White House puts new face on its Web site
Responding to widespread criticism that it had a mediocre Web site, the White House relaunched <i>www.whitehouse.gov</i> just before the Labor Day weekend.
IRS will offer online payment for individuals
The IRS plans to go live tomorrow with a Web payment system for taxpayers who use Form 1040 or file quarterly. The service has offered online filing for several years but not online payment.
EDITORIAL
The fiscal realities that have hit so many technology companies are coming home to roost for state budgets. As Wilson P. Dizard III reports on Page 1, figures compiled by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers show that 30 states are experiencing budget shortfalls going into fiscal 2002.
Toss the middleware, Oracle's Ellison tells group
Quick, what's the dumbest way you can think of to assemble an information architecture?
EDITORIAL
Fundamentally, I like Rep. Tom Davis' idea of information technology types in government and industry swapping jobs.
EDITORIAL
Government agencies could learn a lot from L.L. Bean.
EDITORIAL
Ever notice how scientific advances have made so many ordinary things better in recent years?
EDITORIAL
As associate editor Trudy Walsh details in this month's cover story, the job of delivering computers to classrooms has advanced so far that the education establishment can declare the public schools' digital divide nearly closed.
Langston plans $1b IT initiative
DOD maintains a Cold War-era management structure that is resistant to change, lacks reliable databases and has failed to build an information technology infrastructure to support systems it needs, said Paul Brubaker, principal director in the office of CIO Marvin Langston. He spoke last week at the Air Force's Software Technology Conference.
A second Stillman, he of HHS, signs off
Described as a man of integrity and commitment to public service—and a stickler for detail—Neil Stillman retired this month as deputy assistant secretary for IRM at the Health and Human Services Department amid accolades from friends and co-workers. He worked 34 years for the federal government, including stints with the Air Force and Defense Intelligence Agency.
At Leong-Hong's farewell fete, officials laud her DOD service
What will Belkis Leong-Hong do next? That was Topic A among the 200 people who attended the recent retirement dinner for the chief information officer of the Defense Security Service. Leong-Hong took the job last June, capping a 29-year career with the federal government that included 18 years at the Defense Department.
Backers of thin-computing movement tout slim servers, tightened terminals | GCN
"Even engineers use Windows," Gilbertson said. Thin is in. Again. If you looked carefully amid the clamor over 450-MHz CPUs, 34G hard drives and superfast 3-D graphics subsystems at the recent Comdex trade show, you saw signs that the thin-computing movement is far from dead. The avalanche of new handheld and portable computing devices could be construed as part of the movement, but more than one vendor focused on thin clients in
Sysadmins eye software that simplifies RAID
Systems administrators like the security of redundant arrays of independent disks, but they hate the complexity of choosing RAID levels for their applications. And they dislike the performance hit that RAID storage can exact. That's why storage vendors are introducing software to simplify RAID administration. An example is the Adaptive RAID package from nStor Corp. of Lake Mary, Fla.
State, local IT moves quickly
That's advice from Paul Lombardi, president of DynCorp of Reston, Va. Lombardi, who became president in March 1997, said he is consolidating the company's drive into the government IT market at all levels, including federal. DynCorp, founded in 1949, has acquired 13 IT service companies since 1991. Lombardi calls computer services, as opposed to services such as aircraft maintenance that the company used to sell, "the fountainhead for the future."
Keep a grip on the reins
Stepping away from your own point of view can give you a new perspective on your own problems. It happened to me--and I suspect some federal systems chiefs, too--at the recent Information Processing Interagency Conference in New Orleans. Steven Junk, vice president for information systems at Sears, Roebuck & Co., spoke at length about his company's travails in using systems to bring the old-line retailer into the '90s.
Put 'C' in CIO
Consider the progress on four seemingly unrelated initiatives: Viewed as a group, these items create an unflattering picture of a bureaucracy that's strangely out of sync with the mandates and policies under which it should be operating. A closer look shows a bureaucracy operating under competing forces it can't control.
Washington Post buys GCN, other properties
The Washington Post also acquired GCN/State & Local, GCN Shopper, GCN's annual Contract Sourcing Guide and Reseller Management magazine. FOSE and Fed Imaging, annual information technology trade shows in Washington, were also part of the deal. Other publications in the PNBI group are Washington Technology, Integration Management and Tech Capital. The Washington Post is publisher of the Washington Post newspaper and Newsweek magazine.
Let 'em type
You'd have thought he proposed leading in a camel by a nose ring, given all the indignant and bipartisan opposition he aroused. It turns out there is a Senate rule barring mechanical devices on the floor. Maybe the rule was written in a time when senators dueled, and they wanted to keep pistols out of the chamber.
States' old systems can't track welfare recipients
WILLIAMSBURG, Va.--States track more than half of all welfare cases nationwide using systems that date back to the 1970s, according to the Health and Human Services Department. Three states use systems first installed in 1972, said an HHS official who recently detailed the findings of a soon-to-be-released HHS report.
Bring on the Beans
In this context, bean counter is a compliment--and it's just what FTS needs as it moves into the era of FTS 2001 and desktop seat management. By all accounts, Fischer, now GSA's chief financial officer, is a deliberate and thorough executive. The massive FTS 2001 telecommunications contracts, like the waning FTS 2000 program they will replace, will need a steady hand to guide them through evaluation of bids and final awards. Telecommunications vendors are a
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