FERC will trim its CIO office staff by half
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is reorganizing its CIO office'trimming the staff by 50 percent and reassigning employees almost exclusively to policy and oversight duties.
State creates E-Diplomacy Office to coordinate user needs with IT
Pinstripe-wearing diplomats will work side-by-side with khaki-clad techies in the State Department's E-Diplomacy Office.
DOD, NASA and NOAA award $4.5b satellite deal
A trio of agencies recently awarded a $4.5 billion contract to TRW Inc. to build a satellite system that will combine defense and environmental missions.
USDA speeds toward e-filing
More by congressional prodding than by choice, the Agriculture Department finds itself among the front-runners of agencies working to meet the requirements of the Government Paperwork Elimination Act.
NIH taps SRA to test new technologies, data modeling
The National Institutes of Health has awarded SRA International Inc. a six-year, $7 million follow-on task order for IT consulting services.
Standards agency consolidates services buys
The National Institute of Standards and Technology plans to consolidate scores of IT services buys, using a slate of vendors already approved by the Commerce Department.
NIST simulator tells WTC story
To understand the fires that helped bring down the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, National Institute of Standards and Technology scientists are simulating the collapse on computers.
Feds discuss plans to merge systems for proposed HSD
HERSHEY, Pa.'The Homeland Security Office has begun meeting regularly with the IT officials in the 24 organizations slated to become part of the proposed HS Department.
New hash standard set
Secretary of Commerce Don Evans has approved a new secure hashing standard for sensitive but unclassified information. It will become mandatory Feb. 1.
Trade show badges track attendees
Using tracking technology developed for Defense Department materiel logistics, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications has designed optional radio frequency badges that will track the interests and movements of attendees at November's Supercomputing 2002 trade show in Baltimore.
Wall display is a giant monitor for collaborators
An $11,825, 60-inch electronic Wall Display from 3M Co. can plug into a notebook or desktop PC and act as a giant monitor on which users can create or edit documents, presentations and spreadsheets.
Defense teams study biometrics for smart cards
Two teams are evaluating biometric technologies for use with the Defense Department's Common Access Card program. DOD will decide in November which type to use.
Air Force comm agency switches to Dell servers
The Air Force Pentagon Communications Agency will replace 400 Compaq Computer Corp. servers with 100 Dell PowerEdge rackmounted Pentium 4 servers.
Suit seeks to slow automation project at PTO
Charging that the Patent and Trademark Office's databases are riddled with errors, the National Intellectual Property Researchers Association late last month filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to stop the phasing out of paper patent and trademark records.
OMB prods agencies to standardize geodata
The Office of Management and Budget has begun a campaign to standardize the government's collection and distribution of geospatial data.
GAO analysts ditch those sticky notes
Ever wonder how the General Accounting Office compiles a report full of seemingly endless details about projects at multiple agencies in quick fashion? For years, GAO analysts mostly did this work by hand, shuffling and reshuffling paper and electronic files gathered by auditors. One senior analyst, <b>Kevin Dooley</b>, figured there had to be a better way than paging through documents replete with hundreds of sticky notes.
Calendar
<b>7-8 Enterprise Architecture: Your Blueprint for Transformation Conference.</b><br> Washington. Contact the Digital Government Institute; phone: 202-624-1752; Web: <a href= "http://www.joinup.org/digitalgovernment/secure/enterprisearch.asp">here</a>.
Of the People: Sept. 11 anniversary casts budget process in a new light
Breathe deeply ... release ... relax. Feel better? I do. We've not quite made it to the end of the fiscal year, but the pace seems to be accelerating with year-end closings, the budget season, and the reminders and ceremonies to mark Sept. 11.
Why not DVD-R?
When the GCN Lab set out to review storage drives, we planned to include both CD-recordable and DVD-recordable types.
Rewritable drives burn bright
The 1.44M floppy drive is an endangered species largely because its primary predator, the CD-rewritable drive, can store up to 700M per disk and costs only about $100.
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