People
Failure to communicate
When the Pentagon released its new strategic road map last month that outlined how it plans to prepare for the hightech battlefields of the future, it confirmed what senior officials and experts have said for years: The U.S. needs its allies and coalition partners.
People
Legacy code decommissioned
The Air Force is embarking on a project to transform millions of lines of outdated though still widely used mainframe software code into a much more flexible Javabased system that is accessible via the Internet.
Digital Government
IT execs: Education is weak link
The information technology industry may be besieged by hackers and beset by software pirates, but the most serious threat it confronts comes from the U.S. education system, industry leaders told Congress last week.
Acquisition
Making 'mandatory' work
One of the characteristic features of the old order prior to procurement reform was the frequent requirement to buy computers from mandatory sources, such as the General Services Administration.
People
Delivering the goods
The Navy is teaming with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop a graduate program to help Navy personnel better manage how the military develops and deploys its defense weapons systems.
Digital Government
Clarity gives feds a look at the big picture
Clarity Visual Systems Inc. will introduce a new 67inch digital wall display later this week, in a move that the company hopes will make it king of the largeformat, data visualization market
Digital Government
Facing armed hackers
The age of Internet innocence could come to an abrupt end following attacks that are potentially far more destructive than software viruses.
People
U.S., Russia launch joint missile-warning center
Building on the success of a joint Year 2000 venture, Pentagon and Russian military officials have signed an agreement to build a hightech center near Moscow where both sides can monitor the globe for ballistic missile launches.
Digital Government
GSA fleshes out intrusion net plan
The General Services Administration is moving forward with its plans to build a governmentwide system to monitor agency networks for cyberattacks, but it is taking a slightly different tack than originally announced.
Digital Government
the circuit
Seems that IT guru Manny DeVera is having trouble getting his governmentwide reverse auction program launched at the General Services Administration.
Digital Government
Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 73
Mitsubishi is the gold standard in bigscreen TVs, so it makes sense that the company would work to expand its comparatively small presence in the computer monitor market. At $292, the Diamond Plus 73 is the company's effort to make the benefits of a flatscreen display available to customers on a budget.
People
FAA gives exec planning a lift
For the Federal Aviation Administration, succession planning makes practical business sense: It is important to the agency's future success.
People
Putting the success in succession
If your senior information technology executives leave for another job or retirement, do you know who will take their place?
Digital Government
House boosts info security funding
House OK's a $150 million increase in the fiscal 2001 Defense appropriations bill for information assurance and computer network security programs
People
Millions of dollars OK'd for crime-fighting IT
A House appropriations subcommittee approved funding to help fight drugs and violent crime, and for new tools to combat cybercrime and national security threats
Digital Government
Postal Service to deliver new systems
The U.S. Postal Service is making progress constructing an integrated 'Information Platform,' which is a core component of the agency's plan to conduct ebusiness
Digital Government
Revamped Internet portal allows citizens to discover N.D.
Done in-house, the site includes a state agency search engine, news, weather and road reports, employment listings, a children's page and online access to business-registration forms
Digital Government