Cyber eye: Can a policy please everyone? Maybe
The president's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board sought the broadest possible consensus for its National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace by inviting numerous individuals and organizations to contribute. Those who were expecting to see a thoroughbred were disappointed by the draft released last month.
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With 70 members, the Financial Services Committee is the second largest committee in the House, and public seating in its hearing room is limited.
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By the numbers
Control, alt, hands up! The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics has reported that police departments in the 62 largest U.S. cities have dramatically increased their use of computers.
Letters to the Editor
I was moved by Page 30 of your special Sept. 11 issue of GCN, 'In Memoriam.' However, I noted with some distress that a name was absent. Bryan Jack, a civilian employee of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, was on duty that day, and was among the victims at the Pentagon. I can only assume that he was overlooked because his duties placed him on the plane that morning.
If you build it . . .
If you want to hear a fresh perspective on enterprise architectures, catch a few minutes with Fred Thompson. Thompson is the assistant director for consulting and marketing in the CIO Customer Service Consulting Group at the Treasury Department. His basic message is that without the right people, an agency will never establish a relevant and long-lasting enterprise architecture.
TSP record-keeping system delayed again
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board last Friday said it would hold off implementation of a new record-keeping system indefinitely until data processing problems are resolved.
Sniper victim was on FBI's cybercrime team
FBI employees today reacted with shock and grief to the sniper murder of their colleague Linda Franklin, 47, an analyst in the Cyber Division.
CAP site gets easier for disabled to use
Defense Department and other federal employees with disabilities can get new services from a user-friendly Web site just launched by DOD's Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program, at <a href="http://www.tricare.osd.mil/cap">www.tricare.osd.mil/cap</a>. The layout was redesigned to let users and managers 'customize their personal search for program and contact information,' CAP director Dinah Cohen said.
For many, price keeps LCDs out of the picture
Are high prices keeping an LCD monitor off your desk? You're not alone.
TSA sets phased-in IT approach
'Exhilarating and exhausting' is how Patrick R. Schambach describes working at the fledgling Transportation Security Administration, where he is an associate undersecretary and CIO.
FBI works to keep data systems current
The FBI has launched a five-year, $200 million program to upgrade systems at the Criminal Justice Information Services Division in Clarksburg, W.Va.
Congress improves at managing e-mail
The Senate last month decided not to renew its contract with EchoMail Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., for e-mail filtering software. Instead, IT managers will depend on the Senatewide deployment of Microsoft Exchange and Outlook to better manage the 88,000 e-mail messages the Senate receives each day.
Microsoft readies XDocs for XML
Microsoft Corp. next year will release an Extensible Markup Language component called XDocs for its market-leading Office suite. XDocs will have an Office-like interface and will integrate with Web services, a main focus of the Office of Management and Budget's enterprise architecture push. XDocs will support any customer-defined XML schema, according to Microsoft.
GCN and Washington Technology appoint new publisher
Tom Trezza Jr. has been named senior vice president and publisher of Government Computer News and its sister publication, Washington Technology. The promotion was part of a broad reorganization of the papers' parent company, Post Newsweek Tech Media of Washington. Alec Dann was named senior vice president for Internet publishing, and Thomas R. Temin senior vice president for editorial. All three report to David Greene, president of PostNewsweek.
NSF expands computing grid project
The National Science Foundation is expanding its distributed grid-computing project to encompass a fifth high-performance computing center.
The week's top stories forOct. 7 through Oct. 11
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OMB sets interagency transaction standards
The Office of Management and Budget has no idea how much money agencies exchange among themselves for goods and services, but that's about to change. OMB last week issued two sets of standard business rules for intragovernmental and certain fiduciary transactions.
Navy envisions integrated information systems
The Navy's road map of the future is guiding it toward integrating its information systems and testing new technologies, pushing them faster to the fleets, said Vice Adm. Richard W. Mayo, commander of the Naval Network Warfare Command in Norfolk, Va.
GSA releases E-Travel draft solicitation
After a two-month delay, the General Services Administration earlier this week released a draft request for proposals for a governmentwide online travel management system. GSA plans to roll out an online booking engine'the first iteration of the E-Travel project'by December.
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