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- Here's a bit from a recent fcw.com report by Josh Rogin: Published on Feb. 13, 2007 NORFOLK, Va. -- At the Naval Network Warfare Command here, U.S. cyber defenders track and investigate hundreds of suspicious events each day. But the predominant threat comes from Chinese...
- Tags: Sun, Security, Enterprise Policy, Development
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- Daylight Saving Time: Top ten DST personal survival tips
- Daylight Saving Time: Top ten DST personal survival tipstimeQuick fix. Change your time zone on Sat. and back again in AprilIF YOUR CORPORATE CLOCKS ARE OFF FROM THE WORLD CLOCKAll of your business transactions will be time labeled incorrectly.Your credit card transactions depend on the correct time information.A big...
- Tags: Financial services, Top-ten DST, survival tip, Daylight Saving Time
- Discussion threads 2007-03-08
- Huh? PDF standardization decision has nothing to do with Microsoft?
- Huh? PDF standardization decision has nothing to do with Microsoft?MS might have something to do with it......but since PDF is widely implemented by developers other than Adobe and there's little or nothing Adobe can do to reverse this, even if they wanted to, it makes sense for them to at...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, PDF standardization decision, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe PDF, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., ISO
- Discussion threads 2007-01-29
- Study: the public sector 'gets' SOA, or at least 'shared services'
- A reader, Tim Bertrand of HP-Mercury, begs to differ with comments from a recent article in which the VP of a major defense contractor says the industry and defense department is struggling to determine a sound business case for SOA, recently covered in this blogsite: "I couldnt disagree more with...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, SOA, shared service
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- Defense doesn't rest with SOA
- Defense doesn't rest with SOADefense READYING FOR SOA initiatives...I couldn't disagree more with David Bryan's comments in the FCW story. I can name 30 MAJOR Federal Programs moving their architecture toward SOA, and at least 10-20 more who have it in the plans for 07/08. No business case...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, SOA
- Discussion threads 2006-11-13
- Defense doesn't rest with SOA
- A new report indicates the Defense Information Systems Agency -- a huge systems buyer -- may be skeptical about all the SOA hoopla. The article in FCW quotes David Bryan, vice president of the Northrop Grumman Defense Group, as saying that the industry is struggling to determine a sound...
- Tags: General, Business ROI, Case Studies, DISA, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-11-10
- Dept. of Ed laptops stolen
- Oops, they did it again! Two laptop computers were stolen from the US Dept. of Education. This is the second time in less than a month, reports FCW. A department contractor acknowledged the two laptop computers were stolen Aug. 11 from its Washington, D.C., office on K Street. The...
- Tags: personal data, laptop computer
- Blog posts 2006-08-30
- Local IT businesses score big Katrina contracts
- It's not just the big contractors who are doing well from the Katrina rebuild. Some small IT businesses are also winning federal contracts, reports FCW. Firms like DataQuest Software Services, DyKon Computer Help Center and Engenius Consulting were among the Small Business Administration-certified 8a companies whose business actually...
- Tags: DyKon Computer Help Center, Dataquest Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-06-07
- FCW: Time for GSA to come clean with financials
- In a hardhitting editorial, Federal Computer Week calls on GSA to come clean with full and open accounting. In the absence of solid information about GSA's practices, FCW's Chris Dorobek writes, "Perception is pitted against reality, and in this case, it is no contest. Perception wins because people don’t have...
- Tags: U.S. General Services Administration
- Blog posts 2006-05-09
- Public (digital) printer quits
- In the midst of an effort to bring the Government Printing Office into the digital age, Public Printer Bruce James announced he is quitting. He has been in office three and a half years, although he promised to stay in the job for five, Federal Computer Week reports.James told FCW...
- Tags: GPO
- Blog posts 2006-04-13
- Sun's McNealy decries proprietary Frankenstein
- Government agencies have created a "mess" by cobbling together best-of-breed solutions from proprietary vendors, Sun CEO Scott McNealy told the FOSE trade show today, Federal Computer Week reports. "This has created a mess," he said. "Where do you come up with these configurations? You've...
- Tags: Government Agencies
- Blog posts 2006-03-08
- U.S. Navy orders Bill Gates to install SPARC/Solaris with Sun Rays
- Between now and Dec 30th, inclusive, I plan to blog only every second work day unless, of course, something of unusual interest crops up. In keeping with Mr. Editor Person's interest in top ten lists, the six entries this will produce will have a common theme: "2005: the missing headlines"....
- Tags: Navy, Microsoft Windows NT
- Blog posts 2005-12-19
- Time to feds to develop RFID standards: report
- The IBM Center for the Business of Government has released a report PDF calling for the federal goverment to take the lead on making RFID a widespread technology. The report details three federal case studies, at the Defense Dept., FDA and Dept. of Agriculture, where RFID is being used to...
- Tags: RFID
- Blog posts 2005-11-03
- Secure, removable hard drives?
- How's this for office efficiency? Dept. of Justice employees frequently use two different laptops - a classified machine and an unclassified one. That's expensive, unwiedly and increases the risk of loss (its twice as easy to lose a laptop when you're carrying two.) Now the department's inspector general has issued...
- Tags: computer, Justice, removable hard drive
- Blog posts 2005-10-10
- OMB 'throwing out' current Core.gov, starting over
- Core.gov - the federal government's repository of reusable components - is undergoing a major revamp, according to Dick Burk, the government's chief architect at OMB, Federal Computer Week reports. While Core.gov holds a lot of components, those applications that can be linked with others to complete business transactions,...
- Tags: CORE.GOV, Dick Burk
- Blog posts 2005-09-15
- Is China attacking military computers? Maybe not.
- Earlier this week, FCW.com published a story claiming that the Chinese government was engaged in a cyberwar with the U.S. military. The article quoted former Army chief of staff Jack Keene: "The Chinese were doing this on a regular basis. That’s a given. They’re very aggressively getting capability. It’s common...
- Tags: Chinese Government, computer, CHINESE
- Blog posts 2005-08-25
- Medicare agency stands to save big by automating call center
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS in Baltimore receives 32 million calls a year, an average of 102,000 a day on Mondays, the busiest day of the week. With the cost of personal phone service running anywhere from $6.85 to $15 per call, CMS is turning to technology...
- Tags: content management system, call-center
- Blog posts 2005-08-24
- Texas signs up industry leaders to advise $200m fund
- Texas Gov. Rick Perry has appointed a blue-ribbon team of high-tech industry figures to advise the state's $200 million Emerging Technology Fund, FCW. com reports. The $200 million Emerging Technology Fund, created by law two months ago, is aimed at improving research at universities, helping start-up...
- Tags: Emerging Technology Fund
- Blog posts 2005-08-23
- China launching constant attacks on military networks
- U.S. military computer networks are under constant attack. And the rate of attack is skyrocketing, from 300 in 2003 to more than 75,000 last year. "Our adversaries are able to inflict a substantial amount of harassment and a measurable amount of damage upon DOD communications networks at practically no cost...
- Tags: attack, Army
- Blog posts 2005-08-23
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