Army awards IT support contract for medical center
The Army has awarded a $19.3 million contract to ManTech International Corp. to provide engineering and technical services to Brooke Army Medical Center.
Feds are divided on administration's goals
Regardless of the outcome of last week's election'tallied after this page went to press'President Bush's Management Agenda will have a lasting impact on the way agencies conduct their business.
Defense about halfway through testing common core network services
DISA has tested four of nine core services for the Network-Centric Enterprise Services initiative and begun briefing commands about the results.
DOD pilots net-centric program for Afghanis
Defense is helping Afghanistan with a new pilot that tests a network-centric data strategy for the country's customs, transportation and security departments.
GPO moving beyond print and Web
Named 1996 inventor of the year by the Intellectual Property Owners Association, Michael L. Wash came to the Government Printing Office in June as the holder of 18 U.S. patents.
Defense IT management worries about the Y factor
DOD is struggling to attract 'the high-tech, under-30, Generation Y crowd,' acting CIO Linton Wells says.
State lines
The Environmental Protection Agency is offering state and tribal governments between $75,000 and $300,000 to join the 13 others already on the Central Data Exchange.
Oregon city tries out network security appliance
Albany, Ore., is testing the ReadyARM network security appliance from Avanton Inc. of Manhattan Beach, Calif., to detect intrusion and scan for vulnerabilities.
Feds: We must set sharing policies
State and local homeland security IT programs would be more effective if the federal government provided firmer standards and practices, senior federal officials said recently.
California polling sites stay in touch via cellular communications
"There are 1,273 polling sites in Orange County, and each has a cell phone. We've been in communication with them all morning, making sure they have supplies and everything is going all right.'
Joint forces practice at fighting an urban war
All the military services took part in a war game during which they had to find adversaries in a futuristic, 2015 urban setting where virtual civilians were traveling to work and going to lunch.
HHS starts A-76 competition
Health and Human Services will review whether to outsource IT and help desk support for human resources systems that is now handled by 75 federal employees.
Future of war is up in the air, commander says
The success of future wars will be dependent on space systems, Air Force Gen. Lance W. Lord says at MilCom 2004.
Electronic voting: A winner or a loser? Still too close to call
Early balloting on electronic-voting machines appears to be going smoothly despite widespread concerns about security and accountability.
Worm attacks surge, IBM says
IBM's Global Business Security Index, based on data from a half-million monitored devices, counted 997 Internet attacks in September, 27 percent more than in July and August.
Army applet will help secure smart cards
The Army will begin offering a Java Applet interface to its smart cards to provide secure, encrypted communication and digital signature capabilities.
Army buys rugged PCs for battle management
The Army has awarded a $39.5 million contract to DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., for ruggedized battle management computers.
NIH taps Northrop Grumman for bioinformatics integration support
The National Institutes of Health awarded a contract to develop a database and Web portal to centralize and integrate immunology data.
Procurement officers need better training, survey says
Many government acquisition officers are not taking full advantage of procurement reforms that began in the 1990s.
Funding cuts slow DHS personnel systems
Homeland Security Department officials are grappling with the need to slow the pace of the department's human resources system project.
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