DOD panel calls for regulatory framework
A panel of military experts last month called for the Defense Department to create a regulatory framework for all data mining in order to protect citizens' privacy.
IRS systems can track terrorists via tax data
As executive director of Benevolence International Foundation Inc. of Chicago, Enaam Arnaout accepted donations for humanitarian efforts overseas but diverted some of the funds to fighters in Chechnya and Bosnia.
The three levels of risk in IT project management
The CIO Council's IT Workforce and Human Capital Committee approved a draft of project management guidance for agencies to better determine the skills needed for IT initiatives.
OMB wavers on project managers
The Office of Management and Budget is backing away from a plan that would have required agencies to have full-time managers for every major IT project.
EPA's experience: 3 keys to sharing savings
Share-in-savings is the most complex type of contract, according to Judy Davis, the Environmental Protection Agency's director of acquisition management, who has had some experience with them.
Agencies warm up to share-in-savings deals
For nearly a decade, agencies have been allowed to cut their up-front costs on IT and other projects through contracting methods that let them share savings with vendors who develop valuable systems. Few have taken that approach.
Contract awarded, work on U.S. Visit begins
Developers of a federal system to track foreign visitors in and out of the United States have a lot of work ahead of them, but the project has taken a major step forward.
HUD activates Pay.gov for lender fees
The Housing and Urban Development Department is using <a href = "http://Pay.gov">Pay.gov</a> as a speedier and more efficient method of collecting fees at the Office of Lender Approval.
CIO Council says IT workers lacking skills
In a CIO Council survey, few federal workers said they have extensive experience in IT security, records management, privacy, e-government and enterprise architecture. The gaps in these skills are leading the council to begin working with the Office of Personnel Management to improve the IT workforce through hiring and training.
GAO: Weapons software policy has loophole
Defense Department acquisition and software security policies have loopholes when addressing some risks associated with using foreign suppliers to develop weapons system software, according to a General Accounting Office report.
Census Bureau now counts on SAN storage
A 4-year-old storage area network is keeping up with 4.6T of workaday data for 1,500 employees at the Census Bureau and soon will double its capacity.
White House adviser: R&D funding is up
Federal R&D efforts in areas such as high-performance computing, grid computing and next-generation microprocessors are receiving more direct money than ever before, a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology said late last month.
Archivists work on a PDF for the long term
Even documents based on open standards can become unreadable because of intellectual property disputes.
Data use vs. privacy
Federal officials are beginning to feel unexpected ripple effects from the data mining technology used in many government programs.Agency officials and lawmakers say that existing privacy laws may not be up to the task of protecting personal privacy from powerful analytical tools that probe personal information.
The lowdown on videoconferencing
<b>What is it?</b> The videoconferencing systems in this guide include PC-based desktop units, many of which have small speaker towers and camera platforms; set-top units with cameras built in that sit atop the video screen, typically a TV monitor, and all-in-one integrated systems in meeting-room units on rolling carts, recessed into walls, or, in some cases, in a flat-panel LCD.
Videoconferencing screen gems
We don't have Dick Tracy watches and holographic Star Trek displays just yet, but videoconferencing is finally beginning to live up to its decades-old potential.
Mac attack: PowerBook performs with the best
Because benchmark results from the Mac OS version of the GCN Lab's Alterion Corp. benchmark software differ slightly from those of the PC version, directly comparing the PowerBook G4 with the other notebooks in this review would literally be a case of Apples and oranges.
Jacks of all trades
Most notebook PC users do a little bit of everything, so they need a workhorse that can plow all kinds of fields. And notebooks today are lasting longer, which raises the chances of having to host demanding new applications.
DLA buys system to manage employee training programs
The Defense Logistics Agency has purchased software to manage training for 22,000 employees across the United States and 28 other countries, an application the agency expects to improve the readiness of its workers and bolster its ability to track expenses.
Smart cards are still stovepiped
The government is by far the nation's leading issuer of smart cards, but it still struggles to find cross-agency uses for them.
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