NASA awards SEWP III contracts to eight vendors
JULY 31—NASA has chosen eight companies for the third round of its Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement.
How the GCN Lab torture-tested rugged gear
The GCN lab employed a 14-foot bass boat, refrigerator-freezer and a hot car trunk to test ruggedized equipment for the Product Review article, "Some rugged units strive to survive." Read how the Lab tested each piece of equipment in the review.
Prepare for Code Red to rear its head again
JULY 30—If you thought the Code Red worm was behind you, think again. The federally funded CERT Coordination Center reports that the self-propagating malicious code, which infected as many as 280,000 computers in a matter of hours on July 19, could come back to life at 8 p.m. EDT tomorrow.
Navy continues NMCI tests; no accord with Defense over more rigorous review
JULY 30—The Navy's Fleet Information Warfare Center in Norfolk, Va., is using commercial hacker tools to try to break into a Navy-Marine Corps Intranet network operating center, the lifeblood of NMCI.
CSEAT will review agencies' security for free
JULY 30—The National Institute of Standards and Technology has set up a computer security expert assist team, called CSEAT, to improve agencies' infrastructure protection and share best security practices.
Larry Ellison unabridged interview with GCN
During the recent E-gov conference in Washington, Larry Ellison, chairmanand chief executive officer of Oracle Corp., sat down with GCN editorialdirector Thomas R. Temin. Here is the unedited transcript in which Ellisonexpounds on everything from national databases to whether programmers havedates.
Copyright Office sets sights on paper-free registrations
The Library of Congress' Copyright Office now handles about 5 percent of its workflow entirely online. No paper is involved except for the final copyright certificate mailed for legal reasons, and even that soon will become optional.
EPA takes a people approach to e-gov
Many electronic-government efforts attempt to fulfill the 'for the people' and 'of the people' parts of democracy. The Environmental Protection Agency this month took a crack at 'by the people.'
Digital data downpour
The explosion of electronic data across government is rocking the once staid world of records management.
NWS will touch up Doppler radar
The premier Doppler radar system for tracking severe storms will get an upgraded data acquisition subsystem over the next few years.
INS works overtime on a plan to clear backlog
On the heels of upgrading an antiquated application processing system, the Immigration and Naturalization Service is expanding a program to speed the approval of work permits for foreign nationals.
Customs to check cargo online
The Customs Service has begun testing the International Trade Data System, which will streamline paperwork for trucks crossing the border in, Buffalo, N.Y.
Hill enters wireless spectrum fray
The Defense Department is finding itself up against competition for the radio frequency spectrum it uses for wireless communications.
Thrift board sues AMS over systems revamp
Alleging 'reckless and willful misconduct,' the agency that handles $100 billion in assets for federal retirement accounts has fired its record-keeping system contractor.
Citizen communication will nourish e-gov, panel says
The next step in electronic government will be to transfor it into an "e-democracy," in which the public uses the Web to get direct access to the government, Mark Forman this month told the Council for Excellence in Goverment.
For the record, NARA techie aims to preserve
Question: How are the government's electronic records going to be preserved over multiple generations of technology so that future archivists and historians can access them?
Army portal to deliver messaging apps
The Army will roll out instant messaging next month as part of its Army Knowledge Online intranet, using an encrypted Web application that can operate across multiple platforms.
Defense fights off Code Red virus attacks
The Defense Department temporarily blocked public access to its Web sites last week until a threat posed by the Code Red computer virus subsided.
Report of 184 missing PCs has FBI under gun
Attorney General John Ashcroft has ordered a departmentwide review to account for Justice Department equipment after the FBI reported hundreds of weapons and notebook PCs'some containing classified material'missing or stolen over the last decade.
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