New FTC Web site logs in fraud reports
Feeling swindled? Shoot a report straight to the Federal Trade Commission through its new Consumer Sentinel public Web site, at <a href="http://www.consumer.gov/sentinel">www.consumer.gov/sentinel</a>.
Privacy groups decry DOD Web tracking
The Electronic Privacy Information Center recently filed a Freedom of Information Act request for all documents related to the Defense Department's purchase of reports on students' Web-surfing habits.
Horn introduces bill to split OMB's duties
Feb. 15—Stating that management within the Office of Management and Budget is a myth, Rep. Steve Horn (R-Calif.) introduced a bill Wednesday to split the agency's duties.
CALENDAR
<b>22-23 Federal Telecom</b><br>Conference. Washington. Contact Suss Consulting Inc.; phone: 703-734-7050; Web: <a href="http://www.telestrategies.com">www.telestrategies.com</a>.
FEDERAL CONTRACT LAW
In its waning days, the Clinton administration promulgated a controversial new set of debarment regulations. Even if the Bush regime rescinds the new rule, its evolution is a lesson in how government procurement gets caught up in other issues of public policy.
Navy employs online form to help retention efforts
The Navy has posted on the Web a questionnaire that could help the service determine ways to improve retention of its enlisted personnel and officers.
OS alternatives
I've experimented with PC operating systems ever since the early days of the Heathkit H89, Apple II Plus and Commodore Amiga. I remember spending way too many hours laboriously typing in code from magazines.
Layer 3 switches take the fast route
In the best of all possible networks, large volumes of data flow from high-end workstations and data centers, and e-mail messages with complex multimedia attachments flit about effortlessly, all without bringing transmissions to a crawl.
DOD plans to boost its software management this year
Defense undersecretary Delores Etter told a group of software and electronics engineers that the Defense Department needs to increase its software capabilities.
System lets pilots train together together
KIRTLAND AFB, N.M.'Pilots preparing for battle can network their simulators with nine other Air Force bases and Defense Department units around the country, officials at the service's Theater Aerospace Command and Control Simulation Facility said.
Bush extends life of information technology advisory group
FEB. 14—The President's Information Technology Advisory Committee will live on for another three months, or until June 1, under an executive order signed by President Bush earlier this week. The High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 had only authorized the group's existence through Feb. 11.
SSA vows to go slow with online apps
FEB. 14—Burned the first time, cautious the second. That might be the motto for the Social Security Administration's online service efforts.
FileMaker rolls out app for Palm devices
FileMaker Inc. is betting that users of its desktop database management software will want to run it on their handheld computers.
Supercomputer sharpens views from space telescope
The Air Force's Maui Space Surveillance System has boosted its computing capacity to identify fast-moving space debris while it is still in telescopic view.
INTERNAUT
Should court records across America be available on the Internet? Many already are, but the effects of such postings are drawing scrutiny.
What's HSI, and why do NOAA and Air Force use it?
HSI is in the news.
Cray plans to build commodity server clusters that will run Linux
Cray Inc. of Seattle by midyear will join the rush to commodity server clusters for the open-source Linux operating system, company officials said last month.
Web portal delivers info, services
The Air Force has made it easier for 775,000 military and civilian personnel to access information they previously had to stand in customer services lines or wait days'sometimes weeks'to obtain.
Database does double duty for blue pages site
Improving the U.S. Blue Pages Web site'the online complement to federal listings in telephone directories'turned out to be quite a trick.
POWER USER
Never have I felt as isolated'neither by Appalachian snow nor power failure'as I did recently when I lost Web access.
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