Before their time
Kudos are due to researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology for being skeptical of biometrics.
Weber will take over at SSG
The Air Force Standard Systems Group gets a new boss starting Monday, when Frank E. Weber takes over from Robert Frye, who is retiring.
Air Force: Control center jobs are too critical to outsource
The Air Force is unlikely to outsource many of the blue-suit, or uniformed, positions in communications and network operations because of how critical they are to warfighting, officials said at the Air Force Information Technology Conference.
Air Force brass touts comm integration
The future of communications in the Air Force is what one colonel dubbed 'weaponizing the network''turning the communications infrastructure into an integral link in what brass have started calling the kill chain.
Air Force comm agency switches to Dell servers
The Air Force Pentagon Communications Agency will replace 400 Compaq servers with 100 Dell PowerEdge rackmounted Pentium 4 servers.
Air Force's chief of staff urges integration
The Air Force's chief today told his systems underlings to stop acting like members of a tribe and more like members of an integrated team.
Maintain control
Can it be true? Is even the vaunted Capability Maturity Model for software development so subjective that you can't always believe vendor claims of CMM level ratings?
Utility cleans your system of spyware
Your shed or garage probably has a hunk of Lava soap, that gritty, industrial bar that not only takes grease and grime off your hands but also, it seems, the top layer of skin.
OMB team lays out its e-gov agenda
The Office of Management and Budget's e-government team met recently at the Washington offices of GCN and Washington Technology to discuss the administration's e-gov progress.
Why file at all?
Two recent developments at the IRS illustrate how far the government is from the nirvana notion of transformation.
Too fast to the altar
Creating a Homeland Security Department'whatever form it finally takes'won't be clean or easy.
A-76: Here to stay
OMB Circular A-76: It sounds arcane, dry. Or else like some absurd expression a Joseph Heller wannabe would put in a novel.
Resist revenge
Like many citizens, I was both fascinated and repelled by the spectacle of the WorldCom Inc. executives hiding behind the Fifth Amendment rather than answering admittedly hostile congressional questions. They appeared to embody contradictory emotions'arrogance and humiliation, nonchalance and fear, earnestness and deception.
Marines take on the enterprise
Debra M. Filippi, the Marine Corps' deputy CIO, knows the C4 world from the ground up.
Broadband?
I'm about to break one of my own rules: Never write an editorial when you're mad.
It takes a gorilla to drive change
You remember Jim Champy. Or at least you remember business process re-engineering, the movement'or fad, depending on your viewpoint'spawned by his 1993 bestseller, Re-engineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution, co-authored with Michael Hammer.
FEMA targets public-safety wireless stovepipes
To ensure interoperability and avoid stovepipes and duplicative efforts, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will coordinate all of the government's emergency and first-response wireless communications.
Rare chance
President Bush's Homeland Security Department proposal has sparked speculation about technology, systems, processes and goals. It represents a rare chance to correctly align business goals with technology and create, as Bush put it in a speech last month, 'a modern agency as efficient as the best corporation in America.' An agency, Bush added pointedly, 'that actually works.'
Look in the mirror
Public servants often suffer from the public's poor perception of them. But you know that already. So here's a question: Would the view that the public and politicians have of career federal managers improve if feds had a better view of themselves?
Secrecy central
Since the Bush administration took office, federal agencies have become less willing to reveal the most mundane information. Officials hide more behind public affairs flacks, information disappears from Web sites and routine facts about programs are difficult to pry out.
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