Love Bug bites DOD—but not too painfully
MAY 5—Although the ILOVEYOU virus yesterday wormed its way into many Defense Department computers via e-mail attachments, the resulting problems were minor, DOD officials said today.
White House calls for global VPN
To save money and streamline embassy management, the State Department is looking to the Internet to create a backbone network for the 30 federal agencies that maintain offices overseas.
CIO Council on track, members say
ORLANDO, Fla.'Members of the Chief Information Officers Council are at odds over whether the government needs an information technology czar and whether they need more control over their agencies' IT purse strings.
GSA awards 21 Millennia Lite contracts for high-end IT, mission-support services
The General Services Administration last month awarded multibillion-dollar contracts for information technology services.
After 30-year government career, Veterans Affairs' Gracey to retire
Harold F. Gracey Jr. says a fortune cookie helped soothe him after he made the decision to end his 30-year government career.
House lawmakers propose privacy commission to monitor use on Net
Spurred by concerns regarding the Internet, Reps. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.) and James P. Moran (D-Va.) have introduced a bill to establish a privacy protection commission.
By year's end, Justice plans to issue RFP for office automation upgrade
The Justice Department plans to complete an acquisition strategy by the end of fiscal 2000 for its Justice Consolidated Office Network II long-term contracting requirements, a top Justice Management Division official said.
Forest Service uses Web to lure short-term workers
Forest Service job applicants no longer have to peer through the trees searching for temporary work.
Commerce Department zeros in on digital effort's hurdles
The Commerce Department's chief information officer said his department's electronic-government effort will likely be the start of a trend.
USPS rolls out handheld data collection system
The Postal Service will roll out its handheld, synchronized data collection units nationally by the end of the fiscal year to monitor air carriers' performance and track mail, officials said.
IRS gets the go-ahead to spend $148.4 million on modernization
Congress has released $148.4 million from the IRS Information Technology Investment Account to fund the service's modernization efforts.
FBI supertechs gather evidence for service-denial hacking case
A joint FBI and Canadian law enforcement investigation led to the arrest of a suspect in the February denial-of-service attacks on commercial Web sites, the FBI said.
To draw users, FTS 2001 contractors keep adding new services
As the Federal Technology Service struggles to move agencies to its FTS 2001 long-haul telecommunications program, contractors Sprint Corp. and MCI WorldCom Inc. are upping the ante with new services.
NMCI could hit snag without DISA agreement
Navy and Defense Information Systems Agency officials will meet this week to negotiate an agreement for use of the Defense Information Systems Network for the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.
Basic steps would shore up security, officer says
SALT LAKE CITY'Basic security procedures could have prevented most of the serious breaches of Defense Department systems last year, the commander of the Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense said.
CIO Council is ready to start study on IT pay
ORLANDO, Fla.'The Chief Information Officers Council is set to move forward on a study of information technology pay.
OMB pushes agencies to make online attempt
Agencies need to move toward doing more business online unless there is a good reason not to, the Office of Management and Budget said last week.
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PACKET RAT
The Rat's recent liquidation of his holdings in rMachines Inc. left him and his family with a surplus of spending money [<a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol19_no9/community/1799-1.html"><i>GCN</i>, April 24, Page 50</a>].
CIO Council honors Reno and Young
Attorney General Janet Reno and Government Technology Services Inc. chairman Dendy Young won the Chief Information Officers Council's Azimuth Awards for 2000.
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