FDA seeks data-mining tools
The Food and Drug Administration has signed a two-year cooperative R&D agreement with Lincoln Technologies Inc. of Wellesley Hills, Mass., to develop new data-mining techniques for the agency's Adverse Events Reporting System. <br>
EPA preps $650 million environmental IT contract
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to release a request for proposals May 8 for a successor to its Mission Oriented Systems Engineering Support II contract. The new contract will run for up to nine years with a $650 million ceiling.<br>
DOD's financial architecture gets a new name
The Defense Department's Financial Management Modernization Program office is now the Business Management Modernization Program office to better reflect what it does.
Bell tolls for state e-gov department
Wisconsin's legislature this week gave preliminary approval to Gov. Jim Doyle's proposal to close down the state's 2-year-old Electronic Government Department. <br>
OMB will spend $500,000 on the next wave of e-gov
The Office of Management and Budget will allocate $500,000 of its $5 million e-government fund to hire a contractor to assess cross-agency collaboration and consolidation in six government lines of business.<br>
Outlook 2003 beta deletes e-mail on systems running Outlook 2002
A bug lives on in the latest beta version of Microsoft Outlook 2003, despite two widely publicized fixes. The Inbox bug deletes e-mail messages throughout networked systems that still have Outlook 2002. <br>
Packet Rat: The Rat draws a line in the sand
When last heard from, the Rat was flirting with the idea of applying for an IT position with the transitional Iraq government. Then he was stirred from restless sleep by a phone call telling him to pack a bag.
Netcentricity takes center stage
The Defense Department's plans for network-centric battle got the four-star treatment last month during a two-day conference, Net-centric Operations 2003, in Vienna, Va.
People on the Move
White House cybersecurity adviser <b>Howard Schmidt</b> is resigning, leaving the administration with no IT security chief at a time when the public and private sectors are struggling to make cyberspace a safer place.
House committee approves nanotechnology funding
The House Science Committee has approved a bill establishing a National Nanotechnology Research and Development Program, authorizing $2.4 billion over the next three years.
Processing: 64-bit computing ramps up
Suddenly, everything about 64-bit computing is new again.In some form, 64-bit processors designed for proprietary operating systems have been in data centers for years. But the recent debut of the Opteron microprocessor chip from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., to be followed this summer by an upgraded Itanium 2 from Intel Corp., promises to ratchet up the pressure to switch enterprise applications away from the 32-bit track. That's because devices priced in the PC server range will have 64-bit capability.
Storage: the shrinking form factor
Data storage will always be the bedrock of IT systems. That's why it's the object of such continuous and intense research and development.
Communications: It's all wireless
Predictions about the future of communications conjure up different technologies that all have one thing in common: They're wireless.
E-learning lightens workload for Treasury agency
A new e-learning portal developed by the Treasury Department's Financial Management Service allows employees to find and register for finance-related classes.<br>
Security: Biometrics gains a foothold
If you want to see the near future of biometric security control, look at the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) in Seaside, Calif.
Air Force working to connect sensors
In June, the Air Force will roll out a prototype enterprise architecture for its Command and Control Constellation that will set goals for connecting land, platform and space-based sensors and using common standards to relay information.<br>
Applications: XML, Web services pave the way
Computer applications express agencies' missions as code. Missions stem from a blend of policy and the management of implementing policy.
Aggregating data helps, but raises privacy concerns
Data mining is one way homeland security analysts can generate aggregate data sets. But cultural practices have not kept up with technology.
Agencies must dine on alphabet soup
Like laborers on the tower of Babel, state and federal IT officials are frustrated in their efforts to share information for homeland security purposes, in part because they speak different languages.
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