OPM taps Accenture for retirement system support
Under the $40 million contract, Accenture will provide more efficient IT and business systems to expedite how federal retirees receive retirement benefit checks.
Printing for your eyes only
Silex SecurePrint secures an overlooked vulnerability: The printer tray.
VA changes staff over data theft
The Veterans Affairs Department announced that one official has resigned and other personnel changes have been made as a result of the theft of personal data of 26.5 million veterans.
Boeing delivers 6 more JTRS radios to FCS
The U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems program received a new batch of computer-like radios today. The radios are part of the Joint Tactical Radio System Ground Mobile Radio (JTRS GMR) program.
DHS taps ManTech for partnership program work
The Homeland Security Department has awarded ManTech International Corp. a contract to support the department's efforts in sharing information with its state and local government and private-sector partners.
DISA inks workflow management deal
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded a $42 million prime contract to CACI International Inc. to support the agency's federal contractor workflow management IT system.
OMB's Koller moving to DOD
Jack Koller, the government-to-citizen portfolio manager for the Office of Management and Budget's e-government projects, is joining the Defense Department.
Tech brief | IBM grid management
Grid users take note: IBM Corp. just rolled out software called Batch-on-Grid at last month's Grid World 2006 in Toyko.
Tech brief | MPC all-in-one dual-core
MPC Computers of Nampa, Idaho, has rolled out a new high-end version of its ClientPro all-in-one desktop.
Tech brief | Oracle apps maintain certs
Oracle Corp. last month said its Oracle E-Business Suite 11i.10 and Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise 8.9 financial management applications had passed Federal Systems Integration Office testing.
Tech brief | Office calls on a BlackBerry
Ascendent Systems, which is part of Research in Motion Ltd., has developed the Ascendent Voice Mobility client for BlackBerry.
GCN Insider | Advances in Section 508
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act is due for an upgrade and Michael Takemura, head of Hewlett-Packard's Accessibility Program Office, sounds excited about the potential changes.
GCN Insider | Vista Beta 2: Getting there
Last month Microsoft group product manager Greg Sullivan brought by a freshly burned disk of Windows Vista Beta 2, which he characterized as 'a major improvement to the February Vista [Community Technology Preview].'
GCN Insider | Vivisimo goes beyond FirstGov
Still riding a high from the launch of FirstGov.gov's new search engine, the company behind the search technology, officers of Vivisimo Inc. of Pittsburgh stopped by GCN to talk about the latest version of its Velocity platform.
Shawn McCarthy | Internaut: Open source's impact will only grow
Government data center managers need to be aware of a set of trends that could soon alter both the systems they select and the way they purchase and manage enterprise software.
Fuzzy matching
You're working on a data-sharing project and have established a vocabulary. Great. But even after the terms are agreed upon, agencies must work to make sure all variations in a language are covered.
Frictionless data: let it flow
Think information sharing at your agency is difficult? It took an order from the president to get intelligence agencies to start to pool their resources. In August 2004, President George W. Bush signed into existence the National Counterterrorism Center, an informatic meeting ground for the CIA, FBI and 11 other agencies.
Letter to the editor | FISMA quandary
I both agree and disagree with William Jackson's commentary on FISMA and security. Having worked with federal agencies on both security architecture and FISMA compliance, I see a true divergence in opinions concerning FISMA.
Mike DaConta | The new face of information sharing
Have you ever wondered why they name laws after children, such as 'Jessica's Law'? The reason is that complex issues need a simple, recognizable 'face' to make them real for a wide audience. This is exactly the kind of catalyst that information sharing needs.
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