Sprint merges its state and federal services
Sprint Corp. will consolidate state and federal marketing operations by year's end. Services to municipalities continue at the local level.
OMB sets rules for interagency transactions
The Office of Management and Budget has no idea how much money agencies exchange among themselves for goods and services, but that's about to change. OMB earlier this month issued two sets of standard business rules for intragovernmental and certain fiduciary transactions.
NSF expands its TeraGrid computing net
The National Science Foundation's distributed-computing project known as the TeraGrid is getting a $35 million extension to a fifth high-performance computing center.
Thrift board puts record-keeping system on hold
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board earlier this month said it would delay implementation of a new record-keeping system for the Thrift Savings Plan until data processing problems are resolved.
New bill would commute GISRA death sentence
A bill introduced this month by Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) would prevent the lapse of the Government Information Security Reform Act next month.
Canales resigns as Treasury's acting CIO
Mayi Canales, the Treasury Department's acting CIO and assistant deputy secretary for information systems, has abruptly resigned.
Diaz moves to the Homeland Security Office
Top federal IT talent continues to migrate to the Homeland Security Office at the White House. Deborah Diaz, associate administrator for the General Services Administration's E-government Solutions Support Office, will join the office Oct. 28 to help create a Web presence, a GSA spokeswoman said last week.
D.C. cops, feds plan wireless net
The Capital Wireless Integrated Network could have helped state, local and federal law enforcement agencies handle this month's multijurisdictional case of the elusive Beltway sniper. But CapWIN won't be ready for action until next year.
HSD agencies will share airport telecom networks
The Office of Management and Budget yesterday said that component agencies for the proposed Homeland Security Department have been testing ways to share their IT infrastructures to communicate threat information better to security screeners at more than 100 airports.
OMB ups the ante on agency IT projects
The Office of Management and Budget has thrown down the gauntlet on agencies' IT investments'just in time for the fiscal 2004 budget cycle.
NASA puts its security in order
When the security staff of NASA's chief information office studied network intrusions in 1999, 'We noticed we were getting compromised by the same old vulnerabilities over and over,' said David Nelson, deputy CIO for IT security. 'We decided to prioritize and clean up the most serious problems.'
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<b>13-15 Managing IT Costs Seminar.</b> <br>Chicago. Contact the American Management Association; Web: <a href= "http://www.amanet.org/seminars/index.htm">www.amanet.org/seminars/index.htm</a>.
Of the people: Technical certification'its time has come
Over the past decade, vendor-specific technical certification has become an accepted industry way of demonstrating proficiency in managing specific types of products. Today, role-based certification programs offer government managers an additional tool, but it's one we seldom use. Role-based certification says a person is expert at a critical business function.
USPS talks up help desk system
When Larry Wills took over the Postal Service's internal help desk organization, he couldn't believe how difficult the automated telephone support system was to use. The manager of distributed computing and IT for USPS said it took 90 seconds to listen to the menu, which included 60 options on three submenus.
Paper pushers put through paces
If your office pushes a lot of paper, a speedy network printer probably matters to you as much as the ink in your ballpoint.
The lowdown on section 508
<b>What are they?</b> Section 508 compliance tools automatically detect and document accessibility failures. Many tools also will correct the problems.
Energy's e-gov plans advance with new e-signature software
With the flourish of an electronic signature, Energy secretary Spencer Abraham yesterday took the wraps off the department's action plan for e-government.
Tools to unlock Section 508
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998 got serious last year, with a concerted push for agencies to make all information systems accessible to the disabled.
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Army C4 management is under new command
The Army last month consolidated all its network operations under a single command.
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