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Thomas Temin

Ingram Micro upbeat on government sales

Ingram Micro reported strong government sales and revealed programs from five technology vendors to boost margins for its resellers in the government market at its GovEd Alliance conference today.

HP blade PCs to be offered to the channel

Hewlett-Packard will make available to the reseller and integrator channel a product that until now has been only available direct from HP.

'Governance' is at the heart of security lapses

A common thread runs through adverse events ranging from theft of a data-laden laptop to granting disaster housing money to prison inmates. That thread is poor data governance, according to the Data Governance Council.

Small businesses in line for Netcents contracts

Air Force has issued letters of intent to award contracts for the $10 billion Network Centric Solutions program to four small businesses.

DHS officials stand by big Accenture award

Hours before the House Appropriations Committee took action to block Accenture Ltd. from getting the U.S. Visit contract, Homeland Security Department officials were on the offensive.

Defense plans to replace command and control system

The Defense Department's Global Command and Control System will be replaced beginning in 2006.

SAIC: Come on in, the water's great

Science Applications International Corp. wants you to know it has built a tent so big that the company hopes to fit 2,500 vendors?including competing systems integrators ? inside.

Lawmakers: Adopt existing IT to fight terror

Congress is increasingly convinced that commercial software tools are adequate for the data mining and analysis requirements of fighting terrorism and protecting personal data from misuse.

Pure technology not the only answer to accessibility

Hewlett-Packard Co. yesterday demonstrated iCommunicator, a PC application that accepts live voice input, converts it to on-screen text, then converts the text to video images of sign language.<br>

First responders lack data-sharing tools, feds say

HERSHEY, Pa.?The homeland security effort needs an "interstate information expressway" paid for by the federal government but that can be used by state and local first responders to share information, Steve Cooper says.

Evans new federal IT leader

Karen Evans, Energy Department chief information officer, will replace Mark Forman as the head of federal IT.

Lorentz, CTO at OMB, to join DigitalNet

<font color="CC0000"> UPDATED </font color>Norman Lorentz will leave his post as the Office of Management and Budget's chief technology officer to join DigitalNet, a Northern Virginia IT company.

Air Force IT chiefs ponder outsourcing, wireless

One way to gauge IT trends in the Air Force is to listen to what the service calls its MAJCOM SCs. Translation: Top information systems officers at the major commands.

Navy's Munns: NMCI needs contractors

A leader of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program says new contractors are being added in four areas.

Financial systems on the fast track

Installing financial management systems could be a hot market area for systems integrators as at least four major agencies are expecting to spend more than $500 million over the next four years to overhaul their systems.

Symantec CEO says managed security services are coming

Outsourced managed security service contracts are the wave of the future for government networks, but the market is still nascent, Symantec Corp.'s chief says.<br>

OMB: Don't count that e-gov money yet

President Bush may have proposed a $100 million electronic government fund, but don't hold your breath waiting for the money to flow to your favorite Web project. That's the message delivered by Jasmeet Seehra, senior policy analyst in the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.