MAA local services awarded in Texas
The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service this week awarded two Metropolitan Area Acquisition contracts for local telecommunications at federal agencies in and around San Antonio, cutting current rates there by an estimated 50 percent.
Few feds delinquent with SmartPay cards, report says
Despite recent charges of misuse of Defense Department credit cards, almost all employees who hold them have been paying their bills on time.
House to sweep floor with XML
The House of Representatives this week released drafts of 110 Extensible Markup Language document type definitions for all its legislative activities. The DTDs are in the public domain and cover categories ranging from bills and resolutions to deletions and anomalous document structures.
CIO Council puts $1.2m toward portals
The Chief Information Officers Council's electronic-government committee has approved $1.2 million to fund eight cross-agency Web portals.
New Mini PC features a wireless link to its CPU
The release of a new wearable notebook PC, the Panasonic Toughbook 07 Mini PC, follows close on the heels of the Xybernaut wearable PC.
Cyberprotection plan is set for summer release
The Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office expects to have a national plan to thwart cyberterrorism ready by summer. Darwyn Banks, CIAO program coordinator at the Commerce Department, said National Plan 1.0 will have government and private-sector infrastructure components but will be nonregulatory. The federal government does not own the infrastructure of transportation, finance, energy or emergency response services, he said. Banks and Tom Burke, the Federal Technology Service's assistant commissioner for information security, spoke last week at
Olicom delivers a fast switch
Agencies with aging token-ring LANs can plug them into the Fast Ethernet world with the CrossFire 8730 Translation Switch from Olicom Inc. The Richardson, Texas, company puts four Fast Ethernet switch ports and 20 token-ring switch ports into the device. Bundled software translates between the dissimilar frame sizes and topologies at a claimed near-line speed. Also included is Olicom's ClearSession high-availability software, which has a spanning-tree algorithm to detect transmission faults and reroute within three
AOL, Linux officials are keynote highlights at April's AIIM show
The AIIM '99 trade show in Atlanta from April 11 to 15 will have as keynoters Ted Leonsis, president and chief executive officer of America Online Studios, and Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system. A special government conference track set for Tuesday evening, April 13, and all the next day will cover imaging in South Carolina's retirement systems, case studies in county document automation and confidentiality issues in electronic dissemination of federal documents.
Win 2000 use will require prep work
If your agency plans to upgrade to Microsoft Windows 2000 after Microsoft Corp. releases the scalable operating system this fall, prepare for some changes. Microsoft's technology specialists manager Sean Murphy this month described the OS as "a very different animal" from earlier Windows versions. Speaking at FOSE trade show in Washington, Murphy said a third and final beta version of Win 2000, due in the next several months, will be feature-complete and almost ready for release.
Supercomputing's next frontier strains software
Paul Messina, senior adviser for Energy's Accelerated Strategic gic Computing Initiative, said this month at a conference at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., that ASCI is spending $100 million a year to stretch existing, sequentially programmed applications so that they can run over thousands of processors.
Agencies lack funds for IT research, exec says
Stagnant federal investment in R&D threatens progress, 3Com chairman Eric Benhamou says. Federal research in information technology focuses myopically on near-term problems, said Eric Benhamou, 3Com Corp. chairman and chief executive officer. Speaking this month at the Upside Summit '98 conference in Washington, the CEO of the Santa Clara, Calif., company and a member of the President's IT Advisory Committee said privately funded research "is not picking up the slack" left by the stagnation
450-MHz Pentium II appears in PCs, servers for a price premium
The newly released 450-MHz Intel Pentium II processor arrived in leading PC and server makers' lines last month, priced at a premium above the fastest Pentium II systems from a year ago. Near the end of last year's buying season, a 266-MHz Pentium II Vectra system from Hewlett-Packard Co. went for slightly less than $2,000, without monitor, on a General Services Administration Information Technology Schedule contract. It had 32M RAM, 4G hard drive, 24X CD-ROM drive
Micron plans federal PC leasing, disposal deal
SUN VALLEY, Idaho—Seat management features will be part of new lease arrangements that Micron Electronics Inc. will propose to the General Services Administration within the next two weeks. The Nampa, Idaho, PC maker is one of several vendors rushing to add lease arrangements to its GSA Information Technology Schedule contracts and blanket purchasing agreements. But Micron's lease deal, if approved, would also offer federal users trade-in rebates, technical refreshment and free, environmentally safe disposal of old
New Intergraph graphics bundle is a whiz at 3-D apps, company says
Intergraph Corp. is claiming that its Wildcat 3-D graphics system can perform up to 10 times better than current 3-D desktop systems running Unix or Microsoft Windows NT. The Huntsville, Ala., company announced the graphics package last month at the Siggraph trade show in Orlando, Fla. The performance boost comes by way of the Intense 3-D Wildcat 4100 accelerator chip set and ParaScale architecture, which will be standard in all Intergraph TDZ 2000 ViZual workstations. Users
BorderManager lets users maintain local control over authentication, authorization
Novell Inc. last week issued a border-crossing passport between Novell NetWare or Microsoft Windows NT LANs and the rest of the networked world. The cross-platform BorderManager Authentication Service software uses the Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service, or Radius, protocol to exchange user information securely with Radius-compliant firewalls, remote-access servers and Internet-routing equipment.
Data transformer package now works for enterprise
The individual spokes map-specific data to target structures. The Data Junction data transformer package, around since early MS-DOS days, now has a graphical Enterprise Edition that the company said can handle conversions from mainframe databases from IBM Corp., Oracle Corp. and Informix Software Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif.
Base looks for a GIS payback
"We haven't been able to do it, and nobody else has," said Greg Kuester, GIS and computer-aided design manager in the office of the director of public works at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. In spite of initial return-on-investment studies and ongoing anecdotal evidence based on requests for custom color maps, the payback remains uncertain.
PC makers are quick to adopt Pentium Pro
Intel Corp.'s 150- to 200-MHz Pentium Pro processors roared off the runway this month in single, dual and quad formations that should make the ride rougher for Silicon Graphics Inc. Rx000 reduced-instruction-set-computing platforms. Leading computer makers are positioning their Pentium Pro boxes as enterprise servers, but they'll come workstation-style, too, with at least 16M RAM and Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 or Windows 95 preinstalled.
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