Bush sets up terrorist data council
CAMBRIDGE, Md.'President Bush has ordered the Office of Management and Budget to create an interagency council to coordinate the sharing of terrorist information.
Ag's IG wants faster mad-cow tracking
The Agriculture Department should expedite development of a new disease surveillance system for tracking cattle samples, USDA's inspector general says.
The E-Learning project has to repeat a grade
The Office of Personnel Management earlier this month re-released the E-Learning solicitation after vendor concerns over the fairness of the procurement forced the agency to pull it back last month.
The GoBook III adds GPS and wireless radios
No longer just a rugged notebook PC, the new GoBook III from Itronix Corp. of Spokane, Wash., can roam among four types of wireless networks and find its precise position with an optional, 12-channel Global Positioning System receiver embedded in the cover.
New WiFi spec adds stronger encryption
A new security specification for wireless networking incorporates the Advanced Encryption Standard, opening the door for certification under the Federal Information Processing Standard.
USDA's buy for recreation site draws protest
Spherix Inc. has protested the Agriculture Department's award of a contract to ReserveAmerica for the consolidated National Recreation Reservation System.
OMB sets plan to review all 25 e-gov projects
By the end of the month, the Office of Management and Budget plans to hire a contractor to make sure all 25 e-government projects comply with federal laws and regulations.
CDC awards $74m deal for info center
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded NCS Pearson Inc. a seven-year, $73.7 million contract to provide the public with information about toxic substances and diseases.
Permanent data tags would keep data visible
Although the government posts millions of important documents on Web sites, there's no guarantee that Web crawlers will hit on any one document's URLs or find pertinent data buried within.
Group seeks to define what makes a Web ad
The government's Web chiefs want clarification about when listing a company on a Web site is considered an advertisement or endorsement.
Finding data, wherever it's stowed, is the objective
The Library of Congress has dozens of catalogs of public records that are searchable only by the agency's in-house systems.
GAO: Beware managed PKI
The Government Accountability Office warns that in certain situations, managed public key infrastructure services could be more trouble than they're worth.
Feds set plan to make data easier to find
Agencies have long set their own practices for presenting information to the public, but now the Office of Management and Budget wants everyone to get on the same page.
TSA refines passenger-screening efforts
The Transportation Security Administration is forging ahead with a revamped screening program for the bulk of airline passengers and honing plans to speed vetted travelers through security checks.
This desktop replacement is big in power, not just size
The Compaq nx9500 looks more like a semi-mobile desktop computer than a desktop replacement.
XP Service Pack 2, where were you?
When Microsoft Windows XP came out in 2001, the GCN Lab called it one of the simplest and most powerful operating systems ever.
Apple's wireless base station is ready for takeoff
Although the Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station looks like a flying saucer, only the data flies.
The lowdown on super PCs
<b>What is it?</b> A super PC is simply a desktop or tower PC optimized to meet your specific demands, whether they are video and graphics editing, number crunching, CAD/CAM or simulations.
Power surge
Today you can buy a low-end, off-the-shelf PC so powerful that it would have been impossible to build a decade ago, even with unlimited funds.
Defense gaming fine-tunes soldiers' skills
Where can the military find software to meet its needs for training and simulations?
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