Please, no Swiss Army Knife clich's
Consolidation. It's a popular architecture strategy touted by government IT shops
Wireless nets get some help
Back when wireless networks were just starting to appear in government, the GCN Lab wrote a tutorial of 11 important steps for making a WLAN more secure.
Network security's one-way data street
Maintaining a highly secure network environment is paramount for the military as well as for civilian agencies working in intelligence or law enforcement.
Enterprise IM made easy
Instant messaging has been universally panned in the office environment as a waster of both time and resources.
FBI shooting for two-in-one security
The FBI's Los Angeles office plans to add a new access control appliance to the defenses of its West Coast networks.
Moving to IPv6: It will get worse before it gets better
Network administrators and managers are a practical lot. While listening to presentations at a recent workshop on why they should move their networks to IPv6, they were more interested in how to make the transition.
Internaut: Congress set to starve the IT beast
From hurricane relief to proposed limits on e-government spending, Congress is trying to reprioritize the way government IT dollars are spent.
GCN INSIDER: Trends and technologies that affect the way government does IT
The latest buzz in the Web development world is AJAX, an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (XML itself is short for Extensible Markup Language).
Speaking in Tongues
"Instead of managing code, in the future we'll be managing business processes,' promised Chris Fornecker, chief technology officer of the General Services Administration.
Editorial cartoon
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Robert Gellman | @Info.Policy: The Copyright Office's congressional invitation
Did you notice the flap about the Copyright Office's Web site during the summer?
Wyatt Kash | Editor's Desk: Time for innovation in first-responder comms
Innovation and government are words not often associated with one another. This edition of GCN offers some noteworthy exceptions.
Navy taps CACI, SAIC for automatic ID program support work
The Navy has awarded contracts to CACI International Inc. and Science Applications International Corp. to support the Automatic Identification Technology Program Office.
How much is that technology in the window?
Evidently, federal IT managers spend a lot of time window-shopping.
Dave Rensin | Handhelds on fire, WiFi on guard
In 1997, Dave Rensin headed a mobile computing practice at Noblestar Systems, an IT integration firm.
Incoming
The lead contracting team on the $10 billion Warfighter Information Network-Tactical program has demonstrated key technologies to the Army in the system design phase, according to the service.
Army pushes ahead with Future Combat Systems
It's been a trying year for the Army's Future Combat Systems program.
D.C.-area first responders adopt new text alert system
First responders in the Washington metropolitan region are using a common text alerting system for emergency communications aimed at improving communications between municipalities and with citizens.
States see hurdles to implementing Real ID
The Real ID Act passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush May 11 will require states by 2008 to overhaul and upgrade their driver's licenses and issuance processes, and build a linked network to house information proving the identity of hundreds of millions of driver's license holders.
USDA makes Combs permanent CIO
The Agriculture Department announced today that Dave Combs will become permanent CIO, after having served in an acting capacity for the past three months.
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