People
The end of government as we know it
If all it does is make possible instantaneous searches of the 40 million pages the federal government has posted on the Internet, FirstGov would be a useful tool and a rather remarkable achievement.
People
N/MCI award nears the homestretch
The Navy is likely to announce a contract winner for N/MCI around Sept. 20
Digital Government
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.
Digital Government
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.
People
Virtual diagnosis
Navy and Marine Corps medical personnel are using an interactive training tool that simulates the conditions of victims caught in a nuclear, chemical or biological attack.
Digital Government
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.
Digital Government
PITAC endorses open-source software
The federal government should use opensource software development for highend computing needs, a presidential advisory panel says
People
What protection?
The odds of winning an appeal against your agency are not in your favor, according to the most recent figures from the Merit Systems Protection Board. Only about 18 percent of the cases considered by the MSPB were decided in favor of the employee.
Digital Government
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.
Digital Government
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.
Digital Government
A sensible goal for FirstGov
The history of government reform is littered with plans to make government less bureaucratic, more responsive and less wasteful.
Digital Government
Tough times for 8(a)s
Procurement reform takes a bite out of minority firms federal IT sales
Digital Government
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.
Digital Government
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.
People
FirstGov Facts
The compilers of the FirstGov database discovered that the federal government has posted about 40 million pages on the Internet.
Digital Government
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.
People
CIO panel to cut scope of IT security review
A measurement tool intended to help agencies analyze the management of their information security programs is being scaled back
Digital Government