Bye-bye, quotas
No one will be sorry to see the Office of Management and Budget get rid of its outsourcing quotas.
Sharp's Actius ultralight is a flawed jewel
The ultraportable Sharp Actius MM10 notebook PC sounds like a traveler's dream come true, with its 1-GHz processor, onboard Ethernet plus IEEE 802.11b networking and bright, sharp display. And at 2.1 pounds and about a half-inch thick, it's made to travel light.
Act quickly, OMB
Buying and installing technology can be done quickly. Crafting policies to avoid uninteroperable systems can take an eternity.
Degrees of value
For several weeks, GCN and its sister publication, Washington Technology, have been reporting on the revelation that some high-level career and appointed IT officials have obtained advanced degrees from institutions with dubious academic credentials.
Baby steps
Between the development of the Homeland Security Department and the Office of Management and Budget's hallowed e-government efforts, you could almost forget there's a vast government still plugging away at unglamorous routine.
Navy will more than double NMCI seats this year
NEW ORLEANS'Part revival tent, part sales pitch and part technology update, last month's Navy'Marine Corps Intranet Symposium focused on the positive side of the largest-ever services outsourcing buy.
For the lesson book
An old show biz axiom says, 'Make your mistakes in small rooms.'To some extent, that's what the Defense Department did in Iraq. As noted in Dawn S. Onley's story about the continuing deployment in Iraq, DOD chieftains are poring over results from the recent war to find out how well networks worked and whether battlefield systems integration has improved.
NMCI chiefs say the project is looking up
Prime contractor EDS is unequivocally committed to seeing the seven-year Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program to completion, a key executive says.<br>
Vendor eat vendor
With a bold, though rejected, takeover bid this month, the wily Larry Ellison threw the world of big software vendors into turmoil.
E-gov's shallow
Is e-government really for all the people? Does it engender more trust in government? Does it ultimately increase participation in democracy?
Hot device for hot spots
The new Palm Inc. Tungsten C is like a Palm on steroids. Whereas once the company touted the tininess of its applications and OS, now it produces devices as muscular as any handheld running Microsoft Windows.
The politics of data
'An abject failure of leadership' is how Rep. John F. Tierney described the fact that the Homeland Security Department hasn't completed the terrorist watch list database.
NSF planning a vast upgrade to infrastructure
BOSTON'The National Science Foundation is planning up to a $1 billion upgrade of the computing infrastructure supporting its research and engineering activities.
Study finds local governments have static Web presence
Most local governments have Web sites, but they are mostly passive brochure-ware with very little in the way of transactions.<br>
NMCI redux
During a recent luncheon talk, I noted that agencies create far fewer big indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts than 10 years ago. Instead, I joked, vendors now lose money on big performance-based contracts.
Scientists ponder the politics of data
Computer simulation models many policy makers use to predict the outcomes of proposals aren't up to the task of giving objective answers. Two researchers at the University of Washington are trying to change that.<br>
NSF planning major new computing initiative
The National Science Foundation is planning up to a $1 billion upgrade of the computing infrastructure supporting its research and engineering activities.<br>
Package intercepts malicious payloads
What if it didn't matter if your antivirus software and firewall failed to catch e-mail bearing a malicious executable file? That's the idea behind ImmuneNode and ImmuneServer from BBX Technologies Inc.
WIT names Washington area's top women execs
The Coast Guard's first woman admiral received the lifetime achievement award from Women In Technology at its annual dinner last night.<br>
From the trenches
They praise one another in public. They describe an ongoing and bipartisan process of reform in systems procurement and management that dates back to 1993. But Clinton administration appointees have a subtly different worldview than their Bush administration counterparts. Career officials who don't discern this face an unpleasant couple of years.
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