Army tests RF access system
Officials at Fort McPherson, Ga., are testing radio-frequency tags to control vehicle access.
IBM server goes 16-way, on demand
An expandable, partitionable 16-way Intel Xeon MP server from IBM Corp. comes in a 14-inch-high rackmount case like the company's other eServers. But the new eServer x440 has XpandOnDemand architecture, said Mike Nelson, director of Internet technologies for IBM's server group.
AF will release XML tech manuals on the Web
Aircraft support personnel in the Air Force will soon be able to browse through 16 million pages of technical manuals tagged in Extensible Markup Language. They'll use the Air Force Common Viewer, under development by the Air Force Materiel Systems Group.
Internaut: What's RSS? And should agencies syndicate their data?
Have you considered syndicating the online information your government office collects?
Rival agencies take on GSA in federal telecom business
The Federal Technology Service's FTS 2001 long-haul and Metropolitan Area Acquisition local-service programs face stiff competition from a new source: other agencies.
Design Review
The State Department's Overseas Building Operations office is speeding up the design of its construction projects with a Web collaboration tool called Design Review and Checking System, or DrChecks.
Stouffer takes job as EPA's first chief technology officer
<br><b>Debra Stouffer</b> yesterday became the Environmental Protection Agency's first chief technology officer. She previously was deputy CIO at the Housing and Urban Development Department, a position she had held since May 1999. Earlier this month Stouffer finished a 90-day detail with the Office of Management and Budget.
Editorial Cartoon
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As World War II raged, the National Defense Research Council sponsored research into electronic systems for secure communications, code-breaking and measuring the velocity of cannon shells.
Letter to the Editor
Regarding the recent article 'Feds confront their legacy applications' [GCN, May 6, Page 1], from my perspective the scenario is not as dark as it was painted in the article.
Stalled at the pass
On Sept. 12, every IT company became an antiterror, homeland security vendor'or so it seemed, judging by the sheer volume of marketing hype.
DOD double-times smart-card use
The Air Force has begun using smart cards to control entry at more than 100 Air Force bases worldwide and access to 50,000 computers.
Center is Navy's systems lifeline
Capt. Nancy Lambert Deitch loves her job as the commanding officer of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in Charleston, S.C. She became the center's first female commanding officer in 2000.
Major Programs at the National Guard
<b>Distributive Training Technology Project</b> is a distance-learning system for which the Guard has converted space at National Guard armories into high-tech classrooms linked via telecommunications equipment to a central teleconference facility. With two-way video and audio, it creates an interactive classroom for military and civilian studies. PCs in each room are connected to the Internet. The project spans 15 time zones and more than 3,000 communities.
Guard bulks up with simulations
The National Guard Bureau's mission has always been to provide homeland security, even before that phrase became part of the national vocabulary.
OMB anticipates next round of GPEA reports
With one year to go before the Government Paperwork Elimination Act kicks in, the Office of Management and Budget is expecting agencies to show substantial progress in automating transactions, two speakers said today at the annual FedWeb conference.
DOE task force to use OMB's 24 e-gov projects as a model for more of its own
The Energy Department is creating a task force to identify e-government projects it will pattern after the Office of Management and Budget's 24 cross-agency programs.
NLM Web site puts the surgeon general online
Users can find information on smoking, mental health, suicide, sexual abuse and other health issues on a new Web site created by the National Library of Medicine.
USPS looks to travel light via Web
Each day Postal Service IT officials face the potential for 110 trillion combinations of failures.
Defense IT execs are honored by Women in Technology
The Army's Miriam F. Browning and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's Joan R. Vallancewhitacre received top government honors last week for their contributions to computing from the Women in Technology organization.
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