NPR launches Web site geared toward workers
JULY 10—While the Clinton administration works on its governmentwide Web portal, FirstGov.gov, the National Partnership for Reinventing Government has launched a third Web site that targets a specific audience: workers.
Balance shifts between Net PCs and Linux appliances
JULY 10—As Oracle Corp. and the New Internet Computer Co. of San Francisco released their $199 NIC Internet appliance today, one leading PC maker appeared to be pulling back on streamlined, Web-focused systems.
Army shuffles some systems brass
JULY 10—Some systems chiefs in the Army are changing jobs.
Army shuffles some systems brass
JULY 10'Some systems chiefs in the Army are changing jobs.
Government Computer News and Association For Federal IRM
TEMIN: Welcome to the National Press Club. I am Tom Temin,Editorial Director of GCN, as you know. It is nice to see a lot offamiliar faces. There's a couple of people I haven't seen in a while,and some I haven't met. So welcome.
WhatsUp Gold helps keep your net from going down
WhatsUp Gold may sound like something Bugs Bunny would say, but it's actually a program that monitors your network and lets you know when a network resource such as a fax server or Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol server goes down.
What apps are out there to help you?
What's an electronic signature, and how do you make one? It depends.
Agencies expect E-Sign law to spur e-gov
With a swipe of a smart card, President Clinton used the first digital certificate issued under a General Services Administration contract to electronically sign a bill that gives digital signatures the same stature as those scrawled with pen on paper.
DOD hustles on DMS
The military services are scrambling to move their most basic messaging from the aging AUTODIN to the Defense Message System to meet the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Sept. 30 deadline.
Executives see FirstGov as door to e-government
When is a front door more than just a point of entry?
NASA says better programming will be crucial to longer missions
NASA's ability to retain programmers who can validate software code is paramount to the space agency's ability to deliver successful future missions, NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin told Congress last month.
GAO: Energy must better guard travelers' data
Energy Department lab contractors traveling abroad have fallen prey to espionage attempts, including efforts to access data on the travelers' portable computers, the General Accounting Office reported last month.
Energy's security still unfit, report says
Like a wildfire that refuses to die, criticism surrounding failed computer security efforts have again seared the Energy Department.
Y2K center director calls its closing lost opportunity
The government missed an opportunity when it decided to dismantle the Year 2000 Information Coordination Center rather than use it as a model for other joint systems efforts, the center's former director said.
Purchase cards lay framework for e-commerce
The simple move of distributing 618,000 government purchase cards was one of the most significant measures in laying the groundwork for electronic commerce, a senior General Services Administration official says.
Commerce's digital efforts expected to continue after Daley's departure
The Commerce Department is expected to continue its move toward a digital environment following the departure of Secretary William M. Daley, who in the past year spearheaded its Digital Department initiative.
Application helps SSA meet the letter of the law
To make sure the letters and notices it sends out meet legal specifications, the Social Security Administration relies on a select-and-paste document application.
NASA denies that hacking endangered shuttle
A hacking incident that occurred three years ago at NASA has embroiled the space agency in a feud with British Broadcasting Corp.
NIH follow-ons feature leasing and lower fees
The National Institutes of Health next month plans to award follow-on contracts for two programs that have garnered $1.6 billion in sales.
Act's provision would postpone 508 deadline
A provision of the fiscal 2001 military construction appropriations bill Congress passed late last month would give agencies more time to make their systems accessible to the disabled.
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