FAA outsources, creates PBO
The Federal Aviation Administration has taken a significant step toward creating a performance-based organization (PBO) in its Air Traffic Services division with an outsourced collaborative business system.
On further review, contracting officers should make the call
The General Accounting Office is considering whether to get into the business of managing, rather than deciding the propriety of, the award of federal contracts.
The lowdown on portable CD-RWs
<b>What are they?</b> Portable CD-RW drives are versatile storage devices that can be plugged into any notebook or desktop PC for playing back CD-ROM software and music disks, as well as those written by CD-R drives.
CIO Council cites progress in IT hiring reforms
The move to change how agencies hire IT workers is moving along as well as expected, according to Ira Hobbs, acting CIO for the Agriculture Department and co-chairman of the CIO Council's Workforce and Human Capital Committee.
Write on target
The options for portable storage range from trusty old Iomega Zip drives to high-end DVD-RW and DVD+RW systems that can write and store gigabytes of information. But for my money, the best all-around storage bet is a CD rewritable drive.
Troubled WorldCom tries to reassure government customers
WorldCom Inc. is trying to reassure jittery government customers that the company's financial problems will not affect delivery of critical voice and data services.
GAO gives White House passing grade on IT efforts
The Executive Office of the President has advanced its handling of its systems, but there's still room for improvement, the General Accounting Office told lawmakers in an analysis released yesterday.
FBI gets records management act together
The FBI has a new awareness of the importance of records management, the assistant director for its new Records Management Division says.
The week's top stories forJune 24 through June 28
<p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/19196-1.html">Benefits portal attracts new partners</a><p> <a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/19164-1.html">Senate unanimously passes e-gov bill</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/19158-1.html">CIO Hitch: Justice must focus its IT infrastructure on fighting terrorism</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/19117-1.html">OPM asks agencies to bid on payroll system</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/19115-1.html">Coast Guard taps vendor team for $11 billion Deepwater contract</a><p><a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/19109-1.html">OMB moves forward with e-gov architecture</a>
Raytheon and Lockheed reach a settlement on FAA work
Rivals Lockheed Martin Corp. and Raytheon Co. have finally resolved their dispute over the Federal Aviation Administration's billion-dollar air traffic modernization program. FAA spokeswoman Tammy Jones called the outcome 'a win' for the agency.
Doc Cooke, 'mayor of the Pentagon,' dies at 81
David O. 'Doc' Cooke, who in more than four decades at the Defense Department was known as the 'mayor of the Pentagon,' died June 22 as a result of car injuries suffered June 6.
AFFIRM confirms IT leaders
The Association for Federal IRM conferred its annual leadership awards on government executives at a luncheon last month in Washington.
Acquisition councils seek input on applying 508
The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulatory Council are asking agencies and vendors for comments on how to be more consistent in implementing the accessibility features mandated by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998.
DOD will cut up some of its credit cards
The Pentagon is tightening control over who can use government purchase cards and what purchases they can make. Deputy Defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz announced the department would begin using data-mining software to monitor purchase patterns in search of misuse or fraud.
Puzzle: Federal IT Face-off
The government's IT leadership is made up of some pretty familiar faces. How familiar with them are you? Take this facial-recognition test and see if you can identify the person from the minutiae of an eye, ear, nose or other feature.
People on the Move
Retired Air Force <B>Brig. Gen. Jerome A. Landry</b> has joined the Cisco Global Defense and Space Group of Cisco Systems Inc. as an executive partner.
Packet Rat: The Rat helps IRS mix oil and water
No federal agency is taken to the woodshed more often than the IRS. Always cast as the bad guy, the tax agency gets beaten up when it doesn't do its job, and it gets beaten up when it does its job too well.
'Did you hear...'
<b>'Alien species invading country at a cost of billions.'</b> Nope, that's not a runner-up caption for the editorial cartoon on Page 22. Nor is it quite what you would expect to hear from the sane and dignified Rep. Sherwood L. Boehlert, but that's exactly what a press release from the New York Republican said. The House Science Subcommittee on Environment, Technology and Standards heard late last month that the nation is losing nearly $137 billion a year from damage caused by 'alien invaders.' Witnesses pointed the pseudopod of blame at foreign clams, crabs, slugs, sponges and'we hope they're not as big as the ones in the cartoon'snails.
FEMA targets public-safety wireless stovepipes
To ensure interoperability and avoid stovepipes and duplicative efforts, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will coordinate all of the government's emergency and first-response wireless communications.
Is DVD a wise archival option? Maybe, feds say
'Most applications take data preservation for granted,' says National Institute of Standards and Technology researcher Oliver Slattery, and that's why he is studying the interoperability and durability of DVD technology.
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