Working groups study homeland security agencies' IT setups
If Congress approves the creation of the proposed Homeland Security Department, much of its IT infrastructure could be planned extensively in advance.
Ortego steps down as director of National Finance Center
John Ortego, director of the Agriculture Department's National Finance Center, yesterday announced he would retire, effective Jan. 31, after more than 32 years of federal service. In more than five years heading the NFC, Ortego significantly changed the way the payroll service provider works, and now, he said, it is time to move on.
DOD picks five contractors for pay, personnel systems
More than 3 million military personnel came a step closer to having a unified personnel and pay system last month when the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command awarded five contracts to begin development plans for the Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System.
Army works to meld battlefield IT apps
More than a dozen Army IT systems that handle a variety of functions are being managed as one system under the broad Army Battle Command Systems program.
Slight bump in 2003 IT R&D spending expected
High-end computing, basic R&D get the biggest boost; large-scale networking, high-confidence software and systems drop slightly
Cyberalert centers seek more cooperative links
While establishing methods for sharing information about cyberthreats within critical commercial sectors, the nation's information sharing and analysis centers learned to share data with one another'and occasionally with government as well.
Power User: Power User looks back to 1982 and forward to 2022
As GCN reaches its 20th year of bringing IT and product news to agencies, I am near my fourth decade of working with computers. My stint in this space has been the most enjoyable of all.
Full spectrum
The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, has 'the world's largest cache of portable communications equipment,' said Stephen Jenkins, director of the center's Communications Division.
Editorial Cartoon
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By the numbers
Agency systems chiefs must not only secure their systems, they must make sure people know it. That's why surveys of the perceived status of systems security are important.
Letters to the Editor
In your review of antivirus solutions, 'Four Antivirus Programs Depth-Charge Viruses Before They Can Infect', I was disappointed to see Symantec's corporate edition antivirus solution being inappropriately compared with competing vendors' consumer-focused antivirus solutions.
20 years and counting
Anniversaries always prompt people to look for themes, compare the present with the past, make predictions.
Major programs within EPA
<b>Central Data Exchange.</b> The Office of Environmental Information is creating a portal through which state environmental agencies and other stakeholders can submit data to EPA. The agency awarded a $285 million contract to Computer Sciences Corp. to build the CDX, which is a major part of the agency's National Environmental Information Network. The system performs automatic authentication of the sources of data, and EPA expects that it will increase the quality of data that state agencies and companies submit to the agency.
EPA forges an enterprise architecture
The Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to clean up the environment will go much more efficiently when the agency has cleaned up its management structure and policy, EPA officials have said.
Where are they now...
This is GCN's 20th anniversary issue. Join us in a look at the people, policies and technologies that have shaped two decades of government IT. Those who worked on federal IT during the last 20 years were pioneers. There were few guides available as desktop computing replaced mainframes, relational databases replaced flat files, the Internet emerged and government became dependent on technology for many functions.
NARA issues e-mail archiving guide
The National Archives and Records Administration yesterday released a guide detailing how agencies can provide NARA with e-mail and message attachments for archiving as records.
Sometimes fiction is stranger than truth
What seems like bread and butter to federal IT workers can seem mysterious and at times sinister to everyone else'especially Hollywood.
Our Story
Homegrown. It's a word that describes many of the applications that powered the government's first systems and still fits many of the new e-government apps crafted today. But it's also a word that describes this publication.
Reader survey: Feds identify hot technologies
When GCN launched in 1982, there was no Internet'at least not as we know it now.
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