Small and wireless are hot trends
LAS VEGAS'The computer industry's annual tribal gathering at Comdex last month was decidedly low-key, but the industry slump hasn't stopped innovation.
Frye's IT career advice: Not so fast
After 33 years of military and civilian federal service, the recently retired Bob Frye knows a thing or two about management, and some of his knowledge flies in the face of conventional wisdom.
Managed security services are coming, Symantec CEO says
Symantec Corp.'s CEO says outsourced managed security service contracts are the wave of the future for government networks, but the market is nascent.<br>
A gift list for feds
Everybody wants new toys at the holiday season. When kids outgrow Legos, though, their gotta-haves no longer cost $10 or $20, they're more like hundreds of dollars.
Wireless LAN vendors attack security issues
When the Pentagon'no small potential customer'cracked down recently on the installation of wireless LANs, the industry sat up and took notice.
DVD wars: Hardware makers hatch a feud
Competing camps of DVD hardware manufacturers used the Comdex show this week to stage competing news conferences and product demonstrations. <br>
Wireless LANs get big push at Comdex
The subtitle for the Comdex show could be 'The Wireless Show,' with much of the action centered around 802.11 products.<br>
Innovation still hot offering at Comdex ' despite the short cab lines
The computer industry's annual tribal gathering, Comdex, is decidedly smaller and more low-key than in its heyday.<br>
Dell's Homeland view: one architecture, one mission
With the Homeland Security Department closer to reality, one IT industry executive emphasized the need for an architecture that supports a broad range of information sharing.<br>
Can we talk?
Last month's multiagency pursuit of the Washington-area snipers proved how elusive interoperability can be.
DISA at halfway point in rolling out wireless priority service
Emergency response officials nationwide will get wireless priority phone service starting in May.
Gun database blues
Residents of greater Washington, after weeks of siege, could finally stand up straight when police apparently closed in on the infamous sniper. The public-event cancellations and school lockdowns had real effects on nearly everyone's lives and psyches.
If you build it . . .
If you want to hear a fresh perspective on enterprise architectures, catch a few minutes with Fred Thompson. Thompson is the assistant director for consulting and marketing in the CIO Customer Service Consulting Group at the Treasury Department. His basic message is that without the right people, an agency will never establish a relevant and long-lasting enterprise architecture.
20 years and counting
Anniversaries always prompt people to look for themes, compare the present with the past, make predictions.
OMB-centric world
At the recent Interagency Resources Management Conference in Hershey, Pa., a reader said that GCN's coverage of the Office of Management and Budget had intensified noticeably in the past year.
Marines unravel disparate systems to reknit them for interoperability
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.'In a row of room-sized, camouflaged field enclosures on a windy, seaside plain, Marines diligently chip away at a massive systems integration project.
Keep it loose
Ever been in one of those by-the-pound candy stores with scores of colorful bins filled with every imaginable type of candy? It's not just children who become overwhelmed by the possible combinations.
NSA pans for data gold
How do you filter coherent information out of a swiftly flowing river of seemingly undifferentiated bits?
The agenda has changed'and so have we
"We've been told an airplane hit the World Trade Center and, well, the president has ordered all civilian aviation grounded," said the pilot of US Airways Flight 175, Charlotte to Phoenix. The other flight 175 that morning.
Air Force comm agency switches to Dell servers
The Air Force Pentagon Communications Agency will replace 400 Compaq Computer Corp. servers with 100 Dell PowerEdge rackmounted Pentium 4 servers.
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