Tools to put the wheels on EA
There are plenty of good reasons to map out an enterprise architecture. Enterprise architecture models'and the tools that create them'can take the sting out of integrating agency functions, launching new initiatives, or just optimizing existing functions and IT investments. Even so, there's really only one reason why enterprise architecture is so popular in government these days'it's mandatory.
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<b>New command</b>. To speed technology into the hands of soldiers, the Army has established the Research, Development and Engineering Command, a new subordinate organization within the Army Materiel Command.
Air Force shoots for enterprise architecture
'Architecture is a journey, not a destination.'Air Force officials say this slogan explains both the process and the progress of an Air Force initiative to integrate its manned and unmanned air, space and ground systems into a single enterprise.
Help desk suite speeds response
UniPress Software Inc. credits its General Services Administration schedule with a 20 percent increase in public-sector sales of its FootPrints Web-based help desk system since 2001.
PeopleSoft portal has single sign-on access
A new release of the PeopleSoft Government Portal suite is entirely Web-based, letting users plug directly into internal applications after a single sign-on.
SAN switches add ports on demand
The 24-port Sphereon 4500 from McData Inc. of Broomfield, Colo., is the first Fibre Channel switch to provide connectivity on demand, senior product manager Mike Tomky said. Users can add more ports on a pay-as-you-go basis. The Sphereon 4500's Flexport technology scales from eight to 24 2-Gbps ports and is compatible with both switched and Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop interfaces, Tomky said.
@Info.Policy: Scrub-a-dub isn't always smart Web policy
There are many reasons to remove information from an agency Web site. Data becomes obsolete. An office moves to a new home. Political winds blow in new directions, and an agency that was pro-gizmo is now anti-gizmo. A new view of security leads to a reassessment of disclosure policy.
High-end system buys boost labs
The feds don't like coming in second. A year after Japan's Earth Simulator became the world's fastest supercomputer, U.S. agencies told how they will retake the lead.
Civil law might beat criminal law at protecting IT
Criminal prosecution of computer crime has expanded over the past two decades, but civil law holds more promise, some experts said at a recent Federal Information Assurance Conference at the University of Maryland.
GSM wireless phone can safeguard top secrets
General Dynamics Corp.'s TalkSecure cell phone for Global System for Mobile wireless networks can talk with the company's Sectera wireless phones, including Type 1 units cleared for classified traffic.
OMB's e-government report due in two weeks
The Office of Management and Budget will release the latest version of its e-government strategy report April 17.<br>
Cyber Eye: Consider thanking hackers for security
In February, the FBI's National Infrastruc-ture Protection Center warned would-be vigilantes that Uncle Sam did not want their help in a cyberwar against Iraq. 'The U.S. government does not condone so-called 'patriotic hacking' on its behalf,' NIPC advised.
OMB official cites progress on e-gov business cases
Agencies have made progress in developing e-government business cases, but an Office of Management and Budget official said today that there is still room for improvement.<br>
Healthy Records
The Veteran Affairs and Defense departments have mapped out a new route to interoperable health databases and applications, more than five years after they first conceived the plan.
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By the numbers
Petroleum is the lifeblood of the world economy and a key factor in national security policy.
Another View: Navy's network services buy pays off
A few years ago, network security meant warding off a few viruses and hackers. In al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan, however, our forces found computers containing information on U.S. water systems. As tensions with Iraq rose, so did the threat of cyberattacks. And in 2002, the Federal Computer Incident Response Center tallied 489,912 security incidents, ranging from reconnaissance to denial of services.
Data headaches
I have to agree with some of those pesky senators. The administration's plan for the so-called Terrorism Threat Integration Center seems half-baked, especially with the CIA as the planned host.
Major programs within Houston e-gov
<b>Voice over IP telephony</b>. The city plans to develop an IP telephony system that digitizes a user's voice and assembles the digital data into discrete voice packets for transport across Houston's data network. It will converge data, voice and video onto a single network.
Best is yet to come for Houston e-gov
Although Houston had some memorable moments in the last century'does July 20, 1969, ring a bell?'its best times lie ahead, Houston CIO Richard Lewis said.
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