DOD puts open-source software on level playing field
Defense Department agencies are free to use open-source software as long as they comply with the same security and validation requirements as those imposed on other types of software.<br>
Army center helps users standardize systems
The Army has established the Enterprise Business Integration Center, an IT consulting office that helps users standardize systems and programs. <br>
OMB freezes agencies from buying or renewing software licenses
The Office of Management and Budget has directed agencies to stop buying or renewing software licenses to the maximum extent so that the General Services Administration can start purchasing governmentwide licenses. <br>
Government came knocking at Eastern Research's door
For one seller of transport switches to the telecom carrier market, the federal government has become a bigger customer.<br>
AT&T sees government shining in the telecom marketplace
In a shrinking telecommunications market, AT&T Corp. sees the government as a growing customer, the company's chairman and CEO says.<br>
GAO warns of risks with NASA financial app
NASA's financial management system, built out of commercial components, is at risk for falling short of its goals if those components don't work together well, according to a GAO report.<br>
Interoperability is the goal for wireless network
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has completed the first round of tests on a wireless emergency network.<br>
OMB expert helps Homeland Security tackle A-76
David Childs, an Office of Management and Budget senior procurement policy specialist, is on detail to the Homeland Security Department for three months to help the agency build its infrastructure to compete federal jobs with the private sector. <br>
Tablet PCs go rugged
Itronix Corp. is unveiling its rugged GoBook Tablet PC running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.<br>
HSD probes Callahan credentials
A high-ranking career official in the Homeland Security Department apparently obtained her doctorate from a Wyoming diploma mill.<br>
Giambastiani to head global force transformation
Navy Adm. Edmund P. Giambastiani Jr. has been nominated as the supreme allied commander for transformation, responsible for promoting joint interoperability among the allied countries.<br>
Matchup: Let's face it
Are you good with faces? Check the details of these familiar ones from the federal IT gallery and match them with the names.
Seminar puts the citizen in CRM
Citizen relationship management, a crucial element of agencies' e-commerce plans, prompted a full day of sessions recently at a seminar in Washington presented by Technology Excellence in Government.
Packet Rat: The Rat schemes to keep his able-bodied geeks
A few weeks of digging trenches in Qatar's hardpan to bury fiber conduit was enough to renew the wired one's enthusiasm for the finer things of life'air conditioning, indoor plumbing and the absence of sandstorms.
'Did you hear...'
<b>The Crab bites back</b>. Microsoft Corp.'s Crabby Office Lady set us straight about her orientation with this snappy comment by e-mail: 'Dear Buzz, While I appreciate the mention of our site, I think it's odd that your run-on head for my section is 'Windows agony column.' I write about Office, not Windows. And that isn't no rumor.' And Buzz ain't spreading no rumor, neither.
Feds win kudos for innovation and technology
Two Defense Department medical programs, a chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, and a NASA technology and two engineers each received awards recently.
People on the Move
The Senate recently confirmed President Bush's nomination of <b>Lt. Gen. Steven W. Boutelle</b> as the next Army CIO.
DARPA awards TIA grants for research
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has approved more than two dozen grants for its controversial Terrorism Information Awareness data-mining program.
TIA swaps 'Terrorism' for 'Total'
To quell concerns about possible civil rights and privacy abuses, the Defense Department has renamed its controversial data-mining program.
Revised OMB Circular A-76 has changes from the draft version
The long-awaited final revision of OMB Circular A-76 released last week will move the arduous process of having federal employees compete with the private sector for government work closer to the best-value methodology laid out in the Federal Acquisition Regulations for other procurements.
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