XML consolidates government, McDonough says
The Extensible Markup Language has become a universal format, wrote Francis A. McDonough, deputy associate administrator of the General Services Administration, in a report released yesterday.
BLS, Census and DEA gear up to improve software
Three agencies have bought processMax software project management tools from Pragma Systems Corp. of Reston, Va., to move up the scale of the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model.
Illinois, Kansas lead states in e-gov
The fourth annual study of states' progress in electronic government, conducted by the Center for Digital Government and the Progress and Freedom Foundation, found Illinois and Kansas both tops. Last year they ranked fourth and second, respectively. The previous three-time winner, Washington State, dropped to third place.
Defense CIOs honor their own
Senior Defense Department chief information officers this month gave the first-ever DOD CIO Awards to the Army Recruiting Command's Information Support Activity and to Robert J. Fecteau, CIO of the Army Intelligence and Security Command.
USPS gets good grade for e-commerce privacy
To meet online competition, the Postal Service has narrowed its e-commerce projects to five but cannot yet report what they cost, the General Accounting Office said last week. Postal officials told GAO that only some of their online initiatives were meant to generate revenue. The others support core delivery services and help customers find information, they said.
PocketBlue walks a beat
Several Washington-area federal and local law enforcement agencies are testing Aether Systems Inc.'s PocketBlue program for real-time mobile communications via 90 handheld devices donated by the Marlborough, Mass., company.
Web form replaces Dear Abby letters to service members
The 17-year-old Operation Dear Abby message program for overseas military personnel was suspended after the anthrax scare. Now it has a Web replacement sponsored by the Navy.
Dell starts 2-processor server at $1,399
Although it costs about the same as a desktop PC, the Dell PowerEdge 1500SC server has dual 1.13-GHz Pentium III processors, a 1-Gbps data bus and hot-plug drives. That's because Dell is 'on a tear' to capture workgroup server leadership, said Subo Guha, director of enterprise product marketing. Federal buyers get a 6 percent discount on General Services Administration IT Schedule.
Company wants to link homeland security, e-gov
One of the digital certificate suppliers for the Federal Bridge Certification Authority this month proposed linking homeland security to e-government via broad security policy mapping.
IBM PCs add Bluetooth plus 802.11b Ethernet
New IBM Corp. NetVista and ThinkPad PCs have an embedded security subsystem that automatically encrypts files, e-mail and user keys but can be turned off if unneeded.
BLS steps up to software management tool
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has bought 250 copies of a software project management tool, processMax2, from Pragma Systems Corp. of Reston, Va., to move up to the second level of the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model.
VOAnews.com broadens coverage of war
The Voice of America has expanded its news offerings in the Pashto, Dari, Urdu, Uzbek and Farsi languages common in and around Afghanistan. The year-old <a href="http://VOAnews.com">VOAnews.com</a> international news site, launched in November 2000 to supplement shortwave radio broadcasts, presents streaming audio and video news about the U.S. war on terrorism and subjects such as anthrax. The home page appears in Arabic and Chinese as well as English.
Sept. 11 archive preserves 2,500 Web sites
The Library of Congress, which has drawn occasional fire for ignoring digital documents in favor of paper, has created a Web archive about the events of Sept. 11. Working in collaboration with the Internet Archive, webArchivist.org and a charitable trust, the library selected about 2,500 Web sites to preserve. They were the work of individuals, institutions and the media reacting to the terrorist attacks.
FEMA seeks multihazard mapping framework
As agencies feel the pressure to free up their stovepiped data, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is seeking proposals for an interoperability framework that could combine spatial data from federal, state and local storehouses on the fly via the Web.
NASA releases classic software to public domain
NASA turned 43 this month and marked the occasion by releasing more than 200 of its scientific and engineering applications for public use. The modular Fortran programs can be modified, compiled and run on most Linux platforms.
Lawmakers offer homeland security plans
Shortly after President Bush named Tom Ridge and cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke to head the Homeland Security Office, Sens. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) proposed legislation creating a cabinet-level National Homeland Security Department with funding from and accountability to Congress.
GPS sets sights to 36-meter accuracy
The Defense Department's Global Positioning System today closed in on targets with a 36-meter horizontal accuracy standard for civilian use'much finer than the 100-meter accuracy under the 1995 GPS standard. Thirty-six meters equals about 119 feet.
Acrobat gets digital signature capability
Agencies that use Adobe Portable Document Format for their output can add digital signature capability for $39 per seat.
How White House plans to fight cyberterrorism
President Bush has released his long-awaited presidential order creating a high-level board to protect the nation's critical information systems.
SAP protests Medicare unified accounting plans
SAP America Inc. has protested the Health and Human Services Department's planned acquisition of Oracle Federal Financials software that could be part of the $328 million Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System [see story at <a href="http://www.gcn.com/20_30a/inbrief/17244-1.html">www.gcn.com/20_30a/inbrief/17244-1.html</a>].
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