Agencies flirt with autonomic computing
Although vendors and standards bodies have released autonomic computing tools, agencies still are testing the technology and experts predict mainstream use to be five years out. <br>
Macromedia introduces new government-friendly packages
Macromedia Inc. rolls out three new suites specifically for government users.
Spectrum auctions could fund educational IT
Up to $5.4 billion in proceeds from the Federal Communications Commission's future sales of electromagnetic spectrum could go into digital outreach under a bill sponsored by Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.). <br>
DHS Starlight award goes to CSC
Computer Sciences Corp. has won an $88 million task order to support homeland security border operations.
OMB considers NIAP for software certifications
The software certification role of National Information Assurance Partnership might expand from defense and national security agencies to all federal agencies, a White House official tells Congress.<br>
NASA awards three IT contracts
NASA has awarded three large contracts for systems management and IT work.<br>
NSF commissions $11 million weather prediction grid
The National Science Foundation has awarded $11.25 million to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to build a grid network to help study and predict dangerous weather.<br>
SCO to government Linux users: Pay up
The SCO Group Inc. announced in a new licensing program that it wants government agencies to pay up to $699 for each copy of the Linux operating system they use. Users are skeptical in light of current litigation.
DHS warns of possible cyberattack
The Homeland Security Department this week warned that a vulnerability of some Microsoft Windows operating systems may be used as a basis of wide-scale cyberattacks. <br>
Air Force awards ManTech $6.8 million contract
The Air Force has awarded ManTech International Corp. of Fairfax, Va., a $6.8 million contract to support space control operations, the company announced this week. <br>
GAO defines enterprise architecture benchmarks
Responding to agency requests, the General Accounting Office has updated its guide on enterprise architectures with expanded metrics to measure how well an agency succeeds in implementation.<br>
NIST starts security certification program
Ron Ross, former head of the National Information Assurance Partnership, has started a new office that will develop standards for certifying that new agency systems are secure. <br>
GSA, DOD sign on to Liberty Alliance
The Department of Defense and the General Services Administration have joined Liberty Alliance, a network identity standards group.<br>
IT takes biggest piece of NSF budget
Information technology takes up the largest share of all research to be funded by the National Science Foundation in its proposed 2004 budget of $5.5 billion.<br>
IBM pushes Web services to mainstream
The government's installation of application servers is helping push Web services into the mainstream, IBM's director of Web services technology says.
Arctic center awards $16.4m supercomputing contract
The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center has awarded Cray Inc. of Seattle a $16.4 million contract to provide a supercomputer system and support to the center, which is part of the Defense Department's High Performance Computing Modernization Center and the University of Alaska. <br>
NIH opens Electronic Commodity Store to 66
The National Institutes of Health's Electronic Commodity Store contract has been opened to 66 companies.<br>
Vendors repurpose products for homeland security
CRM software for terrorist tracking? The idea seems odd, but Siebel Systems Inc. spent months customizing its customer relationship management tools to make tracking Osama bin Laden's minions seem as simple as handling a customer call.
HOW WE'VE CHANGED/TECHNOLOGY: IT takes the point on security
An unintended but positive effect of Sept. 11 has been a higher priority for IT budget proposals, said <b>Linda Massaro</b>, former CIO at the National Science Foundation. The general responsiveness to requests for improving technology seems to have changed. There is a much more positive view that we aren't just the systems geeks in the basement,' Massaro said.
White House's IT strategy emphasizes info sharing; pilot projects named
Information sharing and data mining will be integral IT components of the White House's newly released national strategy for homeland security, said Steve Cooper, CIO of the Homeland Security Office, during a July 16 administration briefing. Cooper also said three new pilot projects have already been identified by the office to ramp up new technologies.
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