Senate backs $345 million for e-gov projects
The Senate last month took a step toward providing more funding for e-government projects than ever before.
PeopleSoft Financials gets JFMIP's nod
The Joint Financial Management Improvement Program has certified the browser-enabled version of PeopleSoft Inc.'s Financials for Education and Government 8.4.
FAR Councils want Sec. 508 certification
When the Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulatory Council published the final rule last year implementing Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998, the regulation did not require vendors to certify that their products meet the standards in the rule.
GSA looks at Qwest's fitness
The General Services Administration is reviewing the financial and technical capabilities of Qwest Communications International Inc. of Denver for future government telecommunications contracts in the wake of civil and criminal investigations of the carrier. Qwest holds four of GSA's Metropolitan Area Acquisition local-service contracts and a national Web services contract.
Survey finds DOD employees more satisfied
Defense employees have a stronger sense of purpose than civilian-agency workers since Sept. 11, according to a study released by the Brookings Institution last month.
DOD merges its strategic, space commands
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has merged the Space Command and the Strategic Command into a single unit.
DOD biometrics lab looks to expand
Along with testing new biometrics products, the Defense Department's Biometrics Fusion Center is developing a knowledge base of results and lessons learned.
Microsoft hires Massachusetts HHS secretary
Microsoft Corp. this week announced the appointment of Bill O'Leary as the senior director for health and human services in the company's state and local operations.
What's wrong with these pictures?
The government's rush to secure buildings and airports has raised interest in biometric products. But as testers at the Defense Department's Biometrics Fusion Center know, all of those products are fallible.
C2 software peers into the future
A draft plan for network-centric warfare calls for the military services to adopt peer-to-peer computing, which would profoundly alter the existing hierarchy of command and control.
Calendar
<b>13-15 Government Financial Management Conference</b>Bethesda, Md. Contact Treasury Agency Services; Web: <a href="http://www.fms.treas.gov/tas">www.fms.treas.gov/tas</a>; phone: 202-874-9560.
Of the People: To keep and nurture talent, be a mentor
Across government, managers face a compelling need to attract new people with new skills to public service.
EPA gets grip on fee-for-service accounting
Managers at the Environmental Protection Agency's National Technology Services Division in Research Triangle Park, N.C., faced a daunting task: budgeting and accounting for about $125 million in computing services they provide to other parts of the agency annually.
The GCN Lab monitors a dozen upper-end LCDs
Not so long ago, a large, space-saving LCD cost $2,000. Now, there's a plentiful market of such monitors priced around $1,000 apiece.
The lowdown on 3G
<b>What is 3G?</b> It's shorthand for the third-generation wireless services that are coming online, slowly, in the United States and elsewhere. By 2005, the thinking goes, large networks should have high-speed wireless pipes for Internet browsing, data transfers and even videophone conversations.
3G is still on hold
Imagine a videophone that fits in your shirt pocket or your purse, one with a mobile data pipe big enough to let you download a movie trailer and order tickets while offering directions to the nearest theatre as well.
DOD seeks standardized billing and payment apps
Citing difficulties in processing payments to contractors, Defense Department procurement director Deidre Lee last month told Defense agency chiefs and acquisition officials to avoid errors and inconsistencies.
@Info.Policy: Enough with FOIA-weakening bills
I am tired of seeing bills to exempt company information from the Freedom of Information Act.
A California county goes nuts for Galaxy storage app
In Fresno County, Calif., the nation's top source of apricots, grapes and nuts, data storage used to be as scattered as crops across the valley.
Air Force team tests network of blade PCs
An Air Force medical clinic in Utah is testing more than just blood pressure and eyesight.
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