Fuel cell maker wants telcos to get the lead out
A maker of hydrogen fuel cells wants to replace banks of batteries as the backup power source of choice for telecom applications.
Cyber Eye: Could we have little help here, please?
The Federal Computer Incident Response Center shut down its free patch-management service in February, one year after its launch, because of a resounding lack of user interest.
DHS: Many critical facilities are at risk
The Homeland Security Department has identified 1,700 facilities at risk in the nation's critical infrastructures, but it lacks the authority to force corrections by companies or state and local governments.
@Info.Policy: Future history reports on Internet's demise
This obituary is 'preprinted' from a future edition of Government Computer News. Today the Internet was pronounced dead. The immediate cause of death was universal disinterest.
Robots pressed into defense duties
The Defense Department has about 70 robots on explosives disposal duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Joint Robotics Office in the Office of the Secretary is preparing to spend $18 million on 163 more robots, at the request of Central Command.
Costs of geospatial data still eludes OMB, agencies
Karen Evans, OMB administrator said that her office should have the spending information for the fiscal 2006 budget submission.
FCC's Michael Powell: Let the market do its job
'We have responsibility not to draw capital off of an innovative market,' FCC chairman says.
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You might think that going to the beach wouldn't require a multimillion-dollar federal grant program and the use of sophisticated systems. You'd be wrong. The Environmental Protection Agency's Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health program, at <a href= "http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/beaches">www.epa.gov/waterscience/beaches</a>, plans to distribute $10 million this year to the 35 states with beaches.
Another View: The perils of cross-government IT
Most government organizations have made good progress over the past 10 years in building portals, placing forms on the Internet for electronic access, and handling simple, individual transactions such as submitting tax returns through intermediaries. Some now say we are passing through the low-hanging-fruit phase. The 'easy' work is behind us.
Bermuda triangle
There's more than a little hypocrisy in the minimovement to strip Accenture Ltd. of its contract for the Homeland Security Department's U.S. Visit project.Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), in the final minutes of a House Appropriations Committee budget markup session, managed to insert an amendment into the DHS appropriation bill that would bar giving homeland security contracts to companies that use loopholes to avoid paying federal taxes.
Major programs within the Department of Agriculture
<b>E-authentication service</b>. The department launched its enterprise electronic credentialing and authentication service in October. It permits reuse of online credentials across government and provides secure access to information and services to conduct business with government. Users of the system have access to 75 online USDA applications with a single sign-on capability. Nearly 50,000 employees and 19,500 customers have received credentials through May 2004. Agriculture in July will begin a project to issue credentials to all remaining USDA employees.
The Futurist: The Intelligent Internet
The Promise of Smart Computers and E-Commerce
IRS releases $3 billion IT support RFP
The IRS issued a request for proposals today for its Total InformationProcessing Support Services-3, valued at up to $3 billion.
Agriculture growing a training system
How does a far-flung federal department take soup-to-nuts control of its employee training? With an enterprise learning management system.That's what the Agriculture Department recently rolled out with AgLearn. It lets employees search, get approval and register for training courses, track their progress and complete courses. It lets managers handle course approvals and financing and follow employees' performance. The system also houses the individual planning and training records of each employee.
Satellites, from the ground up
After a recent move to new quarters in Ashburn, Va., Veloris A. 'Sonny' Marshall III and his 25 employees are back at work packing satellite receiving equipment into hardened 'flyaway' cases for shipment from Dulles International Airport to federal sites around the world.
State lines
<b>Air quality online</b>. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management launched a Web site to update residents on the state's air quality this summer.
Basics keeps middle schoolers in- and online
The days of kids throwing a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, an apple and a bag of chips into a backpack, slinging it over their shoulders and blithely skipping out the door to school are changing. Some states are adding something a bit more substantial to student backpacks: notebook PCs.
Frustration with NMCI could hurt workforce
Systems commander says Navy, EDS Corp. must better manage intranet transition.
DISA buys DigitalNet vulnerability testing software
Applications that will scan United States Strategic Command systems for potential vulnerabilities.
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