Sunday, February 13, 2005

Federal Process Improvement Systems. The U.S. federal government is a BIG enterprise. With that in mind, OMB and FEAPMO have created the Federal Enterprise Architecture Management System (FEAMS). FEAMS is supposed to help agencies during the budget process discover other e-government initiatives within the federal enterprise that might be leveraged by a given agency. In a large enterprise, this is very important. Agencies often do not know what their peers are doing which limits the development of cross-agency and enterprise initiatives. The latest quarterly federal report cards came out last week. It shows that almost every agency is making progress in eGov. However, only State and AID made enough progress to improve their overall egov status grade. Both moved from red to yellow. In conjunction with FedBizOpps, the federal government has created the Business Partner Network. BPN.gov refers to itself as the "single source for vendor data for the Federal government." BPN hosts the Central Contractor Registration system (CCR). Check out this flash training on FEDLOG, a logistics support system that has increased search productivity by a factor of 60. Quite effective. An Assistant Secretary of State gave this address yesterday on carbon sequestration. AGRC and ITS are supporting several regional carbon sequestration projects. This report from the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum provides some interesting background information. [David Fletcher: eGovernment] 10:02:46 PM     Web Services. Business Week has a special report on Web services: "Web services refer to a set of programming standards used to make different types of software talk to each other over the Internet, without human intervention...Unlike the ASPs, which were building out massive data centers and basically running rental services for other people's software, today's Web-service companies design their software from the ground up to be delivered over the Internet as a service. That's a big difference. It means their business model can scale, and the bigger they get, the more profitable they become because they're building on that initial research and development investment." [E M E R G I C . o r g] 9:13:45 PM     Infocus: Apache 2 with SSL/TLS: Step-by-Step, Part 1. This article begins a series of three articles dedicated to configuring Apache 2.0 with SSL/TLS support, in order to ensure maximum security and optimal performance of secure web communication. This part introduces key aspects of SSL/TLS and then shows how to compile and configure Apache 2.0 with support for these protocols. [SecurityFocus News] 8:54:46 PM

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