Broadband lines approach 20 million mark
Pace of high-speed connections to the Internet remains steady, FCC reports.<br>
NMCI chiefs say the project is looking up
Prime contractor EDS is unequivocally committed to seeing the seven-year Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program to completion, a key executive says.<br>
Data miners
Agencies in the homeland defense era are turning to business intelligence tools to mine and tag nebulous data, drill down to details and spot unsuspected relationships.
Editorial Cartoon
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Significa
Summer is for tall cold drinks and paperbacks on the beach. Out West, it is also the season for forest fires. California officials are saying late spring rains delayed the fire season, but grass is drying out and the number of fires is rising. The fire season usually lasts until October, the California Forestry and Fire Protection Department (CDF) said.
Letters to the Editor
I was dismayed at the apparent lack of insight, understanding and thoughtfulness in the editorial 'NMCI redux'. Although the government would love to see EDS Corp. earn a profit on the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, the government also expects the contractor to deliver a fully functional, integrated system for the amount bid so that the infrastructure of the Navy can continue to support the fleet.
Vendor eat vendor
With a bold, though rejected, takeover bid this month, the wily Larry Ellison threw the world of big software vendors into turmoil.
When or will e-government apps pay off?
Some speakers at a Washington seminar aren't so sure of the payoff of e-government projects. Said a former OMB official: "It's a slippery slope to say e-government is going to decrease costs."
OMB developing rules for IT privacy assessments
By late summer, the Office of Management and Budget plans to issue privacy regulations that most likely will affect only new systems.<br>
Major programs within CDC
<b>National Electronic Disease Surveillance System</b>. CDC is working with state and local health agencies to improve its IT systems. The long-term goal is a system that automatically gathers health data from a variety of sources on a real-time basis, monitors community health, analyzes trends, detects emerging problems and provides information for setting public health policy. CDC will try to ensure that new state information systems will communicate with each other securely and reliably.
Systems on front line against SARS
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention opened an emergency operations center in Atlanta in March, few in America had heard of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
WorldCom can make a comeback
Jerry Edgerton, senior vice president of government markets for WorldCom Inc., began his telecommunications career with one of that company's forerunners, MCI Communications Corp.
AT&T goes after abandoned Web-hosting market
Sprint Corp. is getting out of the Web-hosting business and AT&T Corp. wants to bring displaced federal and commercial customers to its data centers.<br>
State lines
<b>Manhunt</b>. Sheriff's deputies in St. Martin Parish, La., used composite imaging technology to identify Derrick Todd Lee, the prime suspect in the rape and murder of five women in south Louisiana. Lee was arrested May 27 in Atlanta.
911 centers: Priority calls are for you
Although the 7,500 local dispatchers who handle emergency 911 calls across the nation are eligible to participate in the Telecommunications Service Priority program, only about 10 percent do.
Amber alerts will go to the Web
Washington state is leading the charge to find and rescue abducted children. Through a public-private partnership, Washington is working with Oregon, Idaho, British Columbia and a nonprofit group to move Amber alerts from solely broadcast media to the Web to publicize missing children.
Retiree is nominated for Army post
The president has nominated retired Army Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker to be the next Army chief of staff. <br>
AFFIRM recognizes IT leaders
The Association for Federal Information Resources Management awarded Mark Forman, the Office of Management and Budget's administrator for e-government and IT, its 24th annual Executive Leadership Award.<br>
TSP retirement system in action
A new computer system for managing the government's retirement system went live at noon.<br>
Navajo hospital speeds data searches
Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, N.M. has created Web-ready data applications for hospitals run by the federal Indian Health Service.<br>
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