OPM taps five firms for investigations support
Five companies have won contracts to provide background investigations support for federal agencies.
Navy engineering contracts awarded to Titan, SAIC
The Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems command has awarded a pair of IT-related contracts that are potentially worth more than $177 million
HP releases desktop replacements
Hewlett-Packard Co. announced today the release of a desktop replacement that rivals many desktop PCs in speed and performance.
DARPA picks SRA for professional services
SRA International will help DARPA's Tactical Technology Office with strategic planning and evaluating technologies developed by industry, universities and military labs.
NIST wants to phase out DES
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has proposed withdrawing the 56-bit Data Encryption Standard from government use.
Conferees approve Defense appropriations bill
Funds cut from several key programs, including the Army's Future Combat Systems initiative, missile defense programs and the Air Force's Space-Based Radar program.
Labor Web site aimed at helping the homeless
Site features links to every homeless program the Labor Department operates as well as to Web pages for every other federal homeless program.
Wanted: New technologies for DOD, DHS
The Defense Department is looking for a few good technologies, and the University of California at San Bernardino is offering help in getting them to market.
IRS to rein in unapproved PDA use
The IRS has more than 2,000 unapproved personal digital assistants that can connect to the agency's network, which could allow loss or theft of information.
Personal Space: Barry Bonds at bat
Citrix Systems Inc. government vice president Mark Goldman, the photographer at lower right in Baltimore's Camden Yards, calls Citrix 'job one, but photography is my passion.' For 30 years he has shot sporting events for magazine covers. A friend took this picture of him beside the San Francisco Giants outfielder 'to show the grandkids.'
Packet Rat: The Rat gets all Googly-eyed
The wired one suspects a conspiracy against him at Google.com. 'They're doing it on purpose!' he ranted to his spouse.
Procurement points
Deidre Lee, the Defense Department's procurement and acquisition director, this month gave a keynote speech at a breakfast sponsored by Input of Reston, Va.
Supercomputing conference
How many trillions of floating-point operations can you conduct per second? The systems under discussion at this month's High-Performance Computing Users Conference, held by the Council on Competitiveness in Washington, can do plenty.
People on the Move
The General Services Administration this month named <b>Casey Coleman</b> as the new CIO of the Federal Technology Service.Coleman replaces <b>Jimmy Parker</b>, who became the assistant regional administrator for GSA's Region 6 in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. Parker had been FTS CIO since 2000.
OMB splits the difference on open source
The Office of Management and Budget evidently exercised good diplomatic skills in a new memorandum on federal software acquisition.
OPM set to recompete USAjobs
The development and management of the government's jobs Web site is up for grabs, again.
Army plans to roll out some parts of FCS by year's end
The Army will accelerate work on its massive Future Combat Systems program to deliver a communications capability and some unmanned systems to warfighters in Iraq by the end of this year, program officials said last week.
Western consortium's model smokes out fire behavior
The Desert Research Institute, a Reno, Nev., group that's part of the University and Community College System of Nevada, is using modeling software to answer questions about fire and smoke behavior.
Secure e-voting? Not this year, experts say
Electronic voting errors are inevitable regardless of the technology, experts last week told a House panel that is grappling with election accuracy and security worries.
Army award for WIN-T is nigh
The Army is expected within the next few days to name General Dynamics Corp. as the prime contractor for the multibillion-dollar Warfighter Information Network-Tactical program.
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