Making the list
Savant's anti-malware software acts as a bouncer.
Virtually amazing
Altiris Software Virtualization Solution 2.0 can simplify the program maintenance for a single computer or an entire network.
Big speed, small package
The xw4400 HP workstation looks like a rather unassuming desktop PC, but beneath that plastic-and-metal cover beats the heart of a true performance monster.
OMB: Health IT services are accountable
The Office of Management and Budget plans to evaluate the four main agencies involved with health IT on how well they provide information on quality and cost to consumers.
DOD shifts budget priorities
Based on President Bush's fiscal 2008 budget request, experts predict funding and progress on programs such as the IT components of Future Combat Systems, the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical and the Joint Tactical Radio System will be hampered by DOD's more immediate need to fund the war on terror.
Providers look for a level playing field
OMB has not decided how to resolve inequities in the 1932 Economy Act.
Leaders want reporting on same page
Common accounting code could weed out some of the 'thousand flowers.'
The big issue for FM LOB
Small agencies see the benefits in shared services, but large agencies don't want to give up their control.
DHS drops using RFID tags for U.S. Visit
Long-range technology proves to be ineffective.
Many HSPD-12 cards fail their first test
A majority of the ID cards agencies issued to meet Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 fell short of complying with the federal standard and must be retested.
And another thing...
The smart-card industry rolled into Washington hoping to educate lawmakers' staff on the necessity and benefits of their technology.
R. Fink | The Packet Rat: Hammer time for electronic IDs
The difference between being a financially secure, contributing member of society and a pauper terrorist is increasingly measured by a thin piece of plastic.
GCN at 25: VAX for the memory
With a 32-bit architecture and the use of virtual memory to manage its address space, the VAX was a pioneer in 1977.
The reluctance to reveal outsourcing data
I was glad to see GCN's story, 'Government's other IT workforce,' (Dec. 12). It brings attention to a long-standing issue of just how reluctant feds and contractors are to reveal how many contractors are doing government work.
Wyatt Kash | Editor's Desk: Behind the Budget
Considering how many twists and turns President Bush's fiscal 2007 budget proposal has endured on the way to congressional funding, it's hard to put too much stock in the budget numbers just released in his 2008 proposal.
Richard Campbell | The New Language of the Bottom Line
Richard Campbell has been one of the key players in the government's efforts to make use of the Extensible Business Reporting Language.
Incoming
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Air Force Explores the Next Frontier
The Cyber Command plans to move beyond the idea of cyberspace 'as network operations, information operations or use of the Internet as an enabler for military operations in physical domains,' according to Lt. Gen. Robert Elder.
Common criteria graduates
Versions 12.3(14)T and 12.4(4)T of the IOS Firewall from Cisco Systems Inc. has received Evaluation Assurance Level 4 Common Criteria certification.
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