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

GSA gets acquisition exec from SBA

Emily Murphy has been named chief acquisition officer at the General Services Administration.