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A net gain from outsourcing?
The Homeland Security and Interior departments plan to use Networx for the switch to managed network services.
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USPS awards mail automation deal
The U.S. Postal Service awarded an $874.6 million contract to Northrop Grumman Corp. to provide technology that will further automate mail processing.
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The tools of the master forecaster
Five business intelligence applications that can help agency managers track changes and make better decisions about their programs.
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DOD to build medical data storage model
The Defense Department and Microsoft will jointly develop a medical data warehouse prototype for the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application
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Diplomatic patches
The State Department undertakes an ambitious program to centralize software patching and improve its neglected IT security at posts around the globe.
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Geospatial standards
The Open Geospatial Consortium will develop geospatial standards for use on the Web.
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Oracle vendor purchase may boost agency strategic smarts
Oracle’s planned purchase of Hyperion may result in software that allows government customers to more easily merge their strategic plans with their operational data.<@SM>
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Best practices, better performance
Infrastructure library helps you clear hurdles of IT management.
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Agencies delaying move to Microsoft Vista
Several agency CIOs said they either see no business reason to move from Windows XP, or they are budgeting and planning for the transition in 2009 or beyond.
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System chiefs run for daylight
Change management is key to making sure applications will be able to spring forward
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Walter Reed tenants to get Internet access
An upgrade of the IT infrastructure at the Army medical facility follows an exposé of conditions there.
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Survey: Reliability more important than transportability to feds
Despite the government’s attempts to encourage teleworking, a recent survey of 388 federal IT managers revealed a greater need for network reliability than for transportability.
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Remembering MCI Mail
MCI did something no other company had done before when it connected its e-mail to the Internet.
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CIOs spring forward on daylight-saving fix
A 2005 law that changed daylight-saving requires major effort to patch computers.
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GSA considers establishing IPv6 program office
John Johnson said the agency is working on the idea to help guide GSA's compliance with the mandate to transition to the next-generation protocol.
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Tools for managed network services are coming together
Networx and the IT Infrastructure Line of Business Consolidation effort are poised to push agencies into outsourcing at least some of their networks responsibilities.
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McManus: Opportunities lie beyond IPv6 deadline
The changeover is not about the protocol or telling people that IPv6 offers an almost unlimited number of IP address, he said. It’s about what the protocol enables.
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Providers look for a level playing field
OMB has not decided how to resolve inequities in the 1932 Economy Act.
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