Kelley departs, says DISA should stay
Looking back over his three-year tour of duty at the Defense Information Systems Agency, Lt. Gen. David J. Kelley said he has tried to bring a warfighter's perspective to his work at DISA.
In many IT shops, jobs roll over with new year
In the wake of Jan. 1, expect to see some rounds of musical chairs within the government's information technology shops.
FBI uses computer forensics in case against Lee
FBI agents say they used computer forensics to discover irrefutable evidence that Wen Ho Lee transferred 806M of classified information from a secure Los Alamos National Laboratory computer to an unsecured workstation.
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Controversial list of jobs to outsource grows
Another 43 agencies have issued lists of jobs that could be outsourced, and challenges to both these lists and the first lists from 52 agencies have been filed.
Postal Service deploys call center management app
The NiceUniverse Suite 4.1 from Nice Systems Ltd. of British Columbia will help the Postal Service monitor the voice and desktop PC screen activity of USPS call center agents.
EPA workers receive honors for IT success
The Environmental Protection Agency and GCN honored 13 EPA employees for excellence in systems development, management and implementation. The employees received their awards at a recent GCN Forum luncheon in Washington:
PTO launches Internet filing for certain biotech patents
The Patent and Trademark Office has built a system that for the first time lets the agency receive application data for certain biotechnology patent filings via the Internet.
State and USIA brings Net to war-torn Kosovo
The State Department has taken the Kosovo Refugee Internet Assistance Initiative, which brought interactive information centers to eight refugee camps around Kosovo, back to the war-torn country.
LOC plans digital audio books
The Library of Congress has installed a custom digital recording studio and expects to produce its first experimental digital talking book early this year.
Group will promote GPRA
Remember the Government Performance and Results Act? Not enough agency leaders do, or so says Avon James, president of Robbins-Gioia Inc. of Alexandria, Va.
Micron sets up ASP hosting
Micron Electronics Inc. last month joined the application service provider market, charging a per-month fee to host various Microsoft BackOffice components for Web transactions and data warehousing.
DOD creates itty-bitty labels
The Defense Department is lending a hand and technical facilities to the Telecommunications Industry Forum to develop new symbols for marking and tracking telecommunications equipment.
Leo will succeed Reed as Agriculture's CIO
Agriculture secretary Dan Glickman has named Joseph Leo, a 15-year veteran of the department, as chief information officer.
Air Force will help redo DOD clearance system
The Defense Security Service has tapped the Air Force to help rework a problem-plagued security clearance case management system.
Qwest to rev up Energy's ESnet
The Energy Department has chosen Qwest Communications International Inc. of Denver for a seven-year, $50 million contract to build and run the next-generation Energy Sciences Network. The contract calls for Qwest to provide up to 1 Tbps of bandwidth by 2005.
NSA taps IT training vendor
The National Security Agency has chosen National Education Training Group Inc. of Naperville, Ill., as the primary content provider for information technology training on its FasTrac Learning System. The company received a $1.8 million contract in November.
Directives push online services
The Clinton administration is renewing its call for agencies to let citizens access government services online.
GSA to decide on depots' fates
The General Services Administration and union officials said they soon hope to reach a decision about whether to close eight supply depots.
New attacks multiply the threats to systems
A new type of denial-of-service attack showing up on the Internet dramatically increases the threat to even well-secured computer systems, security experts said recently.
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