Telelogic updates development tools
Telelogic next month will roll out an expanded software development suite, targeting federal agencies and integrators.
Palm seeks to break Crackberry addiction
The company is angling for the federal market with the new Treo.
GAO seeks more effort from Defense on modernization
Over the past six months, the Defense Department has made incremental strides in transforming its legacy and duplicative business systems by releasing another business enterprise architecture version, updating its enterprise transition plan and issuing a report to Congress.
House committee wants report on access control system standards for DOD facilities
By Bob Brewin The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) wants the Comptroller General to examine in a report whether the Defense Department should develop common standards and protocols to control access to DOD installations and buildings, and determine whether ID cards are legitimate.
GSA awards Raytheon FirstGov.gov task order
The General Services Administration has tapped Raytheon Co.'s Information Solutions to provide new hosting and professional services solutions to a handful of government Web portals, including FirstGov.gov.
Pennsylvania renews deal for Dell PC support
The state signs a one-year contract with Dell Inc. for desktops and notebook computers, as well as monitors and related services.
USAID taps five teams for $4 billion in technology work
The PRIME 3.2 contracts cover a wide range of IT services, including project management, systems integration, network engineering and security, and worldwide communications.
And another thing...
Early this month, the Office of Personnel Management was briefly in the running for RFP of the Year when it posted a request on FedBizOpps for 'Christmas Balls for OPM's Christmas Tree.'
R. Fink | The Packet Rat: Change at Sun generates light, but how much heat?
The 'sudden' shift of Scott McNealy's job at Sun Microsystems Inc. caught few people by surprise'considering McNealy's pending departure from the CEO's chair had been run up the flagpole by Wall Street analyst Mark Stahlman.
THE COMMUNITY: Sharing time
A panel of federal experts shared their views on the challenges of sharing information across agency boundaries during a recent breakfast sponsored by the Bethesda, Md., chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association.
People on the move
Federal Emergency Management Agency CIO <b>Barry West</b> will return to the Commerce Department next month as its CIO.
Army signs on for bandwidth boost
Months after the Defense Information Systems Agency wired 86 military installations with a $900 million, high-speed, high-capacity fiber network, the Army has taken a major step toward extending the last-mile connectivity reach of the Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion program.
How to chill out
It isn't sexy, but IT managers will tell you that keeping a data center properly cooled is an ongoing challenge. An average rack of servers once consumed roughly five kilowatts per hour. Today it's not unusual for a rack of servers to consume seven, 15 or up to 30 kWh in ultradense, blade-filled racks. That's expensive'and hot.
HUD's team effort
In its Vision 2010 document released in February, the Housing and Urban Development Department laid out its modernization strategy around its core lines of business. To get there in about four years, the department will rely on portfolio and project management'the basic tenets of any large system modernization effort.
When data centers lose their cool
Lately, the weather inside data centers has grown unmanageably hot, forcing IT managers to reconsider plans they'd taken for granted. And data center modernization'the unglamorous second cousin to today's business systems modernization'has become essential.
Agencies chip away at BSMs
GAO has for years critiqued the efforts of federal agencies to modernize their business processes and the IT that drives them. A report released earlier this year highlighted a continuing lack of discipline on processes including requirements management, testing, data conversion, system interfaces, and risk and project management.
Agencies are enlisted to help lobby Congress for more support of e-gov
As the Office of Management and Budget steps up efforts to lobby Congress on the benefits of E-government, officials want agencies to do their share, too. In the latest President's Management Agenda scorecard, nine agencies slipped in the E-government portion, and OMB officials are putting agencies on notice that they must do a better job of promoting their case on Capitol Hill.
OMB to spell out financial LOB process
If competition is the foundation of the Office of Management and Budget's Financial Management Line of Business Consolidation initiative, the administration's migration planning guidance will be the blueprint agencies need to really understand how to assemble it.
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