FAR rule proposal sparks feud
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is butting heads with agency procurement officials, lawmakers and industry groups over a late addition to the wording in a proposed Federal Acquisition Regulation rule.
Deepwater to link ships, aircraft and land bases
The Coast Guard last week awarded an $11 billion contract to Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. to replace its aging fleet of about 100 cutters and 200 aircraft and upgrade obsolete computers.
Agencies asked for input on payroll system
The Office of Personnel Management has begun a program to consolidate the government's payroll systems from more than 18 to fewer than a handful.
Next for GIS: simple apps using standards
Over the last five years, agencies have made much progress on adopting standards for geographically enabled data, but they still have far to go, the head of the Federal Geographic Data Committee said last week.
DARPA peers at the future of supercomputing
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected four contractors to do concept studies for an eight-year program on next-generation, high-performance computing.
Senate unanimously passes e-gov bill
The Senate last night passed legislation to establish a Senate-confirmed administrator for a new Office of Electronic Government and authorize $345 million over four years to support interagency e-government projects.
OMB to assign e-gov watchdogs
The Office of Management and Budget will get more hands-on in its management of the 24 Quicksilver e-government projects by assigning 11th-hour gurus to make sure the efforts meet OMB's demands.
Search engine gives FirstGov edge
The new FirstGov search engine the General Services Administration revved up last month runs smoothly and needs only a few improvements to make FirstGov a best-of-breed Web portal.
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Federal Contract Law: Know what your software rights are'and are not
With government IT spending on the rise, it's a good time to remind federal customers and vendors that, before signing development contracts, they should review the Federal Acquisition Regulation clauses that dictate the government's rights in software'and follow them.
Researchers in Africa go wireless
Ten years ago, about 70 scientists at the Malaria Research and Training Center in Bamako, Mali, shared one telephone to communicate with the center's sponsor, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md.
Lexmark color printer turns heads with quality
The Lexmark C750n color network printer produces the best color and monochrome output the GCN Lab has seen to date.
The PINprint Pilot's log-ins are very iffy
Should a personal digital assistant have biometric authentication just like a PC?
PresentationPro takes your slide shows remote
When it comes to running the government machine, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations often serve as the transmission grease.
No fault in NEC's fault tolerance
Many agencies have experimented with server clusters to provide reliable uptime for their users. But clustering has its drawbacks.
The lowdown on databases with XML
<b>What are they?</b> Databases designed to store XML documents intact, in their native form. This means that documents can be stored, indexed and accessed without having to 'shred' them into relational database tables. This saves time, code and storage space.
Weather center files data on NAS
The Aviation Weather Center, a Kansas City, Mo., unit of the National Weather Service, has installed network-attached storage to give its meteorologists more time to refine computer-generated forecasts.
System gives space agency an IT backbone
NASA's Integrated Financial Management Program will make data management consistent across the 10 NASA centers, IFMP director Michael Mann said at a recent symposium sponsored by SAP Public Services Inc. in Washington.
CIA will search Web with Inktomi engine
The CIA's private technology investment firm has chosen Enterprise Search, a search engine from Inktomi Corp. of Foster City, Calif., to do multilingual Web searches for intelligence users.
Internaut: It pays to link IT procurement into the supply chain
Not all dot-com business innovations have gone bust. Take, for example, supply chain management.
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