Agencies hesitate to fund e-gov
Agencies are balking at contributing funds to the 25 Quicksilver projects, forcing many of the e-government efforts to fall behind schedule.
Five e-gov winners
Five agency e-government projects this month received best-in-show recognition out of 25 finalists for the Excellence.Gov awards sponsored by the CIO Council, the Industry Advisory Council and E-Gov at the Web-Enabled Conference in Washington.
NIST: Put faces and fingerprints on visas for ID
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is recommending a dual biometric system of fingerprint and facial recognition, possibly stored on smart cards, to identify visa holders at the nation's borders.
Coast Guard's Deepwater is afloat, GAO says
Coast Guard acquisition planning for the decades-long, $17 billion Integrated Deepwater System procurement of cutters and aircraft 'was among the best of the federal agencies we have evaluated,' the General Accounting Office's JayEtta Z. Hecker told a Senate subcommittee earlier this month.
Red Hat Linux Advanced now a COE kernel
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server has become the first Linux platform to achieve certification for the Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment.
IT tools aid in the Columbia investigation
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board, which is probing the Feb. 1 shuttle crash, is making use of several new systems to help it pinpoint the cause of the mishap, its leadership said. Board chairman Hal Gehman said at a press conference that 'we have launched seven different products,' which he declined to name.
Health care database runs on tablet PCs
A health care database management system has made its way onto tablet PCs for hospital employees.
Commerce may merge telecom, tech bureaus
Secretary of Commerce Don Evans is proposing that Congress consolidate the bureaus within the department responsible for technology and telecommunications policy.
DOD's grand plan
Place: The outskirts of Baghdad.Time: The near future.Scene: U.S. and allied ground forces have encircled the city and are preparing to advance on Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard. Data flowing from Global Positioning System receivers, surveillance systems, satellite communications and other systems has helped military commanders set the stage for an attack.
'Naked' federal sites are open to attack
Federal Web servers are broadcasting critical security data about themselves. Many sites fail to cover up their operating systems and the precise Web server software versions installed, so the information is remarkably easy to find.
Administration tunes plan for cybersecurity
The White House beefed up its demands on agencies in the final version of the cybersecurity protection strategy it released this month.
Quantico hooks up to NMCI
The Quantico Marine Corps Base has become the first to begin the transition to the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.<br>
XACML standard controls Web services access
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards has approved the Extensible Access Control Markup Language specification for Web services and documents.<br>
DOD cites progress on agenda items
The Defense Department has improved its scorecard rating in two of five initiatives laid out in the President's Management Agenda
OMB reads business cases for next wave of e-gov
The Office of Management and Budget is lining up support from the top for its next wave of e-government projects. Officials said they will brief the President's Management Council with plans to address six areas of redundancy. <br>
Illinois becomes first in line to join the Federal Bridge
Illinois is preparing to become the first state to join the Federal Bridge Certification Authority and make its digital certificates interoperable with those of four federal agencies.<br>
Labor launches E-Gov plan
The Labor Department's strategic plan for electronic government, released yesterday, links with the administration's management agenda and chiefly includes existing electronic government initiatives or IT management steps required by law.<br>
AIX 5L dynamically reallocates CPUs
IBM Corp.'s Version 5.2 of AIX 5L can handle multiple tasks by separating large systems onto smaller virtual servers.
Visual area networking lets users collaborate
SGI's new OpenGL Vizserver 3.0 software works with high-performance computers and fast networks to let collaborators engage in something SGI calls visual area networking.
Two-way Dell server ready for Gigabit Ethernet
The two-way PowerEdge 1600SC server from Dell Computer Corp. can handle Gigabit Ethernet connections and almost half a terabyte of storage.
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