Modernization

Committee to suggest ways to easier records management

The two biggest challenges agencies face are the inability of legacy systems to manage records and designing processes on the front end for new systems.

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Giving XML more muscle

New XML appliances offer to take a load off overworked agency servers

Modernization

Reservists, DARPA, vendors fill technology gaps in a pinch

Military reservists in Iraq face new challenges every day, and IT workers among them are no exception.

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DOD wants standardized platform for weapons use

The Defense Department’s transformation initiative has “built up a bow wave of change,” Air Force Maj. Gen. Marc “Buck” Rogers said at last week’s Joint Warfare 2004 conference in Arlington, Va.

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AT&T wins IRS work

The tax agency will pay $54 million over five years for a network that will replace a mixture of older platforms.

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Xerox hopes Common Criteria boosts sales

The company recently became one of only two makers of copiers, printers and office machines to get the certification.

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Satellites, from the ground up

After a recent move to new quarters in Ashburn, Va., Veloris A. “Sonny” Marshall III and his 25 employees are back at work packing satellite receiving equipment into hardened “flyaway” cases for shipment from Dulles International Airport to federal sites around the world.

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Qwest unveils VoIP

Qwest's new voice-over-IP service will become available to federal agencies later this year.

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Cisco targets city wireless

The Cisco Metropolitan Mobile Network provides one network for multiple wireless technologies.

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InfiniBand group plans Linux standard

OpenIB expects to announce a schedule for its product delivery by the end of September.

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Managing servers

This summer, Opsware Inc. officials will introduce a new version of the company's server management software, Opsware System 4.1...

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Sizing up coded message options

Feds face numerous ? and nuanced ? encryption schemes for securing e-mail

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Satellite orbits around server management

A new product from Opsware Inc. may help agencies remotely manage servers.

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the Pipeline

No net. Don't say cheese.

Modernization

Network monitoring comes of age

NetQoS analyzes almost all the important types of WAN traffic.

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HHS adopts standards to speed health IT

Health and Human Services secretary Tommy Thompson wants his department to implement electronic health records ahead of the president’s 10-year goal.

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Broadband goes rural

Companies use loans to bring high-speed wireless Internet access to rural areas

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Putnam, Davis seek changes to Clinger-Cohen

Reps. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.) and Tom Davis (R-Va.) last week added proposed language to four sections of the 1996 Clinger-Cohen Act, which governs how agencies make their IT investments.

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Defense medical records system is rolling out ahead of schedule

Defense Department officials say military units are already ahead of schedule in meeting a recent mandate by President Bush for federal agencies to keep electronic health records of personnel and their families.

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OMB targets desktop hole in cybersecurity

Agencies are failing at the first line of defense against cyberattacks for lack of minimum desktop configuration security standards. And the Office of Management and Budget is trying to patch the gap, said Karen Evans, administrator for e-government and IT.