OPM appeals GAO decision on Recruitment One-Stop
The Office of Personnel Management is asking the General Accounting Office to reconsider the bid protest decision it handed down regarding the contract for OPM's Recruitment One-Stop e-government project.<br>
Notebooks adopt Intel Centrino package
MPC Computers LLC has released a new model that incorporates Intel Corp.'s Centrino processor for high-speed mobile computing.<br>
Defense is set to open a new war game lab
The Joint Forces Command tomorrow will open a 10,000-square-foot laboratory in Suffolk, Va., to conduct live and virtual war games. <br>
Four agencies get e-gov rating boost on OMB management scorecard
The departments of Health and Human Services and State, the General Services Administration and the Agency for International Development took the biggest recent steps toward gaining green ratings for e-government on the President's Management Agenda's scorecard. <br>
House panel takes ax to Defense's 2004 IT budget
A House subcommittee voted Friday to slash $2 billion from the Defense Department's $28 billion fiscal 2004 IT budget request.<br>
GSA hires SRA to support acquisition institute
The General Services Administration has awarded SRA International Inc. a five-year, $8.2 million support contract to help the Federal Acquisition Institute revamp its acquisition services.<br>
Grid computing attacks smallpox
A grid-computing project designed to find drugs that would be effective against smallpox is more than halfway finished.<br>
Air Force will globally integrate security systems
An Air Force plan to bring all base security and force-protection programs under one directorship will get a boost from contracts awarded under the Integrated Base Defense Security System program.<br>
Study finds GIS potential at HUD
The Housing and Urban Development Department is uniquely positioned in the federal government to tap detailed, up-to-date information about local needs and conditions, according to a National Research Council committee. <br>
Davis moves services bill through committee
Rep. Tom Davis has come a step closer to changing the way the government buys services and trains the acquisition work force. <br>
FirstGov wins $100,000 innovations award
After relaunching the FirstGov Web portal earlier this week, GSA yesterday won a $100,000 grant from the Institute for Government Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. <br>
Homeland information sharing improving, officials say
The Homeland Security Department's emerging enterprise architecture is beginning to harmonize information sharing, officials told the House Government Reform Committee this morning.<br>
Kellogg says he will step down from Joint Chiefs C4 post
Army Lt. Gen. Joseph K. Kellogg yesterday said he plans to step down from his post as the director of command, control, communications and computer systems for the Joint Chiefs of Staff later this year. <br>
Wireless is an Army priority, CIO says
The military will rely more and more on wireless IT devices to improve mobility and bring information to warfighters faster, said Army CIO Peter Cuviello.
House passes nanotech R&D act
The House this afternoon approved a bill establishing a National Nanotechnology R&D Program.<br>
Microsoft's new server OS may take time to catch on with feds
Microsoft Corp. threw a launch party in Washington today for its Windows Server 2003. Some federal users who attended said government adoption of it will likely be less than speedy.<br>
Food safety agency slices, dices data
The Agriculture Department is using reporting software to get a hawkeyed view of the nation's poultry, egg and meat processing plants.<br>
GAO ruling puts Recruitment One-Stop in limbo
The Recruitment One-Stop project hit e-government purgatory after the General Accounting Office sustained a protest of the $62 million contract to revamp the usajobs.opm.gov site.
Tracking troops in battle is still IT problem, Marine Corps officer says
Despite the use of upgraded troop-tracking software, protecting warfighters from friendly fire incidents has been a problem for the forces deployed to Iraq, a senior Marine Corps official said today. <br>
IRS official will oversee HSD's entry-exit system
James Williams, an IRS deputy associate commissioner, now is on detail at the Homeland Security Department to help with a system to track border crossers.<br>
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