Homeland Security will consolidate software licenses
The new Homeland Security Department will consolidate all its component agencies' software licenses 'for the greater good,' looking first at large contracts, Secret Service assistant director Steve Colo said today.<br>
Cybercontrol demands intelligence
Brian Kelly is in the alarm business. The retired Air Force lieutenant colonel joined iDefense Inc. of Chantilly, Va., as president and chief operating officer early last year, in the midst of a spurt of Internet mischief involving the notorious Code Red and Nimda worms.
Police can't access terrorist watch lists
Local and state police 'operate in a virtual intelligence vacuum' without access to State Department terrorist watch lists, according to a report last month from the Council on Foreign Relations Inc. of New York.
CA: Security monitoring swamps data centers
Firewalls, filters and intrusion detection systems have proliferated so much that data center managers are inundated by terabytes of security reports, Computer Associates International Inc.'s Ron Moritz said today. <br>
GIS interface will help agencies build out 'spatial Web'
Government and industry members of the OpenGIS Consortium Inc. have forged a fast-track interoperability consensus that culminated recently in live international Web mapping via the OGC Web Services 1.2 interface. <br>
Flyzik: 'Yes!' on Homeland Security Department
Jubilant homeland security adviser James Flyzik told the audience at a breakfast meeting of the Armed Forces Electronics and Communications Association this morning that 'I just can't help but say 'Yes!' ' on the recent passage of the Homeland Security Department. <br>
Commission calls for integrating civilian, military air traffic management
The final report of the Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry, which Vice President Dick Cheney will accept tomorrow, urges the government to integrate its communications, navigation and surveillance infrastructures.
Ballmer vows 'an entirely new Microsoft'
Microsoft Corp. chief executive officer Steve Ballmer yesterday called the company's antitrust settlement with the Justice Department 'tough but fair' and said it will lead to 'an entirely new Microsoft.' In the third e-mail letter of a widely distributed series from himself and chairman Bill Gates, Ballmer promised hardware vendors 'a transparent and uniform price list' for Windows operating systems . <br>
Tablet PCs inaugurate new apps
New tablet PCs coming out tomorrow have built-in handwriting recognition and new applications such as document readers for online publications.
Tablet PCs: Notebooks with a twist
This week's introduction of tablet PCs from 23 vendors will bring new makers and striking new designs into the notebook PC market.
TranStats hits the road
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics' new TranStats database portal, launched last month at <i>www.transtats.bts.gov</i>, came along after the Office of Management and Budget had chosen its 25 e-government initiatives, but TranStats has Quicksilver-like goals. <br>
GAO names winners, losers in performance-based contracting
Agencies spent $28.6 billion last fiscal year on performance-based service contracting'a money-saving trend since the early 1990s, the General Accounting Office said today in a report to the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement Policy. The total represents 21 percent of the $135.8 billion agencies spent on services. <br>
Adobe e-forms will hold data offline
Adobe Systems Inc. today extended its electronic forms line with Document Server for Reader Extensions. The server software will preserve data entered in form fields in Adobe Portable Document Format, so that citizens and agency users can continue working on the PDF forms offline. That eliminates the print-and-mail steps that are holding up progress of the Government Paperwork Elimination Act, Adobe officials said.<br>
Satellites draw a bead on trouble
The Earth Observatory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., daily pinpoints global hazards such as wildfires, volcano eruptions and large-scale storms on a world map, which is posted at <a href= "http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards">earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards</a>.
HSD agencies will share airport telecom networks
The Office of Management and Budget yesterday said that component agencies for the proposed Homeland Security Department have been testing ways to share their IT infrastructures to communicate threat information better to security screeners at more than 100 airports.
Postal Service needs to manage IT portfolio, GAO says
A General Accounting Office report released yesterday said the Postal Service invests hundreds of millions of dollars on IT each year but is not managing the investments. 'We know that the Postal Service is in desperate financial straits. ' Every dollar, every asset counts,' said Senate Governmental Affairs Committee chairman Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.), who requested the audit along with ranking minority member Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.).
Microsoft readies XDocs for XML
Microsoft Corp. next year will release an Extensible Markup Language component called XDocs for its market-leading Office suite. XDocs will have an Office-like interface and will integrate with Web services, a main focus of the Office of Management and Budget's enterprise architecture push. XDocs will support any customer-defined XML schema, according to Microsoft.
Nationwide geographic data debuts on DVD
Geological Survey computer scientist E.J. 'Jerry' McFaul, long known as 'Mr. CD,' said today that the brand-new LandView 5 database on DVD gives emergency responders and planners a spatial reference for all potential U.S. targets.
Microsoft wants to raise public trust in software
Acknowledging that Microsoft Corp. products have 'too many vulnerabilities,' vice president Mike Nash said software must achieve 'the same level of trust as a public utility.'
NASA spots Earth's trouble spots
The Earth Observatory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., daily pinpoints global hazards such as wildfires, volcano eruptions and large-scale storms on a world map, which is posted <a href="http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards">here</a>.
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