DOD's top IT office will outsource systems work
The Office of the Secretary of Defense plans to outsource all common applications and information security services for its 5,500 unclassified users.
DOD deals create security net
The Defense Information Systems Agency last month awarded 11 contracts for systems security services.
DLA navigates EMall hurdles
Upgrading an online mall used throughout the Defense Department is like competing in a hurdle race.
Court tells White House how to restore e-mail
U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth last week laid out steps that the White House must follow to reconstruct e-mail messages not backed up on the Executive Office of the President's Automated Records Management System.
Compact PC video device uses high-bandwidth connections
The $599 ViaVideo device from Polycom Inc. takes advantage of high-bandwidth connections to supply videoconferencing through a PC's Universal Serial Bus port.
Coast Guard searches for seaworthy notebooks
The worse maritime conditions are, the more urgent the Coast Guard's services become.
Clinton: Disabled can fill IT jobs
In an executive order marking the 10th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, President Clinton last month directed agencies to use information technology to let disabled workers telecommute from home and off-site workplaces.
Clinton administration will make final changes in cybersecurity plan
The nation's information infrastructure is more secure than it was two years ago when President Clinton issued a mandate to secure critical systems, the White House's Jeffrey H. Hunker said last month at the e-Gov 2000 trade show in Washington.
CYBER EYE
One of the toughest questions in securing information systems has always been: How much security is enough?
CIO OUTLOOK
A 2-year-old intergovernmental information technology project is close to producing significant and far-reaching results.
BRIEFING BOOK
Not yet. The Air Education and Training Command will have to wait until at least 2002 to launch an Air Force PC outsourcing initiative.
Air Force tests phone firewalls
The Air Force is studying the use of telephone firewalls to improve security and management of its phone systems.
Agencies use low-cost tools to enhance sites
Low-cost, tried-and-true site design programs can catapult a Web page beyond the ordinary, without tedious Hypertext Markup Language coding.
After site shutdown, EPA seeps back onto the Net
Nearly five months after the Environmental Protection Agency had to sever its connection with the Internet due to security concerns, the agency is taking information assurance more seriously, the EPA's information technology security chief says.
@INFO.POLICY
Do tractors have privacy rights? That isn't quite as absurd a question as it sounds.
NSF funds unclassified terascale computer
AUG. 4—An unclassified, National Science Foundation-funded supercomputer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will host civilian research on a scale previously available only to defense and weapons scientists at national laboratories.
GSA's Pugliese to retire
AUG. 3—Federal Supply Service commissioner Frank P. Pugliese will retire this month after 28 years with the General Services Administration.
Defense supercomputer starts modeling ocean currents
AUG. 3—One of the world's fastest supercomputers is starting to carry out simulations of ocean currents and high-tech materials for Defense Department researchers.
Army seeks single portal for servicewide education
AUG. 3-Army Industry Day in Washington on Wednesday drew hundreds of representatives of educational institutions and online learning providers to advise the service on shaping Army University Access Online.
Iowa gives handheld PCs to fifth-graders
Alex looks like a typical 12-year old, riding his bike to school, a lunch bag sticking out of his backpack. But he is toting something else that fewer than 100 kids in the country have: a free, school-supplied handheld computer.
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