Challenging the status quo
This year's GCN Hall of Fame inductees and Government IT Executives of the Year epitomize how individuals are often able to transform the institutions of governmentthrough their tenacity, vision and leadership.
Strength in fewer numbers
As the Office of Management of Budget's administrator for e-government and IT, Karen Evans has shepherded cross-agency initiatives and helped make government systems more secure.
Working the systems
Retired Lt. Gen. Charles E. Croom Jr., former director and commander of the Joint Task Force for Global Network Operations at DISA, improved DISA's services by emphasizing the fundamentals.
New frontiers
Molly O'Neill, the Environmental Protection Agency's chief information officer, took a chance at least year's Puget Sound Information Challenge, helping to set up a wiki for symposium participants that has set a standard for other agencies to follow.
DOD's standards bearer
Ken Heitkamp, who recently retired as the Air Force's assistant CIO for lifecycle management, helped build a standard operating environment for Windows PCs that lead to the governmentwide Federal Desktop Core Configuration.
The other side of the desktop
Curt Kolcun, vice president of Microsoft's U.S. public sector business, combines technical savvy and a desire to improve government operations in his efforts to help make the Federal Desktop Core Configuration a reality.
Reality Check | A new twist on the DRM
Commentary: Creating an infrastructure that exposes the underlying data on Web sites would go a,long way toward improving information sharing.
Cybereye | A crypto can of worms
Commentary: New Nevada law designed to protect privacy is likely to create as many problems as it's trying to solve.
Shady Internet registrars could get the boot
ICANN sends enforcement notices to several domain registrars identified as having registered the majority of illicit Web sites using spam to generatetraffic.
Technologies to watch in 2009
Cloud computing and business intelligence are among the most important strategic technologies for 2009.
Ga. police automate intell management
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) has selected a data management tool from Memex Inc. that will automate intelligence and case management functions for seven law enforcement agencies in the state.
Gaps in biometric data sharing leave U.S. open to attack: GAO
Failure to share biometric data collected by military personnel in combat areas with counterterrorism agencies at home endangers homeland security, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Firefox 3.1 beta 1 released
Mozilla announces that Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is now available for download; seeks feedback on new features, such as the Gecko layout engine.
EDS cooks up fix for NMCI's Mac users
EDS' chief technology officer has posted a set of procedures so Mac users can access Navy Marine Corps Intranet's public-facing Web services, including e-mail and calendar functions.
Telework survey finds workers hungry for better support
A new survey on telework trends found that federal employees who use a smart phone for work report an average savings of 54 minutes per day.
MapXtreme 2008 employs .NET development tool
Pitney Bowes MapInfo releases the latest version of its Microsoft .NET-based location intelligence platform, MapXtreme 2008.
Legislation introduced to revamp FVAP
Federal Voting Assistance Program falls far short of its goals, lawmaker says.
E-mail security app thwarts spam
Sendio's E-mail Security Platform borrows from the social networking model to eliminate spam.
Unisys upgrades ClearPath mainframes
Bigger iron tweaked for clustering as well as cryptographic and Java processing.
Carlson to lead Microsoft's federal government business
Software giant vice president previously managed company's civilian government sector.
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