Quantum's new dual tape library
A storage company that has been a major backer of the Super Digital Linear Tape format has an automated enterprise tape library for both SDLT and Linear Tape Open 2 formats.
Power User: Don't search for text with all the wrong tools
Whether you regularly dig through more than 15,000 documents you've authored or delve into years of records created by others, using Microsoft Office search tools is nothing short of torture.
How Interior employees learned their new work alphabet
Last October, the Interior Department began requiring its 60,000 employees to detail how they spend each hour of the workday under activity-based costing.
Federal IT spending to hit a plateau, research firm says
Growth in federal IT spending is expected to level out over the next five years, a market research firm predicts.<br>
State lines
<b>No wires</b>. Wireless networking is becoming a top priority of many state and local agencies for public safety communications.For example, Montgomery County, Md., government has dedicated 44 802.11b wireless hot spots to public safety mobile users, said Barbara Garrard, chief of enterprise infrastructure for the county's Technology Services Department, at the recent FOSE trade show in Washington.
Homeland security gets to local level
When Anaheim, Calif., launches its new virtual operations center for homeland security in July, top officials will be able to monitor public systems from any PC.
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Wild horses and burros may be a low-tech community, but they need the help of sophisticated federal computer systems, too.Under the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971, the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management runs an adoption program for animals removed from public lands. BLM thins the herds because they lack natural predators and reproduce at a rate of 18 percent annually'risking overgrazing and starvation.
Federal Contract Law: DHS sets fierce procurement rules
Companies seeking to do business with the Homeland Security Department are eager for any clues to the characteristics of this still-new customer. They especially want to know whether and how its contracting practices will differ from those of the legacy bureaus that Congress assembled to form the department. People in other agencies ought to be curious too.
Uncommon leadership
Recently I attended a retirement dinner for the man who hired me into the business-to-business publishing field nearly 25 years ago. Although I haven't worked for him in many years, he has remained a friend and adviser through the years.
HHS names Havekost new CIO
Charles Havekost, program manager for Grants.gov, will become the CIO at Health and Human Services.
DHS gains online reference service
The Library of Congress' Federal Library and Information Center Committee has sponsored a new online reference service for Homeland Security Department employees.<br>
Col. Victoria A. Velez - DISA: The power of sharing
For Air Force Col. Victoria A. Velez, the word 'empower' has become a bit worn-out. But she still embraces the idea it conveys. 'I hate to use the word 'empower' because I think sometimes people overuse it,' said Velez, commander of the Defense Information Systems Agency's Joint Interoperability Test Command at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
DHS wants system to help identify suspicious activity
The Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to spend $5 million on two projects for automated scene understanding.<br>
FDIC awards $12 million software pact
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has awarded a five-year contract to Advanced Technology Systems Inc. for support software.
State, NARA complete first transfer of electronic records
The State Department and the National Archives and Records Administration today completed the first electronic transfer of diplomatic records.<br>
Clinton Swett - DFAS: Adapt and improvise
In the Marines Corps, leadership style has few nuances. You issue an order. You expect it to be obeyed. But as CIO and director of the Technology Services Organization at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service in Kansas City, Mo., Clinton Swett has had to modify that one-way-street style of leadership.
Mary Ann Rockey - Navy: Steady ship
In the summer of 2001, the Navy was considering a Web portal through which widely dispersed senior Navy leaders could collaborate and chat. On Sept. 11 that year, the need became urgent, and the job was handed to Mary Ann Rockey.
Defense agencies develop data-sharing standard
The Defense Department and defense agencies from several countries have developed a standard for documenting and sharing configuration information about large systems.<br>
George Reynolds - Trinity County, CA: From the ground up
Officials in Trinity County, Calif., where the discovery of gold in 1848 triggered the California Gold Rush, struck gold of a different sort a century and a half later when they hired George Reynolds. They just didn't know it at the time.
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