People
Communications command starts
The Army's new Communications-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command combines three organizations.
People
DHS to lose Verdery
Stewart Verdery, assistant secretary for border and transportation security policy and planning, is resigning his post effective March 4.
Digital Government
Data model changes coming
Officials say the federal enterprise architecture's recently released data reference model lacks information in some areas.
Modernization
Pentagon seeks more IT money
Major Defense Department computer and communications programs will see significant increases in the 2006 budget request due for release next week, the Pentagon's CIO said.
Modernization
Altiris joins IBM scripting kit
Altiris and IBM officials have entered into an agreement that allows IBM to sell Altiris' Deployment Solution for Servers product.
People
Audit faults VCF management
An inspector general blames Virtual Case File's stumbles on poor management and inadequate oversight.
Acquisition
Subcontracting rule delayed
The regulation that would allow agency officials to consider companies' track records when making source selections needs congressional approval.
Modernization
NASA to test adaptable computer
An experimental mission scheduled for 2008 will include a computing system that can adjust to different environments.
Digital Government
L.A. mulls open source
Three Los Angeles council members want the city to switch to open-source software to save millions of dollars that could be used for police expansion.
People
Mueller: No decision yet on VCF
The FBI director said he has been guilty of raising expectations about Virtual Case File.
People
Incumbent vendor wins Geospatial One-Stop revamp
ESRI will redesign the Geospatial One Stop portal that it created under a new five-year, $2.4 million contract. <@SM>
Modernization
New features ease BPM planning
Installing business process management software is just one part of setting up an enterprisewide workflow.
Modernization
Process makes perfect
When Prince William County, Va., decided to automate the routing of internal forms, it found that standard workflow software wasn’t up to the job.
Digital Government
Red Hat opens fed unit
One of the major Linux distributors has created a federal government division.
People
Cray XT3 coming to DOD
Cray is slated to deliver a supercomputer that will become the largest system in the Pentagon's High Performance Computing Modernization Program.
People
Cebrowski stresses net-centric war
DOD's newly retired transformation chief warns against the enemies of change and transformation.
People
Super Bowl security uses E-Sponder
More than 50 agencies guarding the Super Bowl and surrounding events will share info via the Web-based system.
Cybersecurity
Microsoft seeks security cooperation
The software vendor wants to create a community of governments to share information and conduct joint projects on security.
People
DHS privacy office eyes tech
The Homeland Security Department released its first annual privacy report to Congress, outlining work done in numerous areas, including technology.
People