DOD wants unique ID tags on all products
The Defense Department is requiring contractors to mark items delivered under Defense contracts with unique identification tags.
FAA to spend another $57m on STARS
The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded Raytheon Co. a $57 million contract option to continue deployment of the new color display Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System, or STARS, a joint procurement between FAA and the Defense Department.
State bolsters passport security
The State Department has declared that electronic passports will be safe from identity thieves.
Cybercenter monitors data
A new cybersecurity operations center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has been set up to continuously monitor and report cyberattacks against computer networks related to critical infrastructure.
DHS mulls choice of passport technology, as lawmakers clash
Senior federal IT policy officials are facing a technology choice that also has set off fireworks in Congress: Should Uncle Sam accept digital photographs, as well as smart chips, as biometric identifiers in foreign passports?
OMB tries to sell Congress on management watch list
While lawmakers, the Government Accountability Office and the administration debate how best to manage at-risk IT projects, Hal Bell has made up his mind.
Education awards CSC $176 million network services contract
For up to 10 years, CSC will provide infrastructure server management, e-mail accounts, security and program management for Education.
The lowdown on business case tools
Business case tools help agencies adhere to a variety of regulations for justifying and tracking IT projects.
Assembling a business case
In recent years, several government performance initiatives, including the President's Management Agenda, have focused on IT as both a means to an end and a cost center that must be brought under control.
CDC restructures to break down barriers among scientists
CDC will reorganize into four coordinating centers and two national offices.
Turn PDF files into editable documents
The Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format standard is a great way to share information, but it has its limits.
Optimize those hard drives
As drives in both servers and standalone PCs get larger, the need for fast, powerful disk defragmentation becomes greater.
Database, heal thyself
It's pretty neat to think of a computer or a server healing itself, and that is exactly what IBM is going for across its product line.
Gates, Powell: IT's benefits should be visible
One is the richest man in the world; the other a former secretary of State. Both had a similar message this week about IT in government.
Geospatial agency shutters its transformation office
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has closed its Office of Strategic Transformation.
Internaut: Defense shows how an enterprise architecture can really work
With all the talk lately about government enterprise architectures, it's interesting to see what the Defense Logistics Agency is doing to get all of its procurement, supply chain and logistics managers on the same page.
What's new in Exchange 2003
Microsoft will cease support of its Exchange 5.5 messaging server software this year, making it all but inevitable that agencies will need to upgrade to Microsoft's latest'Exchange 2003.
GCN INSIDER: Trends and technologies that affect the way government does IT
Executives from Tumbleweed Communications Corp. stress the company was founded before the dot-com boom and continues to thrive after the bust. No argument here, but a GCN editor who recently met with the Redwood City, Calif., company prefers to romanticize about its dot-com-like name and history of launching from a founder's home.
You've got no mail
For the Social Security Administration, upgrading its e-mail servers from Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange Server 5.5 to Exchange Server 2003 proved to be a job so monumental that the agency had to break it into segments.
Editorial Cartoon
None
Do Not Sell My Personal Information
When you visit our website, we store cookies on your browser to collect information. The information collected might relate to you, your preferences or your device, and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to and to provide a more personalized web experience. However, you can choose not to allow certain types of cookies, which may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer. Click on the different category headings to find out more and change our default settings according to your preference. You cannot opt-out of our First Party Strictly Necessary Cookies as they are deployed in order to ensure the proper functioning of our website (such as prompting the cookie banner and remembering your settings, to log into your account, to redirect you when you log out, etc.). For more information about the First and Third Party Cookies used please follow this link.
Manage Consent Preferences
Strictly Necessary Cookies - Always Active
We do not allow you to opt-out of our certain cookies, as they are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of our website (such as prompting our cookie banner and remembering your privacy choices) and/or to monitor site performance. These cookies are not used in a way that constitutes a “sale” of your data under the CCPA. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work as intended if you do so. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. Visit www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more.
Sale of Personal Data, Targeting & Social Media Cookies
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information to third parties. These cookies collect information for analytics and to personalize your experience with targeted ads. You may exercise your right to opt out of the sale of personal information by using this toggle switch. If you opt out we will not be able to offer you personalised ads and will not hand over your personal information to any third parties. Additionally, you may contact our legal department for further clarification about your rights as a California consumer by using this Exercise My Rights link
If you have enabled privacy controls on your browser (such as a plugin), we have to take that as a valid request to opt-out. Therefore we would not be able to track your activity through the web. This may affect our ability to personalize ads according to your preferences.
Targeting cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
Social media cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.
If you want to opt out of all of our lead reports and lists, please submit a privacy request at our Do Not Sell page.
Cookie List
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
We do not allow you to opt-out of our certain cookies, as they are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of our website (such as prompting our cookie banner and remembering your privacy choices) and/or to monitor site performance. These cookies are not used in a way that constitutes a “sale” of your data under the CCPA. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work as intended if you do so. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. Visit www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more.
Functional Cookies
We do not allow you to opt-out of our certain cookies, as they are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of our website (such as prompting our cookie banner and remembering your privacy choices) and/or to monitor site performance. These cookies are not used in a way that constitutes a “sale” of your data under the CCPA. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work as intended if you do so. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. Visit www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more.
Performance Cookies
We do not allow you to opt-out of our certain cookies, as they are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of our website (such as prompting our cookie banner and remembering your privacy choices) and/or to monitor site performance. These cookies are not used in a way that constitutes a “sale” of your data under the CCPA. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work as intended if you do so. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. Visit www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more.
Sale of Personal Data
We also use cookies to personalize your experience on our websites, including by determining the most relevant content and advertisements to show you, and to monitor site traffic and performance, so that we may improve our websites and your experience. You may opt out of our use of such cookies (and the associated “sale” of your Personal Information) by using this toggle switch. You will still see some advertising, regardless of your selection. Because we do not track you across different devices, browsers and GEMG properties, your selection will take effect only on this browser, this device and this website.
Social Media Cookies
We also use cookies to personalize your experience on our websites, including by determining the most relevant content and advertisements to show you, and to monitor site traffic and performance, so that we may improve our websites and your experience. You may opt out of our use of such cookies (and the associated “sale” of your Personal Information) by using this toggle switch. You will still see some advertising, regardless of your selection. Because we do not track you across different devices, browsers and GEMG properties, your selection will take effect only on this browser, this device and this website.
Targeting Cookies
We also use cookies to personalize your experience on our websites, including by determining the most relevant content and advertisements to show you, and to monitor site traffic and performance, so that we may improve our websites and your experience. You may opt out of our use of such cookies (and the associated “sale” of your Personal Information) by using this toggle switch. You will still see some advertising, regardless of your selection. Because we do not track you across different devices, browsers and GEMG properties, your selection will take effect only on this browser, this device and this website.