Data from classified system fuels legal debate in Wen Ho Lee case
Attorneys representing former Energy Department scientist Wen Ho Lee will be able to enter classified information into evidence during their client's trial.
GAO to INS: Revise architecture plan
The Immigration and Naturalization Service's IRM Office continues to receive criticism despite efforts to improve the agency's systems management.
PROFESSIONAL CALENDAR
Luncheon speech. Washington. Contact Government Computer News.
Senate report calls for improved reporting of GPRA information
Agencies must improve performance plans, according to a Senate Appropriations Committee special report examining the impact of the Government Performance and Results Act.
Congress revisits GPRA's use within government
Rep. Jim Turner stumped witnesses at a recent hearing when he asked for an example of Congress using the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 to make funding decisions.
Federal law officers tap database to help find missing children
Postal inspector Paul Groza has helped solve cases of exploited and missing children since 1978. For the past three years, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children databases have been an invaluable investigative tool.
GSA honors Federal Technology Service workers
The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service and GCN honored 12 FTS employees for excellence in systems development, management and implementation.
Education aims to bolster security after criticism from IG, GAO
The Education Department received failing grades in recent months from its Inspector General's Office as well as the General Accounting Office because of its inability to secure its systems.
FBI will upgrade NICS for better efficiency, uptime
Concerns about gun safety, congressional pressure and heat from firearms vendors are pushing the FBI to improve its National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Benefits administration wants to embrace thin-client computing
AUSTIN, Texas'To speed delivery of new applications to its 13,000 users, the Veterans Benefits Administration wants to head back to the future.
Patient records system to connect DOD, VA and IHS
Defense Department, Veterans Affairs Department and Indian Health Service medical facilities can share patient information through a pilot program under way at sites in Anchorage, Alaska.
Veterans Affairs aims to integrate its services
For the typical Veterans Affairs Department worker, pulling together a veteran's case file is like trying to make a cake with just flour.
Justice will have university review Carnivore
The Justice Department will ask a university to review the FBI's controversial e-mail filtering application'a plan that privacy advocates already are criticizing.
IG calls Space Station notebook code faulty
The software being developed for astronauts aboard the International Space Station to monitor environmental, power, communications and tracking systems is unreliable, according to NASA's assistant inspector general.
DISA certifies SGI Irix system under DII COE
Defense Information Systems Agency officials have certified a second Posix operating system under a program that promotes interoperability among command, control, communications, computers and intelligence applications.
DLA awards $389.8m modernization contract
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded its Business Systems Modernization contract to Andersen Consulting of Chicago.
Microsoft Exchange 2000 takes groupware to the next level
Microsoft Corp.'s upgrade of Microsoft Exchange Server from Version 5.5 to 2000 is much more than a name change. The new features the company has added represent powerful improvements in the groupware.
Slim PCs pare down functions but not performance
Compact, manageable PCs are becoming the norm in offices that want to minimize disruption of users' work styles by maintenance or updates.
ENTERPRISE COMPUTING: New Products
SLR tape libraries go modular - Tandberg Data Inc. of Simi Valley, Calif., has put scalable linear recording tape drives into a new series of automated tape libraries.
Jacada app connects Palm OS devices with legacy mainframes
A company that makes legacy-to-Web middleware has extended its product to the burgeoning mainframe-to-handheld sector.
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