FGIPC and IAC hire new director
The Industry Advisory Council and the Federal Government Information Processing Councils today named Joiwind Ronen as the new executive director of the organizations.
Air Force makes aircraft maintenance tracking wireless
Hill Air Force Base is beta-testing a wireless environment for the logistics applications it uses to track equipment for its aircraft.<br>
Online extra: Biometrics testing photo gallery
GCN Lab technician Arthur Moser records dimensions and features of the Precise Biometrics smart card.
AT&T will keep running Medicare network
AT&T Government Solutions has received a $76.6 million contract to continue managing the data network supporting the Medicare and Medicaid programs for the next four years.
Daniels resigns as OMB director
Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., a force behind President Bush's Management Agenda, will step down as OMB director.
Aggregating data doesn't equate to sharing it, one expert says
Gathering information alone will not result in intelligence agencies meshing data and sharing intelligence, one intelligence analyst says.<br>
OMB will release more EA models within days
The Office Management and Budget is ready to release enterprise architecture reference models for the fiscal 2005 budget cycle.<br>
Bush has videoconference link on Air Force One
The Defense Information Systems Agency has installed a secure videoconferencing link on Air Force One.<br>
Senate panel demands merged terror watch lists
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has approved an intelligence authorization bill that calls for increased information sharing and data consolidation.<br>
GAO urges beefed-up reports on cell call quality
As cellular telephones become commonplace, the General Accounting Office says statistics about the quality of calls should be included in annual federal reports on the wireless industry.<br>
Iraqi telecom will not be U.S. development project
Because of commercial interest in developing a telecommunications infrastructure in Iraq, the State Department says a telecom pact will not be among the postwar reconstruction contracts it is awarding.<br>
NIMA will move its buying work online
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency is rolling out a Web-based program to automate its procurement processes.<br>
Army is on a path toward enterprise integration
The Army has released a request for proposals for its IT Enterprise Solutions program, a twofold procurement for hardware and software and for mission-support services. <br>
OMB and GSA will streamline enterprise licensing
Two agencies hope to drive down the cost of enterprise licensing and improve the overall terms the government gets from software vendors.<br>
Army's next quest: worldwide bandwidth
Now that the Iraq war has shown the possibilities of battlefield connectivity, the Army has a nearly unquenchable thirst for bandwidth throughout the world. <br>
FDA seeks data-mining tools
The Food and Drug Administration has signed a two-year cooperative R&D agreement with Lincoln Technologies Inc. of Wellesley Hills, Mass., to develop new data-mining techniques for the agency's Adverse Events Reporting System. <br>
EPA preps $650 million environmental IT contract
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to release a request for proposals May 8 for a successor to its Mission Oriented Systems Engineering Support II contract. The new contract will run for up to nine years with a $650 million ceiling.<br>
DOD's financial architecture gets a new name
The Defense Department's Financial Management Modernization Program office is now the Business Management Modernization Program office to better reflect what it does.
OMB will spend $500,000 on the next wave of e-gov
The Office of Management and Budget will allocate $500,000 of its $5 million e-government fund to hire a contractor to assess cross-agency collaboration and consolidation in six government lines of business.<br>
Outlook 2003 beta deletes e-mail on systems running Outlook 2002
A bug lives on in the latest beta version of Microsoft Outlook 2003, despite two widely publicized fixes. The Inbox bug deletes e-mail messages throughout networked systems that still have Outlook 2002. <br>
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