Excellence pays off for DOD contracting officers
Two Defense contracting officers are the 2003 winners of $5,000 acquisition excellence awards.<br>
Army network center moves east
A unit of the recently created Army Network Enterprise Technology Command is moving from Fort Huachuca, Ariz., to Fort Belvoir, Va.<br>
'Every veteran has his or her own war'
In honor of Memorial Day next Monday, the Library of Congress has posted the digitized memories of 10 U.S. veterans on the American Folklife Center site.<br>
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<b>17 Census Bureau Annual IT Security Day 2003</b><br>Suitland, Md. Contact the Federal Business Council Inc.; Web: <a href= "http://www.fbcinc.com/search_results5.php">www.fbcinc.com/search_results5.php</a>.<br>
Federal Contract Law: Judging past performance can be vexing
Since 1997, acquisition regulations have required agencies to include past performance as a specific evaluation factor in competitive awards. Ensuring the integrity and accuracy of past performance information is a joint responsibility of contractors and agency acquisition officials. When either fails to shoulder its share of this burden, the award decision is questionable, and often questioned.
GSA chooses Web, XML access to data
The cost of reporting data to the Federal Procurement Data Center this fall will drop to less than $1 per transaction from a current average of $32.
The replacements: killer notebooks for the desk
Replacing your desktop PC with a high-end notebook system no longer means a step down in performance'as long as you choose the right notebook PC with the right chip.
Study finds local governments have static Web presence
Most local governments have Web sites, but they are mostly passive brochure-ware with very little in the way of transactions.<br>
The lowdown on handhelds
<b>What's new?</b> The trend in handheld computing is firmly toward color and communications. Palm Inc.'s newest devices are full-color'one features a built-in camera, the other IEEE 802.11b networking. Many Pocket PC devices available today can add WiFi communications using a CompactFlash card.
Handhelds target the next level
In an eerie continuation of a Dickens parody, last year was another 'best of times, worst of times' for handheld computing. Better times may or may not be in store this year, but better products almost certainly are.
Network-centric operations score big in Iraq, DOD's Frankel says
Network-centric military operations have moved from the concept stage into reality, a Defense Department executive said recently.
Intelligence analysts strive to share data
The volume of foreign intelligence information the CIA collects each day in Iraq and other hot spots around the globe pits the agency against a mountain of data.
EPA chief Whitman resigns
EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman, who pushed a sophisticated IT agenda, is stepping down.<br>
Solid state speeds IT storage access
A solid-state storage system for up to 1 million input-output operations per second can serve grid computing, online transaction processing and other high-throughput tasks.
Power User: Big screen makes Tablet PC an on-the-go asset
I enthused about the early personal digital assistants, even boasting about writing a couple of GCN articles on my Handspring Visor.
Navy portal aims to host 3,000 apps
The Navy Enterprise Portal has launched about 100 online applications through a common, secure Web portal.
Internaut: E-gov sites deliver the data
Cross-agency cooperation is a crucial component of every data sharing project, from Extensible Markup Language tagging to joint application use.
Risk assessment tool is free to feds
Government IT administrators can get a year's almost-free use of the Cost of Risk Assessment tool from International Security Technology Inc.
Boyd takes over Safecom Project
The Homeland Security Department named David Boyd as the new project manager for Project Safecom.<br>
IBM starts up new line of PCs
Taking its longtime NetVista desktop line a step further, IBM Corp. announced this evening a string of redesigned PCs.<br>
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