Vendors See Desktop Outsourcing Surge In 2000

With year 2000 software remediation work mostly in their rear-view mirrors, federal agencies are expected to flock toward desktop outsourcing in 2000 as they try and get their arms around information technology costs.

Huge Intranet Project Stirs the Pot for IT Programs

The Department of the Navy is about to roll out procurement details for its omnibus Navy/Marine Corps Intranet, a multibillion dollar information technology project designed to provide secure voice, video and data services to all service members and employees of the Navy and Marine Corps.

Commercial Ways Find Favor in Public-Sector Practices

The name of the game in the public-sector market is bringing agencies solutions and applications that have been proven in the commercial marketplace, whether it be what the government is buying or how it is buying it.

Seams Can Show When Moving to an Open System

Like many other areas in the information technology sector, the market for open systems management products has been bullish for many years and continues to grow rapidly.

Training Gains a Web Hold For Agencies in Need

A new wrinkle to the debate about the emergence of information technology haves and have nots was added with the release earlier this year of a survey by the influential American Society for Training & Development.

From Pre-K to Gray, the Internet Is All the Rage

While e-commerce garners most of the headlines, a quiet revolution is sweeping through the education scene, from high schools all the way to the graduate level. And momentum is building.

Big Blue's Distributed Learning Program Yields Big Payoff

Boasting the largest number of registered users (100,000) and the greatest number of courses (10,000) for an intranet application dedicated to employee training, IBM Corp. is stacking up impressive numbers in the enterprise battle against rising education costs.

Internet and Education: Some Sites To Explore

As politicians, policy-makers and parents clamor to improve education, and fascination continues with the Internet and World Wide Web as delivery options, initiatives for schools across the nation abound. Five Web sites that are off the beaten path include Activeworlds, Blackboard, JOBTRAK, netLibrary and LittleBrother.

Integrator Partners: A Line to Success

Walk into any site run by Anteon Corp., and you'll find just about everyone outfitted with lapel pins that state simply: "Team." Though employees of Anteon partners do not always choose to wear that particular accessory, the team culture extends to them as well.

Eastman Goes Indirect with Vredenburg

For years, Eastman Software defied its own business model by selling directly to the federal government. Although it used resellers in its other vertical markets, the Billerica, Mass.-based developer of enterprise imaging, work-flow and COLD (computer output to laser) products was not eager to pass the buck when it came to dealing with major clients, such as the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Social Security Administration and the departments of Housing and Urban Development, State, Treasury and Veterans Affairs.

Video Teleconferencing: An Evolving Enterprise Necessity

Among all the Next-Big-Thing babbling you overhear at Internet conferences and workshops, rarely does the topic of video teleconferencing, or VTC as it is known, strike your eardrums. Part of the reason is the virtual transition stage we inhabit of voice over IP, where the mantra echoes: audio, audio, audio.

Government Agencies Probe Depths of Mobile Computing

Surveying the uneven terrain of mobile computing at this juncture in the network revolution of the '90s is akin to standing beside Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they set out to solve the latest dastardly crime. What comes to mind is that famous refrain of Holmes: "The game's afoot."

Defense Distribution Gets Professional Revving Up

The Defense Logistics Agency tapped a program management specialist to help it streamline the military's supply distribution system during the past few years and boost efficiency.

New SCM Tools: Streamline Program Management

Bulked up with new technology, the Hercules C-130J airlifter that ferries U.S. troops and equipment to combat and humanitarian missions is faster and smarter than its predecessors.

Agencies Move to Outsource Network Management

Federal agencies are turning to outsourcing to help manage both their networks and network security to keep pace with increasing demands on their infrastructures for electronic business applications and Web-based data access.

Enterprise Messaging Goes to the Next Level

like most systems, services and processes touched by the popular protocol named IP (Internet Protocol), enterprise messaging continues to morph in new and surprising ways. With innovations like Internet facsimile now passing through the standards review and improvements in equipment for voice-over-IP gaining ground, enterprise messaging will take on an increasingly critical role in the organization.

Small Business Administration Pushes To Revitalize 8(a) Program

Washington Technology's annual list of the top 25 information technology 8(a) companies uses data compiled by Federal Sources Inc., a market research firm in McLean, Va.

NIST New Field For New Security Standard

In slow, measured movements, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is moving toward a new encryption standard. It will amount to an improved system for protecting sensitive federal data that can be used well into the next century. It should also provide both consumers and business users of the Internet a sufficient level of confidence in the security of transmitted information.

Agencies Tame the Data Storage Beast

For the past year, storage area networks have been all the buzz within the data storage industry. Promising unprecedented levels of flexibility, scalability and manageability in data storage, SANs have captured the attention of information technology professionals in business and government alike.

Project Pipeline Accents Growing

Creating a departmentwide information technology architecture and infrastructure at the Department of Justice is setting the stage for enhanced interoperability throughout the organization and beyond, to state, local and international law enforcement agencies.

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