Budgets and mandates slow adoption of e-voting
Security concerns haven't been a deterrent to state and local adoption of electronic voting systems, election officials and e-voting advocates said today.<br>
OPM issues new RFI for Recruitment One-Stop project
The Office of Personnel Management is asking vendors for ideas to improve its USAJobs Web portal, a sign that the agency could be ready to address the uncertain status of its plans for the site.<br>
DOD set to issue policy on WiFi use
The Defense Department will soon issue a policy to guide the use of WiFi equipment, said Ronald Jost, director of wireless technology for the Department of Defense.
DHS infrastructure faces cultural, budget hurdles
The Homeland Security Department is slowly making progress toward a common IT infrastructure, but culture clashes and tight budgets remain obstacles to creating a unified technology platform, department and industry officials said.
Haycock to leave OMB
Robert Haycock, the Office of Management and Budget's chief architect, will step down April 30.
Army awards contract for upgrade at NETCOM
The Army has purchased licenses for software from Quest Software Inc. to migrate and manage an infrastructure upgrade in the Army's Network Enterprise Technology Command and the Army's CIO office.
Power protectors
People on the downtown Washington office block that houses GCN recently lost hundreds of productive hours to a one-second power failure. People yelled and pulled their hair as their unsaved computer work vanished into the ether. Me? I didn't even notice. My work was protected by an uninterruptible power system.
The lowdown on HR applications
<b>What are they?</b> Human resources applications include traditional HR management systems, comprehensive enterprise resource planning systems and targeted apps for functions such as recruiting. A growing number are designed specifically for government use.
Supercomputing's latest challenge: Keeping cool
Organizations building and running supercomputers need to develop new ways of keeping those systems cool, the chief technology officer for Silicon Graphics says.<br>
The human touch
If human resources departments haven't always emphasized the human element of their work, traditional HR management systems have barely tried.Most legacy systems, many of them homegrown and outdated, generally support payroll processing and core functions such as benefits administration, and time and attendance.
Incoming
<b>GIG is up</b>. The Defense Department is moving forward on a major piece of its technology transformation.CIO John Stenbit said Version 1 of the Net-Centric Enterprise Services program would be deployed on Oct. 1 at the 10 sites that will begin rolling out the Global Information Grid'Bandwidth Expansion network.
Iraq team gets Groove on for collaboration
As the Coalition Provisional Authority works to rebuild the Iraqi infrastructure and establish a new government for Iraq, its members must work closely with one another, Iraqi officials and coalition partners. But doing so easily and securely has been a tall order.
State lines
<b>Web support</b>. Virginia Beach, Va., has deployed an online support channel to provide live, online assistance to visitors to its Web site, <a href= "http://www.VBgov.com">www.VBgov.com</a>.
Western Kentucky schools filter Web content
Inappropriate content such as pornography won't reach the PCs used by thousands of students in western Kentucky.Most schools in the state's Region 1 are using content-filtering appliances from St. Bernard Software Inc. to screen out content that students are prohibited from seeing by the Children's Internet Protection Act of 2000.
Prisoner transfer app relies on .Net
Corrections officials in Wisconsin counties are saving money and aggravation with software developed using Microsoft Corp.'s .Net services to monitor prisoner transfers between courts, jails and other correctional facilities.
Nebraska city Palms one off on its employees
From monitoring fauna and flora to keeping children safe, Lincoln, Neb., handles many core city functions wirelessly with handheld PCs.Four years ago, the city gave its animal control officers Palm VII handheld computers from palmOne Inc. of Milpitas, Calif. The handhelds connect to the city's IBM Corp. mainframe, which houses rabies vaccination information and tag numbers of all registered pets as well as pets with a record of vicious conduct.
@Info.Policy: DHS: no magic bullet for security
Last December, the Markle Foundation of New York advocated a trusted information network to improve our homeland security. The foundation brought together a balanced, high-level task force to prepare a report that's worth a look, at <a href= "http://www.markle.org">www.markle.org</a>.
Apple pushes feds toward broader open-source use
Apple Computer Inc. is seeking Common Criteria evaluation of Mac OS X, which could open government doors wider to open-source software.
Kansas City nuclear facility captures expert know-how
The Kansas City, Mo., plant of the National Nuclear Security Ad-ministration has been making components for national defense systems for more than half a century. But few of its original experts are still alive, and 34 percent of workers are 50 years old or older.
DHS struggles to close vulnerabilities in nation's infrastructure
The Homeland Security Department has identified 1,700 facilities across the country that pose a risk to the nation's critical infrastructure but lacks the authority to mandate companies and state and local government correct vulnerabilities, a DHS official told lawmakers yesterday.
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