Oki Data's C5300n represents the new level for LEDs
The C5300n color printer from Oki Data Americas Inc. is a new series of printer rolled out in January that the company claims can achieve unprecedented performance for a system built on a single-pass LED engine.
The lowdown on color printers
<b>What's new with color printers?</b> Single-pass technology, which applies four primary colors in one pass rather than four, has greatly increased the speed of color printing. Meanwhile, black-and-white printing costs on color printers have moved closer to that of monochrome printers.
Color makes a play
When it comes to adding red, yellow or blue to government printing, the primary color is green'as in, is it affordable and fast enough to justify replacing a monochrome workhorse?
Incoming
<b>Worldwide network</b>. The Defense Department next year will start integrating a common set of information services over a global information system with an enterprise architecture. The department's goal is to link military networks around the world to speed information to warfighters and decision-makers.
Defense streamlines wartime purchasing
As the military engaged in fighting earlier this month in Iraq and Afghanistan, Defense Department procurement officials applied a special rule in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to speed buys supporting overseas operations.
@Info.Policy: Openness of government records benefits all
The United States is a leader when it comes to making government documents available to citizens. For all its flaws, our Freedom of Information Act was the first modern, open-records law anywhere in the world.
Sorting app helps make sense of worldwide intelligence data
The CIA's In-Q-Tel venture capital arm has handed $500,000 to a California software company to add more foreign languages to its mohoClassifier Web-based filtering system.
Researchers model effects of bomb blasts
High-performance government computers are testing retrofitting schemes to make large buildings resist terrorist bombs, Robert M. Ferencz said recently at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Denver.
Cyber Eye: Is cyberterrorism a Chicken Little event?
The Information Technology Association of America recently published a glossy booklet of essays, The Long Campaign: Information Security in the Age of Cyberterrorism. In his introduction, ITAA president Harris N. Miller wrote, 'Welcome to the age of cyberterror.'
Talk time
Workers at the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery were snowed in several days this year. But a virtual workplace from Documentum Inc. let them get to work even if they couldn't get to the office. 'We had 12 people online and held a conference,' said Lt. Michael Whitecar, BuMed's head of online medicine. They conferenced via eRoom, a Web collaboration tool from Documentum of Pleasanton, Calif.
Editorial Cartoon
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Significa
As the Iraq war reaches its final stages, the U.S. government is focusing its efforts on rebuilding Iraq's economy and providing the institutional underpinnings for a functioning democracy.
Another View: IRS, tax software companies make peace
Negotiated rule-making. Public-private partnership. Model for A-76 problem-solving. Award-winning e-government application. These qualities can all be attributed to the astounding success of the IRS Free File Alliance, a program that processed millions of tax returns for free this past season. Seventeen companies, linked to an IRS Web site, provided the returns.
Go ahead; be a nerd
An old sales saying runs something like: 'Nothing happens until someone buys something.' A uniquely American-sounding aphorism, there is a germ of truth in the notion that the willing trade of value for value is fundamental to the economy.
He manages the e-gov managers
Cameron Findlay says his technology expertise is limited to his years with a law practice where he became the de facto webmaster for his law firm's site. So when the Office of Management and Budget tapped Findlay, deputy secretary of Labor, as the E-Government Subcommittee chairman on the President's Management Council, it was hardly because of his technical savvy.
NASA analyzes Columbia's sensor recorder
NASA space shuttle engineers are analyzing the output from a sensor data recorder that survived the Columbia's fatal crash into an East Texas debris field.
IBM thinks up a new notebook series
IBM Corp. today launches the first in a new line of ThinkPad notebook PCs, inaugurating the fifth iteration of its portables.<br>
CDC and states will share data to study violence
Each year, about 51,000 people in the United States die from homicide, suicide or other violent means, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The nation's yearly motor vehicle fatalities total another 40,000.
DOD puts finishing touches on financial blueprint
The Defense Department will unveil its long awaited financial management enterprise architecture on Friday.<br>
Procurement execs want A-76 but face barriers, survey says
Federal procurement executives support fair competition for government work, the competitive sourcing process and purchase decisions based on best value over lowest cost, according to a new study.
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