NIEM releases first draft of info-sharing specs
By encoding their information within a standardized set of metadata, agencies could make their resources more easily accessible to other agencies.
NARA submits Records Management Profile
The National Archives and Records Administration has finished its draft of the Records Management Profile and submitted it for possible inclusion in the Federal Enterprise Architecture framework.
Stanford grabs DARPA Grand Challenge purse
Stanford University has claimed the $2 million prize for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Grand Challenge autonomous vehicle race.
Sun to discontinue Trusted Solaris
Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to phase out its Trusted Solaris secure operating system and replace it with security extension software that can be used with its Open Solaris operating system.
GCN INSIDER: Trends and technologies that affect the way government does IT
The latest buzz in the Web development world is AJAX, an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (XML itself is short for Extensible Markup Language).
Speaking in Tongues
"Instead of managing code, in the future we'll be managing business processes,' promised Chris Fornecker, chief technology officer of the General Services Administration.
High-speed process
The job? Assemble the world's most powerful computer. Deadline: 120 days.'A miracle a day' was the slogan for the team of NASA employees and supporting contractors who completed a task deemed essential to NASA's continued well-being.
NASA's Ames Research Center to work with Google
The NASA Ames Research Center will open some space in its research park for Silicon Valley neighbor Google Inc. to help the parties collaborate on high-performance computing research.
SE Linux embarks on Common Criteria testing
With the evaluation in place, this version of Linux could offer another trusted operating system for handling sensitive information.
AIIM sharpens focus on data sharing standards
AIIM International has started a working group to develop standards for tying together enterprise content management systems.
Federal XML group updates guidelines
Three years is a long time in the field of information management.
XML group updating federal design guidebook
The General Services Administration, the Homeland Security Department and the Federal CIO Council are collectively revamping a widely used federal guide for creating Extensible Markup Language-based schemas. Wednesday will be the last chance for agencies to influence at least the first draft of this document.
GCN INSIDER: Big fish, little fish; Beauty and the beast; Peanut butter, meet chocolate
Why one IT company buys another is always a mystery, at least at first.
Bob Schumm | An insider's thoughts on SOA
Just what the heck is a service-oriented architecture anyway? One of the biggest IT buzzwords today, SOA nonetheless suffers from a lack of formal definition.
SNIA rolls out storage interoperability specs
The Storage Networking Industry Association has unveiled a new version of its Storage Management Initiative Specification that could help administrators get a better handle on their storage resources.
The Podcast Toolbox
If you're prepared to start adding podcasts to your agency's communications programs, there's plenty of software available.
Is this thing on? (tap, tap)
It started as a hobbyist technology and recently found a foothold at forward-thinking federal agencies.
USPS taps EMC for storage consolidation effort
The U.S. Postal Service has purchased $30 million of equipment, software and services from EMC Corp. as part of a new initiative to streamline the agency's storage management.
Science project
When you were a kid, did you work through the projects in books such as The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments or Fun with Electronics: Build 25 Amazing Electronic Projects!?
Yahoo Konfabulator
Even though it is called a 'desktop,' the backdrop display on your PC certainly doesn't have very many of the handy tools usually found on top of your actual desk.
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