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DID YOU HEAR
Laff riot? Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center users can no longer view the Web site <a href="http://www.space.com">www.space.com</a>, which is being filtered out as forbidden entertainment. Shucks, aside from a $7,000 virtual-reality race car, some gruesome science fiction and news about NASA's 'Vomit Comet' aircraft, <a href="http://www.space.com">www.space.com</a> looks no more entertaining than, say, <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov">www.whitehouse.gov</a>.
AFCEA chapter steps out for NIH charity
The Bethesda, Md., chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association is known for events such as informational breakfasts and other programs that address ongoing federal information technology issues.
PTO tech center receives library awards
Patent and Trademark Office information centers recently won two awards from the Federal Library and Information Center Committee, and two Defense Department employees shared the award for top librarian.
Federal sites score with business magazine
The Census Bureau and the Securities and Exchange Commission led a list of seven federal Web sites included in Entrepreneur Magazine's '100 Best Web Sites for Small Business.' The list appears in the April issue of the magazine and online at <a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/Home/HM_Static/1,1845,dbapp_bestsites_index,00.html">www.entrepreneur.com/Home/HM_Static/1,1845,dbapp_bestsites_index,00.html</a>.
People on the Move
Bruce Brody has joined the Veterans Affairs Department as associate deputy assistant secretary for cybersecurity, a new position.
Customs chooses IBM for $1.3 billion ACE contract
APRIL 27—The Customs Service has awarded its $1.3 billion, 15-year prime modernization contract to IBM Global Services.
ITAA: Final 508 Disability Rule Could Delay Gov't Purchases
APRIL 27—The final rule intended to make information technology accessible to federal workers with disabilities will likely delay the government procurement process, according to the Information Technology Association of America.
New devices do content filtering
New types of network defenders can analyze packet content fast in all seven Open Systems Interconnection layers.
USDA's Lighthouse maps data onto Geological Survey graphics
Using the Extensible Markup Language, an Agriculture Department pilot overlays soil survey data on top of map graphics from TerraServer, a Geological Survey application developed in conjunction with Microsoft Corp. in 1998.
Rackmount PCs boost security
An Austin, Texas, company keeps desktop PCs off of desks by racking them inside the data center.
Heavy traffic travels to federal Web sites
Federal Web sites attracted 1.3 percent more traffic in February than they did last February.
GSA says no to Qwest's protest of award
The General Services Administration has denied a protest by Qwest Communications International Corp. challenging the agency's award of contracts extending the FTS 2000 program.
GAO spreads the blame for FTS 2001 delays
Delays in moving telecommunications services to FTS 2001 contracts have cost agencies millions of dollars and delayed the introduction of new competition for long-haul services, according to the General Accounting Office.
A router for four, please
The Xrouter Pro'a 10/100-Mbps, small-office router from Xsense Connectivity Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif.'has four ports to share one cable or digital subscriber Internet connection among four computers.
New tools keep users connected anywhere
Workers in the field will be able to stay networked next year using tools ranging from ballpoint pens to satellites.
@INFO.POLICY
Imagine it's a few years before the turn of the century. Scientists have produced a technological miracle with almost unlimited promise for improving health. A new way of examining human tissue permits the collection of information never before available. Physicians can diagnose diseases years before they can be found by conventional methods. This new technique even allows for predictions about hereditary illnesses.
Energy joins Celera on supercomputing project
Energy Department and private-sector researchers who raced each other to map the human genome are now pooling their expertise to develop superfast computers and algorithms for biological research.
CYBER EYE
If anyone is wondering when information warfare will rear its ugly head, it's already happened.
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