Calendar
October 15-18. Software Engineering Symposium. Washington. Contact the Software Engineering Institute; Web: <a href="http://www.sei.cmu.edu/symposium">www.sei.cmu.edu/symposium</a>.
OF THE PEOPLE
Call it a Day of Infamy. Call it a Day from Hell. Whatever you call it, that Tuesday will be a day each of us will remember for the rest of our lives. It will be a day that changed our lives in ways that remain to be determined, the day when our nation was violently attacked in the most despicable way imaginable.
Videoconferencing paid off Sept. 11
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's investment in videoconferencing technology paid off in spades after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11.
Backup, storage units have a hold on data
The GCN Lab recently looked at portable backup and storage products for individual workers [<a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol20_no20a/reviews/4670-1.html">GCN, July 23, Page 38</a>]. This review goes a step further, to enterprise storage and backup devices for medium-sized bureaus or field offices.
Before you mine, refine
Data mining is amazing technology. It lets you dig through mountains of information to turn up nuggets of previously unknown, but valuable, relationships in data.
INCOMING
Now hear this. Nonjudicial punishment hearings will be held in the case of eight Marine Corps officers implicated in a Defense Department inspector general's investigation of falsifying V-22 Osprey maintenance records.
DOD takes heat for procurement system troubles
The General Accounting Office criticized Defense Department procurement in a recent report, citing the department's failure to meet commitments for its Standard Procurement System and for program delays that have pushed back full implementation of the system almost four years.
Defense reopens public Web sites
The Defense Department reopened public access to all of its Web sites earlier this month after weeks of patching systems and upgrading routers that were vulnerable to the Code Red worm.
CD library sorts evidence
Mark Weil's fingers have been ink-smeared for nearly four years from sorting through case files on everything from child exploitation and prostitution to computer security and e-mail threats.
CIOs search for prot'g's
The Chief Information Officers Council has begun posting assignments for its mentoring program, designed to help federal information professionals enhance their job skills.
CYBER EYE
Novell Inc. last month issued a patch for what it called a 'security issue' in its GroupWise 5.5 Enhancement Pack and GroupWise 6 e-mail and collaboration software. The company advised all users to install Padlock Fix immediately but did not say what it fixed.
Microsoft dots its Net with XML for data applications
Microsoft Corp.'s .Net use of the Extensible Markup Language could make government information accessible to the thickest and thinnest clients, company officials say.
On Camera
The State Department's videoconferencing studio can set up a two-hour meeting across continents with a $500 phone call instead of a $10,000 bill for travel plus jet lag.
Editorial Cartoon
There's some dispute over how government should fund electronic-government initiatives. The administration is proposing a three-year fund. Capitol Hill lawmakers meanwhile are unwilling to pony up appropriations in line with President Bush's proposal.
ANOTHER VIEW: Voices from the Hill
Editor's note: Dozens of members of Congress issued statements condemning the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Here are excerpts from a few of them.
EDITORIAL
Cyberwarfare. Global information grid. Networked sensors. Joint interoperability. Situational awareness.
Most feds envision migration to Win 2000
Here's an easy-as-pie forecast: Microsoft Windows network operating systems will continue to expand their presence in federal IT shops.
INTERVIEW: John R. Garman, OAO's space man
John R. Garman is no stranger to managing computers from afar. In his early 20s, as a NASA flight controller at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Garman watched over the guidance computers in the Apollo command and lunar modules as they sped to and from the moon.
Navy workers lost most Pentagon offices in crash
One thousand Navy personnel were displaced after a hijacked jetliner crashed into the Pentagon last Tuesday. The employees have already relocated to office space in Arlington, Va.
Justice office leads XML standardization effort
The Justice Department's Office of Justice Programs is leading an effort to develop standards for using Extensible Markup Language within the law enforcement and criminal justice communities.
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