What IT money?
The Bush administration's proposed IT spending for fiscal 2004 is less than it seems. $59.3 billion is a big number. But it is only 2.2 percent more than what the administration expects to spend in 2003, and nearly all the increase is for the Homeland Security Department.
AT&T claws back in federal game
Christopher Rooney, president of AT&T Corp.'s government solutions group in McLean, Va., and a 20-year veteran of the telecommunications industry, heads sales to federal, state and local governments.
Energy awards $409m for seat management
The Energy Department has awarded a five-year, $409 million task order for seat management and IT and telecommunications support.
Agencies forge ahead with financial overhauls
Four departments are plunging ahead with plans to overhaul financial systems, even though project leaders have no assurance of funding and the Office of Management and Budget has designated such systems targets for consolidation next year.
GoLearn gets fee-for-service courses
The Office of Personnel Management last month introduced a fee-for-service component to the government's online learning portal, at <a href= "http://www.golearn.gov">www.golearn.gov</a>.
Software vendors serve up combination platforms
Aether Systems Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. said they will jointly sell their product platforms to offer federal agencies mobile software based on open standards.<br>
Database finds new home on Tablet PC
The Tablet PC now has a health care database management system on its roster of software applications.<br>
NIMA's ruling on unions will affect some IT workers' bargaining rights
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency has taken away the collective bargaining rights of about 1,000 cartographers, digital imaging and data management specialists, and security guards whose work directly affects national security.
Homeland enterprise architecture due by fall
The Homeland Security Department expects to craft most of an enterprise architecture for the nation's response to terrorism by Sept. 1, department CIO Stephen Cooper said today.<br>
NIMA wants to morph into NGA
Given its new strategy to integrate imaging and mapping efforts, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency needs a name that better reflects its work, the agency's director says.
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Federal Contract Law: How an old contract came back to bite du Pont
Resolving disputes through litigation is a notoriously slow process. Even so, I was taken aback recently by a federal court ruling. The Court of Federal Claims had resolved questions arising under a contract dating back more than a half century, to World War II.
NIMA chief maps out new goals
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper has two major challenges on his mind these days: How to get the National Imagery and Mapping Agency to stay focused on its current mission, and how to push NIMA's employees on to tackle the next and after-next goals.
Personal DBMSes gain power
A few years ago, the poor quality of interfaces for desktop database programs discouraged many workers from getting rid of their filing cabinets and Rolodexes.
The lowdown on a NAS server
<b>What is it?</b> A NAS server is an appliance dedicated to storage and file sharing. It comes with a stripped-down, embedded operating system and is attached directly to the network, not to a general-purpose PC server. It serves up files to multiple clients using different operating systems, appearing to users as if it were a native file server.
NAS spells relief from storage woes
The scenario is all too familiar to network administrators: Your network file servers are running out of storage space, and you can't think of any more quick fixes for the problem.
TSA performance bonuses are pass-fail
As the Transportation Security Administration tries to establish a results-oriented work culture, the fledgling agency is using an interim performance management system to decide who gets bonuses, the GAO said in a report today.<br>
Feds model bomb blasts to stabilize large buildings
High-performance government computers are testing retrofitting schemes to make large buildings resist terrorist bombs.<br>
New systems assist Columbia investigation
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board, which is probing the Feb. 1 shuttle crash, is making use of several new systems to help it pinpoint the cause of the mishap, its leadership said.
Terrorism threat center to meld homeland systems
The government's new nerve center for homeland security, announced in President Bush's State of the Union address last month, is intended to weave together all strands of federal, state and local information systems to bolster collaboration and help thwart attacks.
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