Presidential advisory panel calls for governmentwide CIO
MAY 19'A draft report from the Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee calls for the appointment of a governmentwide chief information officer and says an IT czar would help promote cross-agency projects.
State Department memo emphasizes vulnerability of notebook PCs
MAY 18—A State Department inventory revealed that the agency is missing 15 of its 1,913 unclassified notebook PCs, officials said.
Lab employees prepare to return to work
MAY 18'Some Los Alamos National Laboratory employees may return to work as early as Monday if firefighters continue to contain the wildfire that threatened lab facilities for two weeks, officials said.
Lab employees prepare to return to work
MAY 18—Some Los Alamos National Laboratory employees may return to work as early as Monday if firefighters continue to contain the wildfire that threatened lab facilities for two weeks, officials said.
New Web site lets citizens offer input to Congress
MAY 18'An interactive Web page that debuted today offers citizens a chance to tell Congress what they expect from electronic government.
New Web site lets citizens offer input to Congress
MAY 18—An interactive Web page that debuted today offers citizens a chance to tell Congress what they expect from electronic government.
Cover the basics to get the most from a multichip server
If you are plunging toward a server purchase but don't want to waste any of your organization's dollars, keep some basics in mind.
Multichip servers
If you're shopping for an enterprise-level multiprocessor server, you'll notice a new player with a familiar name: Intel Corp. The giant chipmaker, dominant in the PC and small server markets, is challenging RISC technology with multichip architectures built around Pentium III and Pentium III Xeon processors and Intel boards.
Pacific Fleet's San Diego ATM network precedes NMCI
In a dress rehearsal of sorts for the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, Pacific Fleet officials are connecting 7,500 PCs in 68 organizations throughout San Diego to create a base area network.
Airport database goes on Web
Defense Department officials have gone one step beyond the Federal Aviation Administration to improve a system that gives pilots data on conditions at foreign airports.
BRIEFING BOOK
Air Fox. Col. Neal I. Fox will soon become director of the Air Force's primary source selection organization for commercial technology products.
For e-business, USPS licenses PKI service with Cylink's NetAuthority
The Postal Service has licensed public-key infrastructure technology from Cylink Corp. for new electronic business services.
INS rolls out an interactive voice response system
The Immigration and Naturalization Service's new nationwide toll-free telephone service will route more than 1.5 million calls a year via a networked interactive voice response (IVR) system.
Agencies have access to new satellite services center
General Dynamics Corp. is building a satellite operations center on the Las Cruces campus of New Mexico State University for the expanding satellite communications market.
Navy network sails on ATM
At the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Port Hueneme, Calif., a fast network used by weapons engineers is changing from Fiber Distributed Data Interface to an asynchronous transfer mode architecture.
INTERNAUT
If your agency deals in classified or sensitive information, you probably wage an ongoing war against Internet hackers. The danger isn't so much from hackers' creativity as much as it's due to managers' failures to seal security holes, establish policies for information sharing on intranets and public Web sites, and protect the data physically.
INTERVIEW: Daryl W. White, Interior's CIO
Daryl W. White has been the Interior Department's chief information officer since March 1998. Before that, he spent five months as the department's deputy CIO.
Mobile users can connect cheaply with IBM modem kit
Sometimes the lowest-cost choice works just fine. Nowhere is this more evident than in the portable data communications market.
Lab Notes
License and registration, please. Want to know more about a particular domain name or find out information about a company if you have only a uniform resource locator? As long as it's for legitimate purposes, you can see the domain registration information for any URL you plug in at <a href="http://www.allwhois.com">www.allwhois.com</a>.
Internet Explorer rules on Mac and PC
New Web browsers are sprouting like dandelions in spring, and the GCN Lab has dug up several good performers, a couple of promising newcomers and a disappointing once-favorite.
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