Can DOD transform itself?
For Defense Department officials and Donald Rumsfeld, if anything confirmed the IT-dominant direction outlined a year ago in the Quadrennial Defense Review, it was the Afghanistan campaign. Crossing bleak and craggy terrain, U.S. special operations forces riding on horseback with Afghan Northern Alliance fighters used satellite telephones and portable laser target designators to guide B-52 strikes on Taliban targets.
Calendar
<b>23-24 Fall Intel 2002 Conference.</b><br>Washington. Contact the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association; Web: <a href= "http://www.afcea.org">www.afcea.org</a>.
Of the People: Richard Simmons has a lot to teach IT managers
HERSHEY, Pa.'A couple of experiences at this month's Interagency Resources Management Conference made me shake my head in amazement. But each in its own way got me pumped about my work as a federal manager.
For TIPSS-2, easier does it
When Sara Schroerlucke joined the Treasury Department in July 1999, the Treasury Information Processing Support Services contract was set to expire in a year.
The week's top stories for Sept. 16 through Sept. 20
<p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/20061-1.html">Forman pushes House to meet e-gov fund request </a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/20056-1.html">Four agencies achieve interoperable PKI</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/20053-1.html">Secretary Norton is cited for contempt in Indian trust case </a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/20028-1.html">NASA's $273 million launch system is grounded </a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/20025-1.html">Justice, Treasury award $3 billion data-sharing contract </a><p>
Heads are turning for SpinScape digital photos
Sometimes spinning in circles gets you nowhere. But the SpinScape-I robotic control system spins a digital camera exactly where you want it to go.
Electronic CRM offers a range of new contact technologies
A fairly new development that could prove useful to agencies is eCRM.
The lowdown on CRM
<b>What is it?</b> Customer relationship management combines strategy, process and technology to manage customer interactions.
CRM for citizens
When the Transportation Department's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wanted to improve citizen interactions with the agency, it turned to customer relationship management.
Forman pushes House to meet e-gov fund request
The Bush administration is applying a full-court press to the House to authorize its request for a $45 million e-government fund. Mark Forman, the Office of Management and Budget's associate director for IT and e-government, yesterday told lawmakers that the fund was 'critical to achieving the promise of e-government.'
GAO upholds Navy contract decision
The General Accounting Office has upheld a Navy decision to hire Northrop Grumman Corp. to design the $2.9 billion DD(X) networked warships program.
Corps unifies PC management
The Marine Corps is using PC management software to make sure its 70,000 servers and desktop and notebook PCs worldwide are headed to the same destination'the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.
Homeland Security Department must hit the ground running, Cooper says
The Bush administration seeks to launch the proposed Homeland Security Department with significant IT capabilities, a senior administration official said. Steve Cooper, CIO of the Homeland Security Office, told IT executives yesterday that his office is preparing for the possibility of providing the department with systems it can use from its first day.
Navy, EDS re-evaluate service-level contracts
Navy-Marine Corps Intranet officials are making changes to service-level agreements to improve the way they measure contractor Electronic Data Systems Corp.'s performance.
Dell speeds up two of its server lines
Dell Computer Corp. has upgraded its server line with the PowerEdge 600SC, which replaces the 500SC, and the PowerEdge 2600, replacing the 2500.
Unisys debuts storage management in a box
Storage Sentinel, a storage management bundle from Unisys Corp., includes storage virtualization software, controllers, switches and a RAID hardware cabinet.
@Info Policy: NARA makes another half-hearted attempt at policy
The National Archives and Records Administration wants to redesign federal records management. What's in it for the records managers and IT folks trying to figure out how to deal with preservation issues? I'll come back to that question in a minute, but don't set your hopes too high.
IM-Age apps audit instant messages
IM-Age Software Inc. of Houston can monitor and secure instant messages for business use.
Cyber Eye: A digital Pearl Harbor might not be so easy
For several years, federal officials have raised the specter of a digital Pearl Harbor'a sneak attack on the nation's critical infrastructures'to push for better computer security.
Speaking medicine
For 16 years, the National Library of Medicine has been trying to solve the biggest interface problem between computers and medicine: vocabulary.
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