Energy buys massively parallel Linux system
Under a $24.5 million contract, Hewlett-Packard Co. is building a 1,388-processor supercomputer, the fastest single computer running open-source Linux, for an Energy Department laboratory.
AF picks firewall for phone networks
The Information Warfare Battlelab at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, has given its approval to the Enterprise Telephony Management firewall appliance from SecureLogix Corp. of San Antonio. Now the appliance is going in at Air Force bases in the continental United States.
VA awards $103m cybersecurity contract
The Veterans Affairs Department has awarded a $103 million, 11-year contract to a five-company consortium to secure its networks nationwide. The VA Security Team vendors will develop a central incident response capability for all networks involving VA hospitals, cemeteries, and medical and insurance records.
Energy, NASA add supersized Linux gear to their systems
The Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is buying the world's largest Linux cluster, built by Linux Networx Inc. of Sandy, Utah.
OMB sets deadline for agencies to submit joint IT business cases
Agencies have until Aug. 21 to submit lists of IT projects that could be candidates for joint business cases with other agencies for fiscal 2004, according to a memo from Mark Forman, the Office of Management and Budget's associate director for IT and e-government.
Power over paper
The Justice Department's Antitrust Division has made a case for document management.Systems analyst Lisa Sarubbi, office automation chief Cheryl Porpora and co-workers are testing DeskSite 6.01a software from iManage Inc. of Foster City, Calif., in preparation for use throughout the Antitrust Division later this year.
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If the answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, imaging and Web technology from NASA can help you find it.
Another View: Homeland security IT looks doomed from the start
Even before it is established, the proposed Homeland Security Department is getting off on the wrong foot. It looks as though the department will be unable to take full advantage of IT to ensure its operational success and, ultimately, its success in ensuring a United States safe from terrorism.
Letter to the editor: GoBook was unfairly downrated
In your recent <a href="http://gcn.com/21_15/reviews/18963-1.html">review of rugged notebook computers</a>, we are disappointed with the testing criteria and question the review's objectivity and accuracy, and the resulting categorization of our product, the Itronix GoBook.
Too fast to the altar
Creating a Homeland Security Department'whatever form it finally takes'won't be clean or easy.
Major programs within NMCI
<b>Common Aviation Command and Control System:</b> Through the CAC2S project, the service will coordinate modernization of the Marine Air Command and Control System. CAC2S will eliminate current aviation command and control systems and add aviation combat direction and air defense functions.
Report finds congressional members doing a better job of managing e-mail
Members of Congress are doing a better job of filtering e-mail and using electronic means to communicate with constituents, according to a report released yesterday by the Congress Online Project, a joint research initiative of the Congressional Management Foundation and George Washington University.
GSA redesigns e-Buy to simplify schedule buys, spur competition
If multiple-award schedules don't generate enough competition, then the General Services Administration will bring competition to them. GSA today officially relaunched its e-Buy portal that will let contracting officers and vendors interact more easily by putting the entire request-for-quotes process online.
AT&T reassures nervous feds on IP capacity
There is plenty of capacity to handle the nation's IP traffic even if the UUNet backbone, one of the nation's largest carriers of Internet traffic, shuts down, AT&T Corp. told government officials.
Interior's Darryl White to retire
Interior CIO Darryl White, who is on detail as acting CIO of the Bureau of Reclamation, announced that he would retire from the federal government Aug. 15.
Corps begins prepping for NMCI
In theory, the Marine Corps doesn't need to be a part of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, the single network that will link voice, video and data throughout the Navy Department.
Govbenefits.gov list tops 100 programs
The Department of Labor's <i>www.govbenefits.gov</i> site now includes access to more than 100 federal benefits programs, following the addition of 25 new programs representing more than $34 million in annual benefit dollars.
IRS orders $35m worth of PCs
The IRS has signed a five-year blanket purchase agreement with PlanetGov Inc. to provide PCs to its offices nationwide.
VA sets four-part systems agenda
As John A. Gauss was preparing to retire last May after serving in the Navy for 32 years, he received a call from a friend in the private sector asking him to consider applying for the position of assistant secretary for information and technology at the Veterans Affairs Department.
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