Mission Control: Imagine - an agency getting a Baldrige
What if the performance plan for every federal manager contained a requirement that an organization or program be terminated when its mission was accomplished?
Army delays launch of military personnel system
High failure rates during testing have forced the Army to push back the rollout of an interim military personnel system that it plans to use as a stepping stone to a DOD-wide system slated to come online in 2004.
NASA orders IT procurement freeze
NASA has imposed a partial IT buying freeze to gain more control over systems acquisitions.<br>
Energy changes top management at Los Alamos
Two top managers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are stepping down from posts at the famed, but troubled, Energy Department weapons-research facility.<br>
States, D.C. vie to host homeland department
Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., are lobbying hard to become the site of the Homeland Security Department's headquarters.<br>
Reward offered in computer theft case
A government contractor has posted a $100,000 reward for information about last month's theft of computer equipment containing personal information on more than 500,000 military members.<br>
NARA approves two methods for transferring records
Agencies transferring permanent records to the National Archives and Records Administration now can use digital tape or File Transfer Protocol.<br>
DoD antivirus products list
Here are the vendors and products available to Department of Defense agencies under the contract:
Agencies could be penalized for late payments to contractors
Agencies that make late interim payments to contractors on cost reimbursement contracts now are required to pay an interest penalty.<br>
Interior gets new CTO
John Branan, formerly chief computer scientist at the Patent and Trademark Office, has become the Interior Department's new chief technology officer.<br>
Lawsuit stalls PTO automation
The Patent and Trademark Office has suspended its switch from paper to electronic record-keeping for patent search files because of a lawsuit filed by the National Intellectual Property Researchers Association.<br>
State's troubled knowledge management program scuttled
The State Department has decided to end its knowledge management pilot, which the department planned and implemented poorly, the department's inspector general said.<br>
OMB sets strategy for aligning architectures
OMB's Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office will begin soon to determine how to align its blueprint with the assortment of architecture models agencies use. <br>
DOD Education Activity extends support contract
Defense Department Education Activity offices will continue to receive technical support for their LANs and desktop PCs through a $3.2 million contract with Affiliated Computer Services Inc.<br>
SBA and DOD link databases
The Small Business Administration and the Defense Department last week took the first step toward completing the Business Partner Network for government contractors. <br>
Nelson named to head White House systems R&D office
NASA deputy CIO David Nelson last week became director of the National Coordination Office for IT Research and Development. <br>
Arctic center awards $16.4m supercomputing contract
The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center has awarded Cray Inc. of Seattle a $16.4 million contract to provide a supercomputer system and support to the center, which is part of the Defense Department's High Performance Computing Modernization Center and the University of Alaska. <br>
OMB orders merging of park reservation systems
The Office of Management and Budget has instructed the Interior and Agriculture departments and the Army Corps of Engineers to consolidate the country's two major recreation reservation systems. <br>
Justice IG: Bureau management errors stall IT projects, waste money
The FBI's mismanagement of IT projects has led the bureau to waste millions on projects and to miss deadlines for implementing crucial upgrades to anticrime systems, the Justice Department's inspector general said.<br>
DynCorp deal boosts CSC's telecom play
As the federal government changes the way it buys telecommunications and networking services, Computer Sciences Corp. is planning to create a telecom and networking unit after it purchases DynCorp.<br>
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