Lackland adds fiber to its blade diet
Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, is feeding fiber to its PC blade farm.About a year ago Lackland began replacing its 200-plus desktop computers with rack-mounted ClearCube PC blades in a locked server room. Users have been testing desktop fiber command units called C/Ports from ClearCube Technology Inc. of Austin, Texas.
Army orders up a rugged notebook
Rugged Unix notebook computers now figure in the Army's $2 billion, 10-year follow-on Common Hardware/Software III contract for tactical command, control and communications. Army officials said the rugged notebooks will run fire support applications, many written in open source code.
Man, Bytes, Dog
At Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, a pair of Palm OS applications can confirm guests arriving for a retirement luncheon as well as train bomb-sniffing dogs.
E-blueprints
A National Institutes of Health office has bought records management software so that architects and agency officials can trade their blueprint comments on a Web drawing board.
Software is vulnerable, just like us
Last year, Tom Richey joined Microsoft Corp.'s public-sector strategy team for homeland security. The match seemed fitting.
On the ball
A Veterans Affairs police officer is called in to subdue an unruly hospital patient'routine duty that turns sour. The patient pulls out a knife and stabs the officer.
USDA upgrades hardware and moves to XP
The Agriculture Department this summer bought more than 26,000 desktop and notebook PCs from Gateway Inc., one of three vendors supplying hardware for the department's Common Computing Environment. The others are Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co.
Locator serves up a family's just desserts
For 15 years, a Washington state businessman paid his taxes but failed to send a single child support check to his ex-wife and three children'twins and a child with cerebral palsy.
Child support gets a support system
For five years, Northern California child support enforcement officials tried to collect child support checks from a surgeon whose debts topped $300,000 and whose home address kept shifting.
USDA furthers modernization with hardware buys
The Agriculture Department has bought more than 26,000 PCs since July from Gateway Inc., one of three vendors supplying hardware for the department's infrastructure modernization.<br>
VA medical centers get help desk assist
Three Veterans Affairs Department medical centers soon will use new help desk and asset management software.<br>
PAC Mate gets two new mates
The maker of PAC Mate, a portable computer for the blind, has added two more devices to its lineup for federal customers. <br>
Gateway wins new BPA with DLA
The Defense Logistics Agency has entered a four-year blanket purchasing agreement to buy desktop and notebook PCs from Gateway Inc., an arrangement that already has saved the agency $1.3 million.<br>
MapPoint can take users in new directions
Microsoft Corp. has released a 2004 version of its MapPoint graphing software that's loaded with new geographic and demographic data.
MapPoint takes users in new directions
Microsoft Corp. has released a 2004 version of its MapPoint graphing software that's loaded with new geographic and demographic data. <br>
NIH links diet aid searchers to medical database
A National Institutes of Health Web site about dietary supplements will now link to a National Library of Medicine database.<br>
Audit suggests NARA tighten e-archive plans
The National Archives and Records Administration is missing key elements in its plan to build an electronic archiving system, the General Accounting Office has reported.
Handhelds let first responders detect radiation
When Mike Dunning, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist, heads out to confirm reports of high radiation levels, he plugs his detector into an unlikely power source'his car's cigarette lighter.
NARA's plan for archival system lacks detail, GAO says
Sketchy plans for an Electronic Records Archives system could put the NARA system at risk of failure over the long haul, an early audit concludes.
Smart passports will soon face up to tough scrutiny
A year from this fall, Americans will begin to travel with the State Department's new intelligent passports.
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