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.
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.
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