FTC, agencies target growing Internet fraud
Nearly half of the fraud cases pursued by the Federal Trade Commission in the past fiscal year were Internet-related, according to a report on the efforts of federal agencies and state attorneys general to combat scams.
USPS offers secure e-mail to agencies
The Postal Service last week introduced an Internet-based secure messaging service that lets government agencies secure and authenticate internal electronic correspondence.
California county's UPS helps keep it in communication
JAN. 18—It was business as usual for the Santa Cruz County emergency communications center yesterday, despite the hour-long blackout ordered by Gov. Gray Davis on the Northern California community. The center dispatches calls for the sheriff's office, Santa Cruz police, and all fire emergencies and ambulances in the county.
NCSA's Linux supercomputer to test Itanium technology
JAN. 18—The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has ordered a new Linux-based cluster that will test the large-scale use of Intel Corp.'s 64-bit processor technology.
GAO puts work force woes on high-risk list
JAN. 18—The General Accounting Office yesterday added strategic human capital management—that is, the work force'to its biannual list of high-risk problems.
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FEDERAL CONTRACT LAW
For the first time in 30 years, the Labor Department has rewritten the affirmative action rules for government contractors.
ERP redefines State's HR practices
The State Department has witnessed a transformation in its human resource procedures since implementing an enterprise resource planning system last April.
Three personal firewalls repel the invaders
Broadband is a two-edged sword for network administrators who must keep field offices, industry partners and telecommuters connected to agency headquarters LANs.
Evolving standards expand wireless reach
Wireless technology is changing the way the world works'or, at least, where it works. Digital pagers, cellular and Personal Communications Services (PCS) phones, personal digital assistants and handheld PCs, and wireless notebook PCs have freed many users from their cubicles and offices.
Air Force survey seeks and helps solve network problems
When the Air Force began surveying network infrastructures at its bases around the world, engineers found some misconfigured servers that were causing lots of problems.
Navy knowledge project focuses on methods
A knowledge management pilot at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in San Diego recently received an award from the Navy chief information officer's Knowledge-centric Organization Implementation Assistance Team for advancing electronic government.
Farm Service Agency adds services to its Web site
JAN. 17—The Farm Service Agency today unveiled a redesigned Web site that includes agency forms and other features.
INTERVIEW: John C. Mears, voice response expert
John C. Mears became president and chief executive officer of Microlog Corp. in November, having been co-president of the Germantown, Md., company along with Steve Delmar since last February.
Tivoli software assesses Web site's performance
Two software packages from Tivoli Systems Inc. monitor Web site performance.
New security products get up close and very personal
The security emphasis at the recent Comdex trade show was on new types of software and services for managing heterogeneous security structures.
Matlab 6 now includes a browserlike interface
Matlab 6, the latest version of the technical computing application from MathWorks Inc. of Natick, Mass., has a new desktop interface with a workspace browser, searchable Hypertext Markup Language help and a command history window showing past sessions.
INTERNAUT
It's always fun to kick off the year with a polemic or two. This year, several technology issues could start fights in federal, state and local governments.
USDA steadily cultivates e-gov
Implementing an easy-to-use electronic filing and retrieval system was one of the Agriculture Department's major electronic-government achievements last year.
Feds show off bulk-up plans for supercomputing muscle
The government's pursuit of supercomputing, which has provided the world's six fastest computers, is still picking up speed.
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