COOP: Cover your IT bases
Disaster recovery guidance is often vague. The technology needed for continuity is not.
Cities make financial sense of WiFi projects
Municipalities try to build their business plans around wireless access.
Gen 2: Sowing UHF Tags Worldwide
In December 2004, EPC Global, the association that sets standards for bar codes and RFID tags, issued its second-generation UHF standard, Class 1 Gen 2.
RFID technologies duke it out
UHF has a greater reach, but HF has better defense. Which one do you put your money on?
Apps are put to the test
The InterOperability Lab at the University of New Hampshire holds the biggest-ever test of applications on Moonv6, a global IPv6 network.
The software question
Don't let applications be the missing link in your agency's successful move to IPv6.
Special Report | NIST's goal: Keep digital evidence fresh
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are known for sweating the nitty-gritty details of dull but vital standards for everything from bulletproof vests to medical measurement devices and IT encryption. And now, agency experts are bringing the same precision to computer forensics, fully aware that the final say lies in the notoriously low-tech realm of the judicial system.
From point A to Z'and back again
Today's business process management software streamlines both human and system interactions.
Joanne Woytek | Staying on course with SEWP
Joanne Woytek is the program manager for NASA's Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement govenrmentwide acquisition contract'one of only four true GWACs authorized by the Office of Management and Budget.
The science of SEWP
Federal IT purchasing contracts, like taxes, are a necessary evil not normally the object of rapturous elegies by their users. Which is why the near-total admiration expressed by a sampling of people who use the governmentwide acquisition contract run by NASA invites skepticism.
Fail safe
Disaster recovery had been a low priority for many agencies until terrorist attacks, anthrax mailings and hurricanes progressively jolted them out of complacency.
DHS Special Report | FEMA maps out a better response
While withstanding a storm of criticism for its response to recent large-scale natural disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has continued to make substantial investments in its geospatial and flood-mapping operations. In the long term, geospatial technology should help FEMA become more effective in its core missions of disaster response and hazard mitigation, officials said.
Seeing eye to eye
The Environmental Protection Agency's decision three years ago to outfit its Emergency Operations Center in Washington with a custom suite of rooms wired with videoconferencing systems from Tandberg of New York paid off when Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast last August.
HUD's team effort
In its Vision 2010 document released in February, the Housing and Urban Development Department laid out its modernization strategy around its core lines of business. To get there in about four years, the department will rely on portfolio and project management'the basic tenets of any large system modernization effort.
Agencies chip away at BSMs
GAO has for years critiqued the efforts of federal agencies to modernize their business processes and the IT that drives them. A report released earlier this year highlighted a continuing lack of discipline on processes including requirements management, testing, data conversion, system interfaces, and risk and project management.
Victor Powers | In RFQs, keep all vendors in play
In a GCN interview, program manager Victor Powers explains the advantages of buying from ECS III and what is being done to streamline ordering while meeting increasingly stringent strict performance requirements of OMB.
Cart blanche
The National Institute of Health's Electronic Commodities Store, run by the agency's IT Acquisition and Assessment Center, backs its hardware products with customer service that has gained a reputation for quality.
In the know'knowledge management software
After years of indifference, the post-9/11 federal government is embracing knowledge management. It might be hard to categorize, but you'll know the benefits of KM when you see them'including the ability to help work across agency lines, measure performance and meet regulatory requirements.
The great VPN debate
The saga of the Labor Department's attempt to outfit Mine Safety and Health Administration employees with remote access through virtual private networks serves as a minihistory of the technology.
RFP checklist: Security information management
Looking to deploy a security information management solution? Before sending out an RFP or RFI, experts say you should consider the following.
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