Suite stacks
The next time you enjoy clear California air, you can thank a cheap stack of open-source software. California's Air Review Board watches air conditions in the sunny state, monitoring quality and looking for ways to reduce pollution. Because it interacts quite a bit with various industry groups and citizens, it uses the Web to remain as transparent as possible to its constituency.
Dunnington to leave NASA
Patricia Dunnington, NASA's chief information officer, has announced her resignation after spending her professional career at the space agency.
EPA, industry launch green IT buying initiative
The Environmental Protection Agency and an industry trade group formally unveiled a new standard and registry that help large purchasers of IT'namely, the government' make environmentally sound decisions when buying computer equipment.
OPM revamps long-term-care insurance Web site
The Office of Personnel Management has launched a revamped Web site for the Federal Long Term Care Insurance program, the largest group long-term-care insurance program in the country.
DHS awards contracts for call centers, software licensing
The Homeland Security Department has signed deals for call center support and to obtain cybersecurity tools for operating systems, servers and databases used by the federal government.
Joseph J. Petrillo | Federal Contract Law: Who will protect small business from the SBA?
The Small Business Administration is supposed to be the advocate for small contractors, but sometimes it seems to be more of an obstacle. SBA regulations can be a tangled web. It can even be hard to figure out whether your company is a small business.
Wyatt Kash | Editor's Desk: Formidable imprints
Two notable technology champions from opposite ends of the government IT world announced that they were stepping down. The first, with his declaration 20 years ago that 'the network is the computer,' helped shape the Internet revolution. The second helped forge a coalition that is laying the foundation for electronic health records.
John Chambers | The network shall rule them all
The life of a CEO is a demanding one, constantly jetting around the globe to soothe customers, partners and investors. So we were impressed when we showed up to meet Cisco Systems Inc.'s John Chambers'just before his keynote speech at the FOSE trade show'and he took time to pour us the beverage of our choice.
Incoming
The Navy has awarded two contracts potentially worth more than $890 million for various IT support services under its Sea Enterprise program.
AF puts its money on modernization
The Air Force expects to reach its modernization targets ahead of schedule. The goal is to go from an agencywide total of 1,700 separate systems and 19,000 applications to a better-integrated unit of 700 systems and 10,000 applications by 2012.
Collaboration gets DOD's modernization on track
In just over a year, the Defense Department has made more progress on its business systems modernization project than it did in the past 10. <b>Paul Brinkley</b>, deputy undersecretary of Defense for business transformation, and his team in the Business Transformation Agency have been largely responsible for the turnaround.
The Pipeline
Tiptoe through the tulips
DHS to rate local interoperability plans
The Homeland Security Department plans to issue public scorecards of the effectiveness of interoperable first-responder communications in cities and regions across the country by the end of this year, according to secretary Michael Chertoff.
GSA taps Johnson as acting ITS assistant commissioner
The General Services Administration today named John Johnson as the agency's acting Integrated Technology Solutions assistant commissioner effective June 5.
New Defense center to synchronize intel ops
The Defense Joint Intelligence Operations Center will integrate full-spectrum intelligence operations on behalf of U.S. military combatant commands.
Intel reform closely tied to IT spending
Included in the 2007 House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence authorization is a section directing intelligence agencies, in their fiscal 2008 budget proposals, to tie IT spending to their respective enterprise architecture frameworks at both their individual agency level as well as enterprisewide.
Panasonic extends partner program
Panasonic Computer Solutions Co. has opened its partner program to include federal resellers and integrators.
Hayden in line for CIA top post
As was widely rumored over the weekend, President Bush has announced he will nominate Air Force Gen. Michael V. Hayden to take the helm at the CIA, following Friday's surprise resignation of Porter Goss as director of the spy agency.
Teams forming to review intel certification, accreditation
Personnel in the military services and agencies, as well as representatives from industry and academia, will receive invitations next week to participate in one of two teams that will ultimately make suggestions on overhauling the certification and accreditation processes across the intelligence community.
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