Model programs
With passage of the Clinger-Cohen Act in 1996, agencies were faced with the need to better manage their enterprise architectures'the act mandated an overall blueprint for their IT systems.
Prototype C2 system gets test drive in war game
A Scud missile is launched at the United States. Enemy aircraft are buzzing around trying to gain air superiority by zapping Navy and Air Force planes. The Pentagon learns of the attack through a Navy command and control system that gives joint forces an integrated view of all air defense assets and threats. The United States responds quickly. In just seconds, U.S. forces have intercepted the missile and taken out a few enemy aircraft.
OMB releases Part 2 of federal architecture model
The Office of Management and Budget will release the second section of the federal enterprise architectural model in the next two months. Bob Haycock, OMB's chief architect, said the performance reference model will include outcomes and metrics agencies will use to measure performance against business practices.
IRS: Tax forms will talk
A new design tool for fillable forms will make the IRS' 50 top online tax schedules usable by visually impaired persons in the next tax season. Adobe Systems Inc. today announced that the IRS has been testing Adobe PDF Forms Access Agent, a $99 developer tool, to provide audible instructions for filling out each field of a form. The IRS keeps several hundred forms and publications online in Adobe's Portable Document Format.
IBM's AIX 5L passes DII COE kernel test
The Defense Information Systems Agency has certified IBM Corp.'s proprietary Unix operating system for the Defense Information Infrastructure's Common Operating Environment.
@INFO.POLICY: For the latest in privacy, look north
Our neighbors to the north recently re-leased a new and helpful tool for assessing the impact of government activities on privacy. The Privacy Impact Assessment from the Canadian government is a sophisticated guide to such assessments.
Vendors offer tech-analysis service
Two companies have teamed up to offer agencies the kind of third-party product analysis for which the private sector often pays big bucks.
PCs offer consumer-market features
Agency IT buyers are willing to take a chance on consumer-market features that have stood the test of time, two vendors said last month in a rollout of new PCs and servers.
NASA software finds cybersecurity niche
In the early 1990s, NASA developed a suite of tools to manage streams of engineering data flowing back to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from satellites and the Voyager, Galileo and Cassini deep-space missions.
IRMCO recognizes individual, team work
The efforts of Janice Haith, an Air Force division chief for plans, programs and resources, and the Social Security Administration Inspector General Office's World Trade Center response team, New York field division, today were honored by the Interagency Resources Management Council.
Cyber Eye: Hackers might play games with you
Briefings in Las Vegas was on an obsolete Sega Dreamcast game console used for so-called 180-degree hacking.
Under Control
Because the Army's most famous hospital never closes, its servers and workstations are on duty 24 hours a day.
U.S. Marshals and VA finish testing automated travel systems
The Marshals Service and the Veterans Affairs Department are moving ahead with their own automated travel systems despite little word from the Office of Management and Budget or the General Services Administration about which e-travel system will be used for the governmentwide e-Travel initiative.
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Ordinary reality may be an overrated experience, so the Office of Naval Research and major vendors such as IBM Corp., Intel Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have funded research into Mobile Augmented Reality Systems.
ANOTHER VIEW: Homeland agencies will be wards of OMB
The Office of Management and Budget has the power to turn the money spigot on and off to agencies and programs. The proposed creation of a Homeland Security Department has created a political opportunity for even greater OMB involvement than usual, at a time when there is no bureaucratic or congressional counterweight for it.
Before their time
Kudos are due to researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology for being skeptical of biometrics.
User upgrades govern procurement plans
Upgrading user hardware and software will be the biggest driver of IT spending in the next year, a GCN telephone survey of government IT procurement officials found.
The case of the routinely disappearing notebook PCs
Now you see the notebook PC, now you don't. That's often as much as an agency knows when a PC or other portable device is missing. Many agencies have reported such losses over the years.
TSA starts from scratch on office systems setup
The Transportation Security Administration has begun to put its IT shop in order.
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