

The Defense Department is piloting an automated system for analyzing how officials spend money on services, in response to recent criticism from a General Accounting Office report.

By Dawn S. Onley, GCN
June 11, 2003

Another View: The procurement train is leaving the platform

A quiet revolution, fueled both by the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act and by acquisition work force realities, is transforming the way government buys. The view'long held by the procurement community'that contracting is an inherently governmental function is beginning to crumble.

By Bob Welch, GCN
June 11, 2003

FAA gets its first chief operating officer

Russell G. Chew has been named the first chief operating officer for the Federal Aviation Administration. Among his tasks: shaping FAA into a more businesslike organization.

By Mary Mosquera, GCN
June 11, 2003

Defense IT specialists show staying power

Defense Department IT specialists in a GCN e-mail survey about work force trends were manifestly more committed to government work than their civilian-agency counterparts.

By Richard W. Walker, GCN
June 11, 2003

Data sharing on the battlefield

Anthony Lisuzzo is the director of the Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate of the Research Development and Engineering Center at the Army's Communications'Electronics Command in Fort Monmouth, N.J. He is responsible for providing signals intelligence to ground troops and engaging in electronic warfare.

By Dawn S. Onley, GCN
June 11, 2003

DVD conference emphasizes data-intensive applications

Agency representatives used this week's DVD 2003 conference to highlight the role of optical storage technology in both the preservation and dissemination of data.

By Patricia Daukantas, GCN
June 11, 2003

Geological Survey knowledge shines in educational DVD

A new educational DVD on Alaskan glaciers, filled with archival images and data from the Geological Survey, is making its way into the instructional marketplace.

By Patricia Daukantas, GCN
June 11, 2003

Callahan will not seek second term as AFFIRM president

The Association for Federal Information Resources Management yesterday said Laura Callahan will not run for a second term as the organization's president.

By Jason Miller, GCN
June 11, 2003

Nine steps for forecasting success on EA

Developing an enterprise architecture is one of the hottest topics for any CIO right now and needs to be treated as a program rather than merely a project, said Barry West, CIO of the National Weather Service.

By Chris Storhm, GCN
June 10, 2003

Weather service offers to broadcast emergency alerts for DHS

To create a national all-hazards alert system, the National Weather Service is offering its radio infrastructure to the Homeland Security Department.

By Chris Strohm, GCN
June 10, 2003

Labor takes on its e-mail Babel

The Labor Department is on track to jettison two of its existing e-mail systems and expand a third across the department, officials said.

By Wilson P. Dizard III, GCN
June 10, 2003

OMB: Rein-in spending on geospatial systems

Federal agencies spend billions of dollars on geospatial systems, but as much as 50 percent is duplicative, OMB's Mark Forman told lawmakers today.

By Jason Miller, GCN
June 10, 2003

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Tablets get it right

When Microsoft Corp. released its Windows XP Tablet PC Edition last November, few observers believed that a genuine paradigm shift in mobile computing was taking place.

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<b>Major upgrade</b>. The first of the Naval Air Systems Command's 15 E-6B Mercury aircraft has been sent to Boeing Aerospace Support Center at Cecil Field, Fla., to be outfitted with an advanced communications system and new cockpit.