Border security law requires data sharing, visa readers for tracking foreign visitors
Immigration, law enforcement and intelligence agencies must integrate databases and share information under border security legislation signed into law last month.
Patriot law puts federal eye on biometric use
Although the U.S. Patriot Act encourages agencies to spend IT funds for authentication security, they should avoid using these new technologies too quickly, both industry and federal officials warn.
FBI will revamp IT as part of shake-up
As part of a comprehensive shake-up of the FBI, director Robert S. Mueller III last week announced that a technology upgrade program is one of the bureau's Top 10 priorities.
DOD participates in e-learning standards effort
Defense Department brass expect the recent approval of draft guidelines for how students receive online training coursework to further the department's goal of establishing common standards for e-learning systems.
Training site goes to head of the class
It's graduation time for the National Learning Center. The Web site, at <a href="http://www.nlc.gov">www.nlc.gov</a>, began letting government IT employees take training courses online as a test, but the project now has the official imprimatur of the Office of Management and Budget's e-government program. OPM e-government project manager Norm Enger is geared up to introduce more e-training to the federal government.
Calendar
<b>24-27 E-Gov 2002</b>Conference. Washington. Contact E-Gov; Web: <a href="http://www.e-gov.com/egov2002">www.e-gov.com/egov2002</a>.
Of the people: Good business cases are worth the effort
Without solid business cases for IT investment, the rush to e-government will not pan out as program managers envision. If they and CIOs can't document benefits, costs, project plans and effective project leadership, it will be impossible to unify and simplify government services.
Wisconsin's road projects go the right way
Wisconsin's Department of Transportation oversees a construction program that has laced the Badger State with 112,362 miles of state highways, roads and streets as well as 13,300 bridges.
Desktop clients shift into the gigahertz gear
The desktop client is the center of the office universe, the focus of a network and the one tool that most workers truly can't do without.
Retired Coast Guard commandant joins TSA
Retired Coast Guard Commandant James M. Loy will be the deputy undersecretary for transportation security and chief operating officer of the Transportation Security Administration, a newly created position.
Enterprise software boosts efficiency for project management
The Air Force Computer Resources Support Improvement Program is getting a better grip on the projects it manages and the funds those projects need because of a customized enterprise software package the agency began testing this year.
New destroyers will be tech-laden
The Navy wants to make systems in its new class of destroyers so sophisticated that they can spot targets using advanced sensors and fire their guns automatically at distances up to 100 miles.
DD(X) deal draws protest from blue team
Bath Iron Works, a unit of General Dynamics Corp., has filed a protest with the General Accounting Office challenging the Navy's decision to hire Northrop Grumman Corp. to design the $2.9 billion DD(X) networked warships.
Panel spells out the ABCs of CRM
'Some people view us as not being in the customer-service business because we are not for profit,' said Nancy Johnson, executive director of the Defense Logistics Agency's Defense eBusiness Program Office.
Cops rev training with 3-D slides
They got no kick in Champaign when police officers booted up tired old Microsoft PowerPoint educational slide shows'that is, not until the Illinois city's police department started adding 3-D talking characters to the slides.
@Info Policy: E-government + Microsoft = Passport to trouble?
How does your agency identify people online? I am not talking only about user names and passwords. I mean real authentication and authorization. Agencies need to be sure who people are before conducting business with them online.
Haycock is named to connect e-gov projects
The Office of Management and Budget earlier this month created a chief architect position to manage its 24 e-government projects and work on the overall federal IT framework.
Carnivore responsible for terrorist e-mail mishaps, FBI says
The FBI's controversial Carnivore system for intercepting e-mail malfunctioned when it was installed in 2000, hampering an antiterrorism investigation, according to internal FBI documents.
NTIS posts online directory of government research
The Commerce Department's National Technical Information Service is developing an online catalog to help scientists and citizens find government research results.
Info security a low priority for FBI, report finds
A study of Robert Hanssen's exploits at the FBI faults the bureau for a 'pervasive inattention to security' and a culture that views information security as an impediment.
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