GSA will develop new strategy for Advantage site
At the behest of the General Accounting Office, the General Services Administration will make the business case for its online schedule buying system. <br>
NASA sky-eye watches Iraqi smoke plumes
As media computer simulations zoom across battlefields in Iraq, NASA's Earth Observatory Natural Hazards Web site, at <i>earthobservatory.nasa.gov</i>, is showing real images of oil well fires and dust storms in southern Iraq. <br>
Bush outlines war spending plans
President Bush today will ask Congress to approve $74.7 billion in fiscal 2003 supplemental funding to pay for the war with Iraq.<br>
Uncle Sam issues data-sharing standards for medical info
The government has issued governmentwide standards for coding and sharing medical records. <br>
Dunnington replaces Holcomb as NASA CIO
NASA has tapped its deputy systems chief, Patricia L. Dunnington, to take over as chief information officer.<br>
GoBooks go to Iraq
In the harsh deserts of Iraq, temperature extremes, sandstorms and bumpy terrain can be as hazardous to IT equipment as the enemy is.<br>
Vendor: 'War runs on IT'
Zebra Technologies Corp. of Vernon Hills, Ill., makes the 2-D bar code equipment that identifies and routes Humvees, tanks and helicopters on their way to battlefields in Iraq.<br>
NMCI deployment begins at Marine Corps base
The Marine Corps today starts the transition to the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, as its base in Quantico, Va., turns over operations and maintenance of the base's PC services to EDS Corp.<br>
Court reviews GIS analysis of American Indian trust data
A geographic information system analysis is helping a federal court review data about land holdings that are at the heart of the dispute over the Interior Department's management of American Indian trusts.<br>
Leadership selected for new cybersecurity panel
Leaders have been named for the new House Homeland Security subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Science and Research and Development.<br>
Info seekers, hackers besiege government sites
War protesters and hackers are assaulting <i>.gov</i> and <i>.mil</i> Websites 'in digital retaliation' for the war in Iraq in record numbers, according to one security firm. The White House says the attacks are not unexpected.<br>
Energy's contract reforms move forward slowly, GAO says
A GAO executive says the Energy Department's contract management practices need more work.<br>
Packet Rat: The cyberrodent gets keel-hauled
'That was almost as much fun as a visit from the inspector general,' the Rat grumbled as he arrived home after a night chasing down router problems at his agency. All sweaty and crusty from creeping through wiring closets, he had only time enough to caffeineate and shower before returning to the command bunker. Dawn's early light made him squint as he entered the burrow door.
'Did you hear...'
<b>Live from Baghdad</b>. Keep up with the latest official news in Iraq via an English-language version of uruklink.net, the state-run Internet service. Besides postings about Saddam Hussein, Uruklink reports sorties by U.S. and British aircraft, headlined as 'Evil Ravens.' Oddly, it also links to WhiteHouse.gov through <a href= "http://www.iraqtv.ws">www.iraqtv.ws</a>, and the accompanying translations include anti-Saddam propaganda.
GAO says A-76 isn't working for Defense
Comptroller General David M. Walker testifies the Defense Department's acquisition and competitive sourcing practices are not cost-effective and are not meeting DOD's objectives.<br>
One for the kids
The Bethesda, Md., chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, along with a lineup of corporate sponsors, put on the ritz this month at the annual fund-raising gala for Children's Inn at NIH. The inn is a nonprofit family residence for pediatric outpatients and their families at the National Institutes of Health.
Speakers open up on open-source
Open-source software's growing impact in government got a full airing in Washington last week at a three-day conference on open-source software, aimed at e-government programs in the United States and Europe.
People on the Move
The Transportation Department has named <b>Daniel Matthews</b> its new CIO, filling a post that has been handled on an interim basis for more than two years.
DOD issues bandwidth solicitation
By mid-June, the Defense Information Systems Agency plans to award a contract for bandwidth and services to connect about 90 military sites worldwide to the Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion network.
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