Hold the phone
There were very few times during 2005 when the GCN Lab collected a bunch of new products only to be left with an empty, disappointed feeling.
YEAR IN REVIEW: Decisions, decisions: Good ideas grow up
IT experts often talk about disruption, as in a technology development that fundamentally changes the way people work and takes entire organizations and companies with it.
New Firefox browser bulks up on 508 compliance
The Mozilla Foundation has posted a Section 508 accessibility compliance checklist for version 1.5 of its Firefox Web browser.
Federal contract law: Disaster reveals cracks in procurement process
The federal response to Hurricane Katrina was a fiasco and, unfortunately, procurement was part of the problem.
EDITOR'S DESK: RIM reliance
Until recently, BlackBerry users would have found it unthinkable to live without the handy little devices'and the mobile access to the work world they engender.
CDC awards program management deal to BearingPoint
BearingPoint will provide program management for critical CDC health services programs, including geographical information systems, distance-learning architecture, and countermeasures and response administration.
Frugal feds like reliable data products
If data were a holiday gift, federal IT managers would like their presents in reliable, inexpensive'and none too fancy'packages
Brian Stevens | Performance boost virtually assured
Although Red Hat Inc. is based in Raleigh, N.C., the company runs a sizeable office more than 700 miles to the north in Westford, Mass.
DISA's data centers to sell processing
The Defense Information Systems Agency is setting up its 17 data centers to let the military services and Defense Department agencies buy processing on demand.
Incoming
The Army has awarded a contract worth more than $2.3 billion to three systems integrator companies to provide omnibus IT services to the Army and other federal agencies.
DOD's architecture work finally gets down to business
The Defense Department has made more progress since the spring than it ever has on improving the management of its business systems.
Information overload a potential problem for FDMS
The Federal Docket Management System could revolutionize the slow, bureaucratic pace of agency decision-making and result in better rulemaking ' or inundate agencies with tens of thousands comments from the public that may or may not be relevant.
Defense turns to ProSight for management software
The Defense Department's Washington Headquarters Services has selected portfolio management software from ProSight Inc. to improve its budget and cost tracking processes.
CHCOC's Dovilla to step down
Michael Dovilla, executive director of the Chief Human Capital Officers Council, announced he will leave his post in January 2006.
9/11 commissioners fail DHS on homeland security
Members of the former 9/11 Commission today handed out failing grades for several IT initiatives in a report card that highlights shortcomings of the Homeland Security Department.
Defense issues RFP for $13b Encore II contract
The Defense Department has issued a request for proposals to convert legacy systems to the Net-Centric Enterprise Services environment.
N.C. county installs public safety network
The 4.9 GHz, multiband broadband public safety network is the first in the country, a Motorola official said.
Survey: Teleworking is key component of agency disaster planning
Agencies with telework plans for their employees are more prepared for an emergency that could shut down the government for an extended period, a new survey concluded.
Defense to test PIV II-compliant access cards
By early next year, the Defense Department expects to have an idea of what bases, and how many, will test new common access cards that meet Federal Identity Processing Standard-201, Personal Identity Verification II.
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