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.
Expert says CRM is flourishing in government
Customer relationship management technology is quietly blossoming at federal, state and local agencies, according to Jill Dych', vice president of management consulting for Baseline Consulting Group of Sherman Oaks, Calif.
Power User: Can Flash MX beat .Net?
The latest contenders in the Web wars are Macromedia Inc.'s new MX versions of ColdFusion, Director, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash. The San Francisco software publisher boasts that the XP suite can build what it calls Rich Internet Applications.
Peas and Queues
When grocery shoppers began going online several years ago, the Agriculture Department's Les Johnson decided public-school lunch managers needed the same convenience and savings.
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Signal intelligence has been important to homeland defense since the Revolutionary War.
Another View: Did we lose our religion?
Back in 1990 I declared that the 1980s was a lost decade from the perspective of software development progress. The question I posed was: 'Will there be a breakthrough in the 1990's?' I went on to say, 'It won't happen automatically; people are too satisfied with unsatisfactory ways. We dare not make the mistake of complacency a la the automobile industry; we must push awareness and resource commitment to get ahead of the power curve of demand.'
Rare chance
President Bush's Homeland Security Department proposal has sparked speculation about technology, systems, processes and goals. It represents a rare chance to correctly align business goals with technology and create, as Bush put it in a speech last month, 'a modern agency as efficient as the best corporation in America.' An agency, Bush added pointedly, 'that actually works.'
State team names 'Beetle Bailey' character
A group of State department IT specialists have put a name to the face of the newest character in the 'Beetle Bailey' comic strip. The computer technician, <b>Chip Gizmo</b>, will be introduced to the strip on July 4. The name was chosen from some 84,000 submissions.<p>
Infrastructure needs a structure
Ronald Miller had three months to settle in at the Federal Emergency Management Agency before having to deal with the greatest disaster in American history. He took over as the agency's CIO and assistant director in June 2001, about a dozen weeks before the terrorist attacks posed one of FEMA's biggest challenges.
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