GAO calls postal e-commerce efforts unfocused
SEPT. 11—The Postal Service's forays into electronic commerce don't look encouraging, the General Accounting Office said in a report released last week.
Department heads face report card day
SEPT. 11—The federal government's 24 major departments expect to find out today whether they are making the grade on computer security issues.
VA pilot will take network security to multiple levels
The Veterans Benefits Administration is developing a network security program based on the idea that any single line of defense can be breached.
BIA suffers high-tech growing pains
Technologically, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has nowhere to go but up, the agency's new chief information officer says.
Census decamps army of silicon
Many of the 10,000-plus computers that powered the Census 2000 head count are now going the way of other great but temporary edifices.
Eizo thin client can lighten sysadmin's load
A thin-client network could make administrators fat. They wouldn't have nearly as much running around to do.
Former Y2K czar John Koskinen takes position in D.C. government
John A. Koskinen, former chairman of the President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion, today becomes deputy mayor and city administrator for the District of Columbia.
Changes in network OS market obscure the future of NetWare 6
The forthcoming NetWare 6 could be left in network limbo by the growth of competing network operating systems, plus what Novell Inc. chairman and chief executive officer Eric Schmidt has called the 'continued weakness in packaged software sales globally.'
FAR Council proposes one-stop portal to centralize procurement information
Federal officials have proposed a Federal Acquisition Regulation rule to set up a one-stop Internet gateway to information on procurements worth more than $25,000.
ICANN is on the up-and-up, GAO decides
The General Accounting Office has given a clean bill of health to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the Commerce Department's designated private-sector administrator of the Domain Name System.
Five agencies face hurdles on HR systems
In a review of five agencies that had deployed off-the-shelf human resources software, the General Accounting Office found severe delays and implementation problems.
FTS security chief Thomas Burke makes a move to CSC
Thomas R. Burke, assistant commissioner for information security at the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service, will join the private sector this month.
IRS readies follow-on program for Treasury systems support
The IRS expects that the Treasury Information Processing Support Services 2 program will become the services vehicle of choice for the Treasury Department's 14 bureaus.
Postal Service creates online purchasing program
The Postal Service projects its new internal Web self-service ordering application will reduce the average transaction cost per purchase'currently $150 to $300'to as low as $10. The return on investment is estimated at 300 percent.
GAO: Boosting security would also benefit financial systems
Federal officials throughout government are studying security plans in the wake of oversight reviews that carped on agencies' apparent inability to safeguard information.
MAA telecom transition begins to pick up steam
The General Services Administration's Metropolitan Area Acquisition program for local telecommunications has expanded to a total of 34 contracts worth an estimated $3.7 billion in 18 cities.
CIO Council initiates a study of federal IT pay
The Chief Information Officers Council will commission a National Academy of Public Administration study of federal information technology workers' pay.
Education is an early adopter of Win 2000
The Education Department will start migrating its client PCs to the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system this fall.
Energy CIO John Gilligan will rejoin Air Force
The Energy Department has lost its chief information officer.
Unanswered questions linger for Army portal
The Army's request for proposals for the massive, $600 million Army University Access Online portal came down to the wire last week with issues unresolved.
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