Commerce, Homeland departments ink cooperation pact
The Homeland Security and Commerce departments have signed a memorandum of understanding to improve how some offices will work together on technology issues.<br>
Find a word: Blade runner
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Packet Rat: 'Ax not what your country can do for you'
The Rat arrived in the Arabian Gulf with even less dignity than he had anticipated. Flying strapped into a payload tube under a Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle,he felt his stomach rise into his throat. He was in free fall.
WIT lauds women who broke new ground in IT
Rear Adm. Vivien S. Crea, who has blazed new trails in the Coast Guard since being commissioned in 1973, was honored this month with Women in Technology's Lifetime Achievement Award at the Fourth Annual WIT Leadership Awards Banquet in Vienna, Va.
People on the Move
<b>Ira Hobbs</b> learned about the importance of being a leader within his agency and across government about 15 years ago at a brown-bag lunch given by John Franke, a Reagan administration appointee at the Agriculture Department.
Information sharing on terrorism lags, House told
The Homeland Security Department still is not receiving full access to the intelligence community's terrorist information, according to a department document revealed at a House hearing this month. The department also lacks a computerized system to track hard copies of intelligence reports, and is instead logging them manually, according to the document.
For Army, Future starts now
The Army this month entered the development and demonstration phase of its $14.9 billion Future Combat Systems program, a project to link advanced warfighting vehicles and sensors on a network. The service also took the lead on a major initiative to develop interoperability among the military branches.
John out, Lowery is named acting FBI CIO
FBI director Robert S. Mueller III appointed executive assistant director W. Wilson Lowery to the job of acting CIO while the bureau conducts a nationwide search to replace CIO Darwin A. John, who retired May 16.
HSD names manager, sets timetable
NEW ORLEANS'The Homeland Security Department named David Boyd as the new project manager for Project Safecom, one of the Office of Management and Budget's 25 e-government initiatives, sources said.
Navy tracks patients with radio wristbands
The Navy is using radio frequency ID tags to track hundreds of wounded soldiers and airmen, prisoners of war and refugees in Iraq as they receive treatment at the Fleet Hospital Pensacola, a Florida mobile medical facility.<br>
Congress mulls boosting Bush's Defense spending request
The House late last week was considering a fiscal 2004 authorization bill that recommends $400.5 billion in funding for the Defense Department and the national security programs of the Energy Department.
OMB, GSA to push for bulk buys of software
The Interior Department estimates it will save $78 million by 2007 through enterprise licenses it holds for four software programs. The Navy expects similar savings from the more than 600,000 licenses it bought for personnel support software from PeopleSoft Inc. of Pleasanton, Calif.
USPS lights its way to CRM
The Postal Service expects to save up to $137 million over a decade with an integrated customer care management network it expects to complete by the end of next year.
County finds an easier way to post on Web
Prince George's County, Md., is using Rhythmyx content management software from Percussion Software Inc. of Stoneham, Mass., to pump press releases and other information onto the county's Web site, at <a href= "http://www.pgcounty.com">www.pgcounty.com</a>.
MPC throws its hat into the storage market
Desktop and notebook PC maker MPC Computers LLC, formerly MicronPC, last week entered the external storage market with the DataFrame 310fc RAID device for Fibre Channel environments and the DataFrame 310s hot-swap SCSI unit.
Mainframe has on-off capacity on demand
IBM Corp. has given its high-end mainframe server a modular architecture and virtualization technology to handle up to 30 logical partitions.
NSF planning a vast upgrade to infrastructure
BOSTON'The National Science Foundation is planning up to a $1 billion upgrade of the computing infrastructure supporting its research and engineering activities.
IT in terrorism exercise gets mixed reviews
The Topoff2 simulated terrorist attacks on Chicago and Seattle generated mixed results in the after-action analysis of emergency responders' IT readiness in the case of biological and chemical attacks.
This food safety agency dices and slices data
Since November, the Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service has used a reporting application from ProClarity Corp. of Boise, Idaho, to give 300 employees a hawk's-eye view of 6,500 meat, poultry and egg processing plants.
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