The inauguration goes techie
Whooping it up for a new president, the federal information technology industry held its own ball'dubbed the e-Government & Technology Inaugural Gala'on a snowy night in Washington Jan. 20.
People on the Move
Alan P. Balutis is leaving the National Institute of Standards and Technology to become executive director and chief operating officer for both the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils and the Industry Advisory Council.
FBI employee arrested on porn charges
A 30-year-old FBI technician from Woodbridge, Va., was arrested on a child pornography charge last month.
Spec released for trusted PC platform
The Trusted Computing Platform Alliance has released Version 1.0 of its specification for PC subsystems that perform security functions.
Water stats flow toWeb
A new Web calculator has cut 'from two or three days to 10 seconds' the time it takes to estimate the water flow in a Massachusetts river or stream, said Geological Survey hydrologist Kernell Ries.
Katzen urges CIOs to push for FirstGov
The former deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget urged career federal employees to forge ahead with the FirstGov portal to online government information.
5 million items on Library of Congress site
The Library of Congress' Web site, at <a href="http://www.loc.gov">www.loc.gov</a>, has reached its goal of 5 million items online under the National Digital Library Program.
HP network router forwards documents
The paperless office suffered another setback last month when Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a new kind of network router'for documents.
Peace Packs will carry IT
Twenty-five Peace Corps volunteers in 15 countries will receive computers, peripherals and Internet access for the communities they serve.
Site catalogs federal e-gov initiatives
Who's doing what on the Web? The Chief Information Officers Council likely has the answer in its online database of more than 1,300 federal sites.
FAA's STARS program is getting off the ground at last
FEB. 1—Nearly five years after the Federal Aviation Administration envisioned its new radar airport approach system, the flight agency may finally be seeing STARS.
CALENDAR
12 IT Forum with SSA's Bill Gray
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Shawn McCarthy does a nice job of outlining some of the issues surrounding the use of instant messaging services in his column 'Agencies that permit IM services will face third-party concerns' [<a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol19_no33/com/3286-1.html">GCN, Nov. 20, 2000, Page 33</a>]. I'd like to pose a few more questions.
EDITORIAL
Enterprise Architecture 1.0 is an apt name for the latest IRS modernization blueprint. In adopting it, the agency says it is only at the threshold of updating its systems. In fact, modernization projects already under way and conforming to the last so-called final blueprint, Blueprint '97, will have to be redone to bring them in line with Blueprint 2000, as 1.0 is also called.
THE 50 STATES
The state has contracted with SecurityLink from Ameritech Corp. of Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., to provide electronic security monitoring systems.
CTOs keep wary eye on security measures
FEB. 1—Agency chief technology officers face a growing list of security threats without any sure-fire solutions, two CTOs said yesterday at the ComNet trade show in Washington.
OF THE PEOPLE
Even though the rate of growth in the national economy appears to be slowing, I can say with pleasure that as of Jan. 15 the economic picture brightened for many of the federal government's information technology employees. But to be candid, I must also acknowledge that not everyone is jumping up and down with glee.
Web conferences go far to save on travel, training
Web conferencing is helping federal officials substantially lower training costs, and it is uniting federal workers in far-flung offices.
Handhelds branch out as network clients
Handheld computers a few years ago whistled, beeped and stored a small amount of data with little more functionality than a calendar.
Simulation exec calls for shared Web sites
The chief executive of a flight simulation company advocates creating Web sites on which contractors and military agencies can exchange information daily and receive progress updates via e-mail.
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