VA chief suspends new IT projects
APRIL 11—Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony J. Principi has ordered his department to put on hold all new information technology projects until officials develop a formal IT strategy.
How to stay out of trouble with ERP
APRIL 10—Before committing time and expense to an enterprise resource planning system, agency managers should ask vendors to hold up a mirror to the agencies, according to Ira L. Hobbs, the acting chief information officer of the Agriculture Department.
NSA official says industry lags on security
APRIL 10—The government is getting inadequate help from industry in securing sensitive but unclassified data, a National Security Agency official said yesterday.
New firewall will be embedded in NIC
APRIL 9—A new firewall developed with help from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will be available late this summer as a firmware download for 3CR990 10/100-Mbps network interface cards from 3Com Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif.
CSC set to award subcontracts for IRS projects
APRIL 9—Computer Sciences Corp., holder of the IRS Prime contract, is in final negotiations with three vendors for tax systems modernization subcontracts.
In a final act, Defense CIO Money approves use of Active Directory
APRIL 9'On his last day of work as the Defense Department's chief information officer, Art Money signed a memorandum encouraging DOD agencies to immediately begin deploying Microsoft Active Directory on networks throughout the department.
U.S. ranks third in e-gov, Accenture finds
APRIL 9—The U.S. government took third place behind the governments of Canada and Singapore in a broad-ranging Accenture study of electronic-government services around the world.
Navy site hacked by China sympathizers
APRIL 6—The home page of a Navy Web site was hijacked Thursday, apparently by supporters or agents of the People's Republic of China, which holds the United States responsible for the recent collision of a surveillance plane with a Chinese F-8 fighter.
Agencies still lax on systems security
APRIL 6'The government's failure to secure systems is leaving its computer infrastructure open to significant risk, witnesses told the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations yesterday.
New NIPC director prefers prevention to prosecution
APRIL 5—The new director of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center said he would rather prevent cyberattacks than throw people in jail after they've done harm.
Treasury looks to speed its financial reporting
APRIL 5'The Treasury Department is working to cut the time it takes to report its financial status from nearly three weeks to three days, department officials said.
Gartner report urges Bush to appoint a federal CIO
APRIL 3—A report on federal information technology policies by Gartner Inc. of Stamford, Conn., recommends that President Bush appoint a federal chief information officer, a cabinet-level technology czar who would report directly to the president.
IT investment requires partnerships, industry tells feds
APRIL 3—When it comes to innovation, even the best companies don't go it alone-and neither should the government.That's the message a gathering of some 50 agency executives heard yesterday at a conference on assessing technology investment risk, co-hosted by the General Services Administration and Post Newsweek Tech Media Group, GCN's parent.
GAO prods USDA on electronic filing
APRIL 2—Although the Agriculture Department has partially met its Freedom to E-File Act deadlines, the agency faces formidable challenges to implement fully electronic filing, the General Accounting Office has reported.
Web sites give computer security advice
APRIL 2—Federal systems administrators in search of advice on computer and network security can log onto three Web sites tailored to their needs, a security specialist said last week at the National High-Performance Computing and Communications Council's annual conference in Newport, R.I.
IRS sets its systems blueprint in motion
Systems modernization at the IRS is about to move beyond the blueprint stage and into construction.
Section 508 becomes this year's Y2K
Agencies' last-minute push to comply with Section 508 accessibility requirements by June 21 is producing a blitz of vendor initiatives and product modifications.
The Senate gets handy
For the Republican half of the Senate, personal digital assistants are supplanting bulky briefing binders.
White House panel proposes a systems infrastructure for biomedical R&D
The President's Information Technology Advisory Committee has called for a nationwide systems infrastructure for biomedical research.
BLM restarts modernization
The Bureau of Land Management is on the road again. BLM, which last spring halted new information technology projects until it had implemented investment and project management processes, has kicked off its National Integrated Land System project, said Hort Tipton, BLM chief information officer.
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