OPM revamps long-term-care insurance Web site
The Office of Personnel Management has launched a revamped Web site for the Federal Long Term Care Insurance program, the largest group long-term-care insurance program in the country.
Tech brief: Tangent protects surfers
Tangent Inc. of Burlingame, Calif., last month released the latest version of its Web Hawk content filtering software.
Final rule mandates use of FedTeds
Agencies posting sensitive but unclassified information on the Internet relating to procurements now must use the Federal Technical Data Solution system, an online temporary repository of technical procurement data that is linked to the FedBizOpps.gov Web site.
Net-enabled command program moving ahead
The objective of the program is to provide a comprehensive suite of information services that will enable warfighters to make better, faster and more coordinated decisions on the battlefield.
Open-source intel takes on new importance
New forms of intelligence-gathering'including the availability of open-source information on the Internet'are becoming increasingly important for fighting terrorism and may even reduce the need for more traditional collection efforts, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service.
Intelligence as a service
Business Objects Inc. of San Jose, Calif., will offer its Crystal Reports business intelligence software over the Internet, at <a href="http://crystalreports.com">crystalreports.com</a>.
OPM seeks wireless Internet at FEI campus
The Office of Personnel Management issued a solicitation for installing wireless Internet service at the Federal Executive Institute's campus.
Mike Wash | Government IT is becoming content-centric
The Government Printing Office has been a print-centric agency focused on printing and disseminating printed publications. But the demands of the information age have forced GPO to rethink its approach to creating and disseminating government documents.
Online Extra | Meet the SOA Builders
While we haven't seen a lot of Web services-based deployment in the government sector yet, there is certainly no shortage of vendors offering tools that would help agencies move to component-based architectures, both as integrated platforms and as stand-alone applications.
At your service
Over the past year, publicly available government information has been appearing all over the Web'on Google Maps. When the search giant posted its own mapping Web service, it did something unusual. It published the application programming interfaces'the code that delivers maps, pointers and associated features'to the Web page.
Robert Gellman | @Info.Policy: 72-hour rule could foster a web of deceit
A coalition trying to curb the passage of legislation without effective public notice is pushing to have Congress post each bill on the Web for 72 hours before it can be brought up for debate on the floor.
Wyatt Kash | Editor's Desk: Pure serendipity
Technology breakthroughs are often not rooted in the invention of new devices as much as they are in the exploitation of new insights into the way people and processes work. All those white ear buds sprouting from commuters' ears offer one case in point.
Ray Ozzie | Behind Microsoft's Groove-iness
Little more than a year ago, something happened that used to happen frequently in IT: Microsoft Corp. snapped up a promising company. But Groove Networks Inc. was more than just a collaboration software developer; it was increasingly well known for its government deployments, including data-sharing projects at the Defense and Homeland Security departments.
The Tangled Web of E-Rate
Congress created the E-Rate program as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 in a bid to provide Internet access to schools and libraries that otherwise would not have been able to afford broadband cabling and associated equipment, such as routers and servers. In the years since, the E-Rate program has come under fire partly because of its arcane and incestuous administrative structure.
Agencies close net on illicit use of government IT
When federal agents last month seized the office computer of a NASA official for allegedly trafficking in child pornography on the Internet, a key piece of evidence came from technology developed at the agency to identify that kind of content. A special agent in the computer crimes division in NASA's inspector general's office analyzed data captured by a Web activity monitoring application to build the case against NASA program executive James Robinson.
Eugene Kaspersky | When Criminals Stalk the Internet
Eugene Kaspersky was working for the Soviet Defense Ministry in the late 1980s when his computer became infected with the Cascade virus. His fascination with the malicious program eventually led to commercialization of what became the Kaspersky Anti-Virus tool. Today he's head of antivirus research for Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, which he co-founded in 1997.
Trends in botnets: smaller, smarter
Some recent statistics on e-mail traffic provide more evidence of the trend toward smarter, more targeted online attacks.
Navy adds audio to Lifelines intranet
The Navy is hoping to appeal to generation Y by adding an audio capability to some news stories that appear on its quality-of-life Web site.
Labor's BLS seeks information on converting XML documents into PDF
The Labor Department is seeking industry input on a project to convert statistical information written in XML into Adobe Portable Document Format.
Navy, EDS avert NMCI divorce at least for now
The Navy and EDS Corp. have worked out their differences and will stay married for three more years.
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