GCN Lab: Two new Palm handhelds
Handheld computers for two very different types of users--Palm Inc.'s Tungsten C and Zire 71--arrived this week at the GCN Lab.<br>
GSA awards Global Computer Enterprises procurement contract
The General Services Administration this week chose Global Computer Enterprises Inc. for a $24 million contract to revamp the Federal Procurement Data System, the central repository for all government contracting information.
'Did you hear...'
<b>Fan mail'not</b>. 'Whatever the hair color, the young and pretty Morgan at <a href= "htttp://www.morganshair.net">www.morganshair.net</a> certainly looks better than Microsoft's Crabby Office Lady,' fired back Buzz reader Joe C. in response to our April 7 item about Crabby's multihued hair, at <a href= "http://Microsoft.com">Microsoft.com</a>.
Awards honor e-biz programs that transform
The CIO Advisory Board and Awards Committee honored a broad range of government programs with the 2003 SecurE-Biz Awards at a ceremony in Arlington, Va., this month.
Microsoft widens federal sales channels
Microsoft Corp. is making a new, "gigantic" push for more public-sector sales'an area in which the software company acknowledges it hasn't invested as much as its competitors in the past decade.<br>
People on the Move
<b>Sue Rachlin</b>, the Interior Department's deputy CIO, will retire this week after 32 years of government service.
Microsoft unveils speedy new Win Server 2003
Office 2003 isn't the only new piece of software coming from Microsoft Corp. The company last week launched its Windows Server 2003 family, with prices starting at $999.
DOD sets plan to consolidate 2,100 financial systems
The Defense Department has planned its path to financial systems integration.
Homeland department sets an enterprise architecture timetable
The Homeland Security Department must build a systems infrastructure from the network backbones as well as bits and pieces of IT in use at its 22 component agencies.
FBI's Dallas office fields first-alert service
To shore up law enforcement communications, agencies are looking to piggyback on successful data-sharing efforts. One such project is the Dallas Emergency Response Network.
Intelligence and military look to XML to share data
The Defense Department and the government's intelligence agencies are turning to Extensible Markup Language tags, registries and schemas as a way to share data across disparate systems.
First responders get homeland security network
The Justice Department and FBI are expanding their sensitive but unclassified law enforcement networks to share homeland security data across levels of government.
New Quicksilver strategy asks managers to deliver
In the new E-Government Strategy, the Office of Management and Budget has squarely put the pressure on the 25 Quicksilver project managers.
FTS begins to certify project managers
The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service plans to have about 10 percent of its project managers certified by the Project Management Institute by the end of September.<br>
Cuviello to retire; Boutelle new CIO
President Bush has nominated Army Maj. Gen. Steven W. Boutelle for promotion to lieutenant general and assignment as the Army's CIO.
IBM thinks up new series of notebook PCs
IBM Corp. earlier this month launched the fifth series of ThinkPad notebook PCs.
Survey gives Gulf states that sinking feeling
Two decades' worth of measurements by the National Geodetic Survey show coastal states steadily sinking into the Gulf of Mexico.
App distributes processing across clusters
GridMathematica, a new version of a technical computing program from Wolfram Research Inc., simplifies distributing chunks of a massive calculation among processors in a grid or cluster.
OMB, OPM ISO expert project managers in IT
The Office of Management and Budget and Office of Personnel Management are drafting a policy that would require agency systems project managers to hold commercial certification or show long-time professional success running IT projects.
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