NIHnet engineering award goes to SRA
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $5 million, one-year contract to SRA International Inc. to support the NIHnet WAN, which has 25,000 users across the country.
State will pilot a worldwide intranet
The State Department in February will award a contract for building a pilot version of what will eventually become an online work environment for nine agencies worldwide.
FBI puts police chiefs in the security loop
The Justice Department will let police chiefs from cities, counties and other municipalities apply for national security clearance that would put them in the information-sharing loop during national emergencies.
Eads is IRS e-commerce director
The IRS has appointed James R. Eads Jr. director of e-commerce for the Large and Mid-Size Business Division's international programs.
Feds are lax in record-keeping, NARA finds
Because many agency employees are unsure whether the electronic information they create constitutes official records, much of the data fails to make its way to the National Archives and Records Administration, according to a new report. Only records such as case files tend to be well-managed.
Defense funding shoots up, NMCI takes a cut
The House and Senate sent the $343.3 billion fiscal 2002 Defense Authorization Bill to President Bush last Friday, with an additional $30 billion in funding over last year to combat terrorism, modernize weapons and technology, and protect the homeland.
Task force will work to plug leaks with technology
Attorney General John Ashcroft last week set up an interagency task force to find administrative, legislative and advanced technological means of preventing leaks of classified information.
More individual taxpayers use e-filing
The IRS has happier customers among individual taxpayers who filed their 2001 returns online, according to a survey.
IEEE patches flawed security standard for wireless LANs
The IEEE Standards Association has adopted a fix for the flawed Wired Equivalent Privacy protocol for wireless LANs.
USPS hires Lockheed to improve mail reader system
The Postal Service has hired Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Distribution Technologies division to upgrade its computer reader system to increase the percentage of mail that is automatically read and processed.
Professors hash out emergency response, cyberterrorism strategies
Although the potential for cyberterrorism continues to grow, terrorist groups now use the Internet more to distribute information about attacks rather than to carry them out, Georgetown University information security expert Dorothy E. Denning told a crisis management group yesterday.
KPMG will develop financial system for HHS
The Health and Human Services Department has awarded a one-year, $12 million contract to KPMG Consulting Inc. of McLean, Va., to plan and design a unified financial management system.
Education will put student loan services online
The Education Department's Office of Student Financial Assistance Programs next year will offer services such as student loan payment and payment deferment online at <a href="http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP">www.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP</a>.
GSA prepares to upgrade Firstgov
The Firstgov.gov portal will get a new look before the General Services Administration overhauls it. GSA released a request for proposals earlier this month to find a vendor to conduct focus groups and develop an interim redesign of the site.
Interior loses Internet service following court mandate
Most Interior Department agencies began their first full week without Internet service today, as they complied with the Dec. 5 order of U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth to disconnect their systems from the Internet. The judge's order stemmed from longstanding litigation over mismanaged American Indian trust funds and the vulnerability of the trust fund databases to hacking via the Internet.
GSA to solicit HUBZone governmentwide contract
The General Services Administration plans to help agencies meet the governmentwide Historically Underutilized Business Zone contracting goal. The agency, through the Federal Technology Service, announced it would release a request for proposals for a HUBZone governmentwide acquisition contract next month.
Navy training center tags coursework with XML
The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division will have the course content of its electronic classes tagged in Extensible Markup Language and moved onto the Web.
FAA seeks comments on en route modernization
The Federal Aviation Administration is asking companies to comment on its En Route Automation Modernization plan.
COUNTY LINES
Arlington County, Va., fire chief Edward Plaugher can detail every square mile, building and land feature of the Washington, D.C., suburb, which covers 26 square miles and has a population of 189,000.
How Sept. 11 unified state, federal efforts
State and local emergency management agencies have worked for years with their federal counterparts to help prepare for and mitigate the consequences of natural disasters, but today they face a continual, nationwide terror threat.
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