Digital Government
Dates of Progress
The Transportation Department's Strategic Plan for 20002005 describes how the agency will protect its critical information systems.
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Hot, hot, hot
A looming federal workforce shortage and pressure from the White House and Congress to move government business online are creating the market that will give rise to the next hot federal contractors.
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Finding its net voice
When the command at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard transferred responsibility for the yard's phone system from the facilities staff to the information technology department as part of a centralization project, the department did what many computer shops in the same situation would love to do: It hatched a plan to run those phones over its own IPbased computer data network.
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Study raps agencies' Web proficiency
While many federal Web sites are struggling to find a niche, a new study by Brown University found that many of these online sites are not fully taking advantage of the benefits of the Internet
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New nets heat up Antarctica
Antarctica is a desert on ice. Although the continent holds more than 90 percent of the world's ice, it only averages a few inches of precipitation annually and is one of the least friendly places on Earth for human habitation.
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Breaking the dot-com mold
Only a few short months ago, anything ending with ".com" was sure to stir interest. So when EzGov dropped the .com from its name, it was an indication of just how fast the government market is evolving.
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Gigabit Ethernet installation
Phase One (September 2000): Replace the existing Synoptics/Bay Networks Inc. Fiber Distributed Data Interface ring, which has been in place since 1993, with a Layer 3 backbone from Cisco Systems Inc.
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Tough times for 8(a)s
Procurement reform takes a bite out of minority firms federal IT sales
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A sensible goal for FirstGov
The history of government reform is littered with plans to make government less bureaucratic, more responsive and less wasteful.
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Light on its feet
Information technology companies are using the momentum of procurement reform to restructure, readjust and rethink the way they go after federal IT business, which has become more freewheeling and less hampered by bureaucratic red tape.
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Are IP phone systems secure?
Before the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard could connect its new voice-over-IP (VOIP) phone system, which runs on the yard's internal data network, to the public telephone system, it had to have the system's security approved by the Navy's security specialists.
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PITAC endorses open-source software
The federal government should use opensource software development for highend computing needs, a presidential advisory panel says
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DOT forecast: Crowded skies
The FAA's $2 billionayear effort to modernize the U.S. air traffic control system with new technology will do little to bring passengers relief from delays, according to top Transportation Department officials.
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Security out of the box
Network security is a priority at virtually every federal agency. Although it used to be enough to throw up a firewall, the increasing demands of Internet access, the constant production of new and increasingly dangerous viruses, and the migration of many workers to more remote and less protected computing environs is making a sense of security harder to come by.
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3-D adds new dimension to visualizing networks
A complete diagram can make installing and maintaining a network much easier. The key is to find a diagramming software product that is easy to use, visually interesting and logically organized. In a crowded field, netViz stands out in all those areas. And the new 3D feature literally adds a new dimension to its usefulness.
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A pair of misguided bills
As the 106th Congress winds down, lawmakers are considering bills that, in the name of helping small firms compete in the federal marketplace, could cost taxpayers billions of dollars each year.
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On a roll
Officials at Computer Sciences Corp. credit two decisions for the companys blistering growth in the federal information technology arena: sharpening their focus on value-added services such as performance contracts and consolidating federal operations in 1998.
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