FEMA will oversee all wireless efforts
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will coordinate all federal wireless communications projects in a bid to ensure interoperability and standards while avoiding stovepiped systems.
Avoid a similar fate
One hopes that the sorry state of affairs between Oracle Corp. and California doesn't scare government agencies off the idea of enterprise software licenses.
Standardization of practices is key
Craig Conway, the president and chief executive officer of PeopleSoft Inc., joined the Pleasanton, Calif., company in 1999. Taking a gamble, he plowed 27 percent of its revenue into transforming its client-server applications to work through browsers.
Systems R&D focuses on response to terrorism
REDONDO BEACH, Calif.'In the wake of Sept. 11, government IT shops have changed more than just how they manage systems. They have also shifted the agendas of academics conducting research into governmental IT.
Stalled at the pass
On Sept. 12, every IT company became an antiterror, homeland security vendor'or so it seemed, judging by the sheer volume of marketing hype.
DOD class pinpoints e-gov definition
Ask 10 people 'What is e-government?' and you're likely to get 10 different answers.
Making cybersense
As in the aftermath of other crises in U.S. history, the government instinctively began creating new offices following the Sept. 11 attacks.
Defense coders are fading away
SALT LAKE CITY'The armed services are nearly out of the software coding business. For the most part, military officials have turned over development of new systems to contractors or have implemented commercial software.
Signal Command adds network duties
SALT LAKE CITY'The Army will launch two initiatives Oct. 1 to help standardize its software and networks.
Air Force panel will scrutinize software issues
SALT LAKE CITY'The Air Force has established a panel to review software concerns and help create software policies.
Where there's a will
The athlete looked tired but determined. He was pushing up the last of a series of steep hills in a long road race. Spectators cheered and shouted encouragement. The weather had warmed considerably from the noon start, making the going more difficult.
Navy adopts Web app to schedule ships
WebSked sounds like a snazzy online scheduling or travel program. It is online, it is for scheduling, and it sports cool graphics. But WebSked, an application for scheduling Navy ships, is the newest module of the Global Command and Control System-Maritime.
Army will tweak its network and software practices
SALT LAKE CITY'The Army will launch two initiatives Oct. 1 to help standardize its software and networks.
Air Force creates a new software panel
SALT LAKE CITY'The Air Force has established a panel to review software issues and help create software policies.
Online job fair: Now the sifting begins
A federal online job fair by this morning had garnered a million hits on its Web server and 11,700 applications for 270 IT job openings. The fair, conducted by the Office of Personnel Management and the federal CIO Council, went live Monday and is scheduled to close at midnight tonight.
Editorial: Snoop patrol
At the public schools in my neighborhood, local police officers often visit to advise kids and parents on the dangers of alcohol and drugs. One piece of advice always bothers me: Lock up the liquor cabinet.
EDITORIAL
As everyone now knows, the Immigration and Naturalization Service last month sent student visas for two dead Sept. 11 terrorists to their Florida flight school.
NASA looks for a new desktop outsourcing metric
Four and a half years into desktop outsourcing, NASA has become adept at keeping tabs on contractor performance. Now the agency wants to find a way to measure how well its Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA supports the agency's mission, CIO Lee Holcomb said.
EDITORIAL
The General Services Ad-ministration surprised a lot of people when it chose not to continue with the Inktomi Corp. technology for the second-generation search engine for its FirstGov portal. Inktomi had donated the search services and the hardware to host FirstGov, so many assumed it would have the incumbent's advantage.
Flyzik, Altman win Azimuth awards
Treasury CIO Jim Flyzik and IBM executive Anne K. Altman are recipients of this year's Azimuth awards, chosen by the CIO Council and sponsored by the FOSE IT trade show. The awards, given for outstanding service to federal IT, were presented by Bill Howell, FOSE's general manager, and Mark Forman, associate director for IT and e-government at the Office of Management and Budget, at a dinner last night in Washington.
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