Feds must weigh worth of vendors' CMM claims
Agencies often rely on Capability Maturity Model ratings touted by vendors when deciding whether to hire them for software development jobs. But are the rating claims made by many vendors legit? Maybe, maybe not.
Texas jump-starts public and private connectivity
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Texas Health Department this week issued the first statewide alert over the Texas Health Alert Network, about the spreading West Nile virus. The HAN so far has provided 64 health departments with Internet connectivity, some of them for the first time.
FAA trains 3,000 in process appraisal
The Federal Aviation Administration, whose air traffic systems development history is among the most troubled in government, has created a custom version of the Capability Maturity Model to assess the quality of its software acquisition and development processes'the only agency ever to do so.
NIST: Wireless opens a port in the parking lot
Days after Defense Department CIO John P. Stenbit warned against using wireless devices inside DOD buildings, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a draft report calling wireless connectivity 'the logical equivalent of placing an Ethernet port in the parking lot.'
ADA celebrates 12th birthday with civic compliance
On this day 12 years ago, the Americans with Disabilities Act mandated equal access to public facilities for disabled persons. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998 extended equal access to public information and electronic systems, and many agencies met the accessibility deadline a year ago.
Prices steady for new PCs
After a withering industry downturn, PC makers are innovating with caution.
Microsoft's February stand-down cost $100 million
An inaugural security newsletter e-mailed today by Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates said the company's February work halt to study Windows' security took almost two months and cost more than $100 million. Gates said every Windows software engineer received special security training during the stand-down. Microsoft Office and Visual Studio .Net developers will undergo similar security training, he said.
GSA sets road map for authentication gateway
In about a year's time, a citizen or government user will sign on just once at the FirstGov portal to conduct many types of online transactions with different agencies.
C2 software peers into the future
A draft plan for network-centric warfare calls for the military services to adopt peer-to-peer computing, which would profoundly alter the existing hierarchy of command and control.
House makes resolutions in XML
The House of Representatives is pioneering its shift to Extensible Markup Language with simple resolutions, which started in January.
Giuliani lauds IT's role in management, endorses national IDs
Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani called technology 'a real help' in reducing crime. He said his administration's daily collection of statistics about crime, health and welfare led to cutting the number of welfare recipients from 1.1 million (out of 8 million residents) down to about 650,000 and the number of prisoners in jails from 14,000 down to about 11,000.
How a tiny label controls a tank
Contrary to rumor, the government is an excellent customer that pays its bills on time, Timothy M. McGilloway says.
Patterned on Ridge's Pennsylvania efforts?
As governor of Pennsylvania, federal homeland security director Tom Ridge oversaw an effort not dissimilar to the systems mandate proposed for the would-be Homeland Security Department.
At its core, a systems shake-up
Seat management and outsourcing are emerging as the keys to transforming the systems of seven dissimilar agencies into the enterprise architecture envisioned by President Bush for his proposed Homeland Security Department.
Data Cubes
Steve Schreiner compares his data marts to Rubik's cubes. The Veteran Affairs Department computer specialist says their intersecting cells can mix and match data about almost everything in the VA Northwest Health Network, from lab reports to medications to finances.
New Micron PC sports 2.53-GHz chip, fast USB
The recently released 2.53-GHz Pentium 4 processor powers an updated line of ClientPro managed systems from MicronPC LLC, but the Nampa, Idaho, maker won't unveil a new chassis design until fall.
Showdown: data sharing vs. privacy
How can agencies share their information while keeping control of it?
U.S. is still third in international e-gov rankings
The third annual global ranking of e-government initiatives by Accenture LLP of Chicago leaves the top three nations unchanged from last year: Canada, Singapore and then the United States.
App filters out classified e-mail
Classified information embedded accidentally'or intentionally'in e-mail used to be an everyday headache at the Office of the Defense Undersecretary for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.
U.S. still No. 3 in e-gov
The third annual worldwide ranking of e-government initiatives by Accenture LLP of Chicago leaves the Top 3 unchanged from last year: Canada and Singapore, followed by the United States [see story at <a href="http://gcn.com/vol20_no8/inbrief/3972-1.html"> gcn.com/vol20_no8/inbrief/3972-1.html</a> ].
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