White House honors NSF FastLane system
The National Science Foundation's program to electronically collect and manage research and education data recently received kudos from the White House.
Five project teams net awards for .gov efforts
Five agency IT projects took home top prizes this month in the form of Excellence.Gov awards presented by Industry Advisory Council's eGov Shared Interest Group and the CIO Council at an E-Gov conference in Washington. The winners were chosen from among 25 finalists.
People on the Move
<b>John Osterholz</b>, the Defense Department's director of architectures and operability, will retire next month. Known for his initiatives to fuse information and for spearheading the Quantum Leap experiment last summer, Osterholz will go to work for BAE Systems North America of Rockville, Md.
IRS turns up pressure on main contractor
The IRS and Computer Sciences Corp. vow that they are making painstaking progress in righting the tax agency's massive Business Systems Modernization. But the IRS also has taken a new approach to holding its Prime contractor accountable for systems delivery failures by making good on its intention to look elsewhere for work on the project.
VA scampers to stay ahead of viruses
Veterans Affairs Department networks successfully dodged the latest generation of computer worms that began crawling the Internet last month.'You do it with a lot of hard work,' chief security officer Bruce Brody said. 'A year ago we got hit pretty hard by Code Red and Nimda. We were able to avoid any disruption from MyDoom.'
Reader Survey: Navy users sound off on NMCI problems
Is the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, the Navy Department's $6.9 billion networking project, on the right track at last? Users at the ground level understand the purpose of NMCI but don't think the program is living up to its promise'at least from their point of view'and they feel left out of the configuration planning process.
Web portal, other initiatives lie ahead
The Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program office is considering several initiatives this year, including a portal that would give users access to the network over the Internet and research into Navywide application hosting at secure data centers.
NMCI leaders point to progress ...
Despite negative reviews from some of its users, the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet project has had some successes.The network went unscathed by the MSBlaster virus attack last summer, while some other government systems were affected, because the service had updated its antivirus software to spot malicious code.
Census data could change affirmative action plans
Minority workers got more computer and mathematical jobs during the 1990s, according to a preliminary analysis of Census 2000 occupational data. Women, however, saw their share of IT occupations drop.
New law will curb offshoring of federal IT work
Federal workers who face private competition from OMB Circular A-76 have one less worry: losing their jobs to foreign workers. A provision in the fiscal 2004 omnibus budget bill that President Bush signed last month bars companies that win federal jobs through A-76 competitions from shifting the work to other countries.
Space panel seeks Web input
The nine-member President's Commission on Implementation of U.S. Space Exploration Policy is collecting public comments online through a Web form. Drop-down boxes at <a href= "http://www.moontomars.org">www.moontomars.org</a> specify state, country and approximate age, with a blank to fill in occupation.
DOD pulls plug on Internet voting overseas
After initially defending its Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment against criticism that it was not secure enough, the Pentagon cancelled SERVE plans for this fall's presidential election.
DHS will be shopping at DOD's EMall
The Homeland Security Department earlier this month announced it will use a tailored version of the Defense Department's EMall portal to buy goods and services from existing DOD contracts. EMall will also carry items that can be procured through DHS contracts.
Seattle settles on Gateway PCs as its standard
Seattle has standardized on Gateway Inc. PCs after years of buying various brands.Over the past few months, the city has bought more than 9,000 Gateway machines, including 450 series notebook PCs, E-4100 series desktop PCs, RAID 5 array servers and tablet PCs, all running Microsoft Windows XP.
EDS halts all HITS transition work for HUD
EDS Corp. will suspend new transition work on the $860 million HUD Information Technology Services contract as a result of court-ordered negotiations earlier this month with incumbent contractor Lockheed Martin Corp.
Day care info mistakenly posted on Web
A database project turned into a privacy nightmare this month for Livingston County, N.Y.Personal records from the county's day care database'hundreds of names, addresses and confidential information about low-income and foster families'remained online for about two weeks. They included details about families' daily routines, birthdays and which days a family member attends a treatment program.
DHS unveils its top eight 2004 IT priorities
The Homeland Security Department's IT team earlier this month identified eight priorities for their 2004 to-do list. DHS chief technology officer Lee Holcomb said'at a meeting sponsored by the Washington Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association'that department brass must still bless the list but he expects few changes.
USDA brews up plan for coffee trade e-receipts
The Agriculture Department has OK'd the use of electronic warehouse receipts for coffee trades.James Little, Farm Service Agency administrator, earlier this month announced the use of the Electronic Commodity Operations and Processing System, or eCOPS.
Davis: Use Ed. rules to spot bogus degrees
Rep. Tom Davis thinks the government should consider using the Education Department's criteria for determining a school's eligibility for federal financial aid to spot employees using degrees from unaccredited educational schools.
On-the-fly systems pass first real test in Senate
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee press secretary Andrea Hofelich grabbed a handful of folders, her cell phone and her BlackBerry before hurrying out of her office in the Russell Senate Office Building.
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