Are private intranets the answer for security?
Last September's terrorist attacks brought to light the stinging realization that agencies seldom talk or share information with one another.
The week's top stories forSept. 3 through Sept. 6
<p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/19919-1.html">FAR councils tell agencies to heed capital planning rules</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/19874-1.html">OMB releases Part 2 of federal architecture model</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/19873-1.html">Most e-gov initiatives are ready to take off</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/19864-1.html">IRMCO recognizes individual, team work</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/19859-1.html">U.S. Marshals and VA finish testing automated travel systems</a><p>
Navy chooses contractor to provide 4-D battlespace imaging technology
The Office of Naval Research yesterday hired a prime contractor to serve as system architect and integrator for the Navy's Theater Undersea Warfare program. The $25 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract went to Orincon Corp. International of Kailua, Hawaii.
Vendors repurpose products for homeland security
CRM software for terrorist tracking? The idea seems odd, but Siebel Systems Inc. spent months customizing its customer relationship management tools to make tracking Osama bin Laden's minions seem as simple as handling a customer call.
Afterwards, cooperation breaks down comm barriers
Sept. 11 and its aftermath offer opportunities for people in government IT to take advantage of a collaborative spirit and a technological retrenchment, federal and private-sector IT professionals say.
Special 9/11 Anniversary Issue: Looking back, moving forward
<p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/21_27a/community/19921-1.html"><b>HOW WE'VE CHANGED/PEOPLE</b>: Workers throughout capital cope with changes wrought by 9-11</a><br>Last month, in the middle of an August heat wave in Washington, like a pebble in a pool, dropped a cool clear morning. Defense Department budget and finance director <b>Joseph Friedl</b> was taking his usual commute to work at the Pentagon that day, enjoying the jewellike morning, the bright sun, the blue sky.
The agenda has changed'and so have we
"We've been told an airplane hit the World Trade Center and, well, the president has ordered all civilian aviation grounded," said the pilot of US Airways Flight 175, Charlotte to Phoenix. The other flight 175 that morning.
FAR councils tell agencies to heed capital planning rules
The Federal Acquisition Regulation councils late last month issued a final injunction requiring agencies to pay more attention to capital planning rules under the Clinger-Cohen Act. The rules apply when agencies place task-order or delivery-order contracts through Federal Supply Service schedules or governmentwide acquisition contracts.
Packet Rat: The Rat rounds up IT's axis of evil
The Rat is plotting a change of regime'and not merely in a certain Middle Eastern country that a certain president's father took to the woodshed more than a decade ago.
DOD seeks to mesh IT for logistics and operations
'Blurring the lines' isn't something the Defense Department normally aspires to do, but it was part of the theme at a conference in McLean, Va., last month.
Exhibits mark first Sept. 11 anniversary
Museums in Washington and New York will commemorate Sept. 11 with several exhibits:
People on the Move
<b>Scott Charbo</b> has been named the new CIO at the Agriculture Department, pending approval by the Senate. He takes over from <b>Ira Hobbs</b>, the department's deputy CIO, who has been acting CIO for 18 months.
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.
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