Digital Government
What's it worth to you?
At what point does it make more sense to pay $200 for desktop software rather than $20 for a competing product?
Digital Government
FCW turns new page
This issue of Federal Computer Week you hold in your hands is the last tabloidsize edition FCW will publish.
People
'Virtual' tower to ease airport traffic
Moffett Federal Airfield, Calif. The blanket of fog cutting visibility around San Francisco International Airport as seen from an air traffic control tower looked real.
Acquisition
AMS, Ariba team for e-procurement
In what may be the first of many deals like it, integrator American Management Systems Inc. and Internet commerce vendor Ariba Inc. have teamed up to provide a complete electronic procurement solution to federal government users.
Digital Government
High-end servers crack the glass house
The federal government data center, once the exclusive domain of the mainframe, increasingly is inhabited by highend Unixbased servers and Microsoft Corp.
People
DISA office secures spot in training
Training has surfaced as a critical component of protecting federal information resources against modernday cyberattacks, and one resource for information security training lies in the Defense Information Systems Agency's Infosec Program Management Office.
Digital Government
Smithsonian makes an art of Web posting
In an effort to move art from the wall to the Web, the Smithsonian Institution has begun to capture digital images of its artifacts and photography collections to post on the Internet
Digital Government
TeleSweep ferrets out vulnerable modems
Army information technology managers last week urged senior leaders to speed up the vexing process of granting security clearances to contractors and permanent personnel assigned to work on missioncritical systems.
Digital Government
Inacom retreats from fed market
Computer reseller Inacom Corp.'s decision last week to sell its federal government business shows just how tight the federal IT market has become since the advent of direct sales and procurement reform, forces that market watchers say are squeezing profit margins and toughening competition in the channel.
Digital Government
Sometimes seeing is not believing
Since the early 19th century, people have come to accept what they see in photographs as reality. The adage that the camera never lies has come to be accepted as historical fact, buttressed by the faith taken daily by all who read a newspaper or magazine that what is depicted in photos actually happened.
Digital Government
Tapping into astronauts' health data
Moffett Federal Airfield, Calif. The blanket of fog cutting visibility around San Francisco International Airport as seen from an air traffic control tower looked real.
Digital Government
Feds leave doors open for hackers
After repeated break-ins through the same door, a shaken business owner likely would get the message and buy a sturdy lock, a big dog or a loud alarm.
Digital Government
Security game: Playing for keeps
Would you be interested in a way to train network administrators about security that is fun and inexpensive? The Defense Information Systems Agency has produced a new interactive training CD that might fit the bill.
Digital Government
Technology at core of Va. education, business
Virginia Gov. James Gilmore introduced a twoyear, $48 billion budget last week that features technology as a cornerstone for the state's future in education and business development.
Digital Government
GSA, CIO Council program produces star students
The first class of students graduated this month from a twoweek program designed to train senior federal managers on the nuances of performance and management rather than the nuts and bolts of the contracting process.
Digital Government
Lee indictment ignites polygraph, security debate
The Energy Department has issued new counterintelligence regulations in the aftermath of a security breach at a national laboratory that call for polygraph examinations of hundreds of agency employees, including highlevel political appointees who have access to classified information and computer systems.
Digital Government
Pa. Gov. Signs Electronic Transactions Act
Gov. Tom Ridge last week signed the Electronic Transactions Act, making Pennsylvania the first state to enact the recommended version of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, which gives electronic signatures the same legality as those on paper.
Digital Government